Every day, forensic examiners compare pieces of evidence (e.g., fingerprints, bullets) and decide whether they “match”—i.e., came from the same source (e.g., person, gun). These decisions hold obvious ...

Researchers at Murdoch University have developed a forensic intelligence tool which could help police link the victims of ...

Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded, lack a scientific foundation, and are compromised by critical delays in analyzing physical evidence, according to a broad study of ...

Bones are a living record that constantly change over a person's life. Forensic anthropologists are tasked with deciphering clues from bones, and their study of skeletal remains aids in the ...

“Apparently, people will watch forensics seven nights a week,” shrugs David Caruso, star of the hit show CSI: Miami, a spinoff of the hit show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Shilling for the series ...

A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both the fluidity of ...

A proof-of-concept study from North Carolina State University finds that the density of bones in the skull affects the size of bullet holes in the skull. The finding is useful for law enforcement ...

Universities.com rated the University of New Haven as the #1 Forensic Science Program in the U.S. For Morgan Korzik ’22 M.S., it was the stories he’d heard about his great grandfather, a Chicago ...

Dr. Henry Wheeler, a prominent pioneer physician in Grand Forks and the city's onetime mayor, always claimed he owned the skeleton of an outlaw that he killed named McClelland "Clell" Miller. He kept ...

Kate Spradley, an assistant professor at Texas State University, looks over the skeletal remains of Patty Robinson at the school's “body farm,” officially the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility, ...