Thursday, September 15, 2005

Revealed: the tooth about victims' ages [/ The Australian, 15 Sep 2005

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Leigh Dayton
"IN true CSI style, experts can now determine when unidentified disaster victims were born by measuring the radioactive carbon in their teeth. The key to the new forensic technique comes courtesy of Cold War nuclear bomb tests, as well as data compiled by Australian researchers. The technique, developed by Swiss and US experts, promises to be particularly useful during investigations of disasters such as aircraft crashes, terrorist attacks and hurricanes."