Bacteria on skin new source of forensic ID

SCIENTISTS have found that the bacteria on your skin are so unique that when you touch an object you leave a bacterial "fingerprint". The research could lead to a new type of forensic identification.

Daggers drawn in the library as Miss Scarlet sees red

A venomous conflict over a computer gives clues to how we shouldn€™t behave.

Coma that never was raises hard questions

FOR one family, it was news of great joy. For many others, it may increase their anxiety about the condition of those they love who have been declared to be in vegetative states. Twenty-three years ago a Belgian man, Rom Houben, was taken to hospital after a car crash. Mr Houben survived, but was unable to move, speak or express any kind of understanding. He was assumed to be in a "permanent neuro-vegetative" condition, and for two decades that remained the medical assessment. But modern tomography has confirmed what his relatives always believed: that Mr Houben understood everything that happened around him, although his paralysis prevented him from showing it. He was conscious. This discovery has resulted in changes in his care, and with treatment by speech therapists and physiotherapists, and the use of a computer keyboard, Rom Houben is now beginning to communicate again. It is an amazing story of human resilience, but it also raises some disturbing questions.

Macdougall Taps Into New Lease On Career

FOR Knights centre Luke MacDougall, a few hours of tapping his fingers on a computer keyboard has ended almost two years of banging his head against a wall.

Keyboard Kids Losing Art Of Writing

MORE than 150,000 students in years 11 and 12 at schools across NSW have a problem. Almost all are skilled users of computer keyboards. Most can easily outperform their elders when it comes to text messaging on their mobile phones.

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The Pen Was Mightier Than The Keyboard

The ubiquity of the computer has relegated good penmanship to the level of scribbles in the margin.

Murder Rap Played Out

CSI: Miami NBN, 8.30pm XZIBIT, the hip-hop artist whose name looks like a word you'd get after headbutting a computer keyboard, is the guest star in tonight's episode.

Delete Spouse - Online Divorce Brings Annulment With A Few Strokes Of The Keyboard

Getting divorced keeps getting easier. These days it is simply a matter of logging on to log off your married life. No meeting with lawyers, no going anywhere near a court room - just you and your computer.

For Penmanship, The Writing's On The Board . . . Er, Wall

As a writer's tool, the keyboard may be lauded as a technological marvel, but it is to blame for the gradual loss of a once-beautiful art.