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Richard Stroud is the nation's chief medical examiner for wildlife, and he's getting a state-of-the-art lab. Poachers beware.

Police sketches from eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. The question is, Will "DNA sketches" be any better?

In the dark and chatty world of avatars and assumed identities, this cybercop is a virtual Sybil, trolling for creeps and thieves.

The killing of a young child led investigators to this problem: Can the single-celled life in water tell where the water is from?

Blood flies, and leaves a tale. But it takes an expert like Paulette Sutton to sort truth from fiction in spatter language.

GE's Evolution does 0-60 in 45 seconds, unloaded. Braking is a different story: A full-on panic stop takes half a mile.

Space-launched darts that strike like meteors

How much has technology really changed our daily lives? We asked a highly wired writer to spend 10 days in the big city living with the technology of 50 years ago. No Web, no cell, no laptop, no ATM card.

We asked a writer to notice and decode the science claims he heard on a typical day. they averaged one every 10 minutes. And they weren’t very scientific.

999 Dollars for Knowing Where to Bang

Days with Two Sunrises and Your Dinner in a Cup

With the flood of in-car GPS navigation systems available today, you'll never have to ask for directions again.

...and other rallying cries from the fringes of the final frontier.

Bogus science and health claims are rampant--and these self-styled vigilantes are after the perps.

It's a moment fraught with exquisite anticipation and dread–the moment when your car's true power is laid bare for all to see.

Last July, 9-year-old Alex Everett received his first shot of synthetic human growth hormone--an injection he will get every night for eight years. Alex is not sick--he is short. Should we be treating stature as a medical condition?

Souped-up rovers should boost extraterrestrial research.

No one knows how to stop it, but at least you can slow it down—the latest tech for protecting your inbox.

Don't let the old-fashioned lines of this beauty fool you: Half a million buys you a boat that's tech-packed and joystick-steered.

Needles that don't hurt.