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 ...

Finding a fingerprint on the casing of a fired bullet was once a nearly impossible task. But scientists have at last achieved a breakthrough. Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland have now ...

One of the most common procedures undertaken by crime scene investigators is dusting for fingerprints, but while the tradition has endured as a core standard of police work, a promising new method ...

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 ...

Engineers have built a new AI that shatters a long-held belief in forensics -- that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person are unique. It turns out they are similar, only we've been ...

HONG KONG - The research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a system for three-dimensional (3D) fingerprint identification by adopting ground breaking 3D fingerprint ...

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 ...

Forensic audit using advanced AI reveals the objective logic of the soul, offering a user manual for consciousness ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each individual's fingerprints are unique—the tiny loops, ridges and whorls on the epidermis are even more distinctive than a person's DNA and are one of the best ways we have of identifying a person ...