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How Dust Could Help Solve Crimes

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ou can put back anything but dust,” says fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in the British TV drama . “Dust is eloquent.” We may know dust as a substance of little consequence. It’s infinitesimal, scattered by the winds of time, accumulating in snarls under the bed or neglected corners of our living rooms. But dust has fascinated criminologists and sleuths for over a century due to the way it moves and the elemental

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