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A convergence of trends in assessing the future risk of reoffending could result in morally questionable inputs into the criminal process. Advances in the analysis of DNA and increases in the availability of information about people gleaned from social media might allow for new inferences to be drawn against offenders during the sentencing process. We explore how developments in forensic DNA analysis methods and law enforcement DNA databases in conjunction with information about an offender's developmental environment could lead the prosecution to postulate a high risk of recidivism and t...

In the mini-series “Defending Jacob,” murder genes were used as evidence in criminal cases. A murder gene is a term used for a link or similarity in the genes of criminals to see if there is something in their DNA that made them more likely to kill. But do these really exist? To what extent...

We considered children, but are still only a family of two. We’ve decided that’s a good thing. But sometimes I wonder if that’s enough. If I’m enough.

Bees play a big role in our world as pollinators, but are they endangered? How does a real ‘hive mind’ work? And what’s a waggle dance?

The research, published in BJ Open, found that after an initial dip in average levels of mental health at the beginning of lockdown, young adults’ mental health then returned to pre-pandemic levels and remained resilient for the rest of the measured