Scientists have developed a water-soluble, non-toxic fluorescent spray that makes fingerprints visible in just a few seconds, making forensic investigations safer, easier and quicker. For more than a ...

Fingerprinting is one of the mainstays of forensic science, but despite what we see on TV and in movies, analyzing and matching latent prints is a difficult business and still the province of experts.

Lynn Garcia presents at a Texas Forensic Science Commission meeting to consider recommendations against using bite mark analysis in criminal cases on Feb. 11, 2016, in Austin. The commission ruled ...

Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology and writes on topics from zoology and psychology to herpetology.View full profile Charlie has an undergraduate degree in Forensic Psychology ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by scientists at Maynooth University. For decades, investigators have ...

A hot potato: A team of researchers from Columbia University have used a custom AI model to test if fingerprints are really as unique as forensic and crime literature suggest. The results are ...

“While we don’t know how many fingerprint errors arecaught in the lab and then swept under the rug – or, worse, how manyhave still not been caught and may have resulted in a wrongfulconviction – we ...

Blacksburg, Va. -- The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a ...

Nicole Stanaback ’23 has spent part of her summer taking images of fingerprints as part of an exciting hands-on research project. Her work has given her the opportunity to gain immersive experience ...

How do lawyers view forensic evidence? And how do individuals who make up juries view forensic evidence? Some lawyers complain of a CSI effect, in which jurors expect that every case should involve ...