Is THIS the key to improving eyewitness identification? Placing people who do NOT look the same in police line-ups can improve accuracy by 10%, surprising study reveals US and UK researchers recruited 19,732 volunteers to play the role of eyewitness Each participant was shown a video of a faked crime, followed by a photo line-up The … Read more
A man who lost his mother when he was three spent almost 40 years having no idea how she died – until he placed an advert in his local newspaper. Iain Cunningham, 44, of Nuneaton, only saw photographs of his late mum Irene for the first time when he was 18, but his father Don … Read more
Bizarre ‘lickable screen’ uses gels to simulate any flavor from sushi to gummy candy without users placing a single piece of food in their mouth A ‘lickable screen’ device simulates flavors when placed on the tongue It holds tubes of gels that taste like the five flavors distinguished by the tongue Electrical charges are released … Read more
A charity shop worker who laced a woman’s Canderel sweetener with a cocktail of drugs for two weeks in a bid to poison her has been jailed for four years after calling the police to confess he thought he had ‘murdered’ her. Christopher Connolly crushed up a variety of painkillers, anti-depressants and pills for anxiety … Read more