Fingerprint Uniqueness Challenged: AI Breakthrough Offers Cold Case Resolution Potential

Medicine & Technology Jan 12, 2024

A groundbreaking study challenges fingerprint uniqueness as a new AI offers potential to solve numerous cold cases. Read the article for more details.

DNA Analysis Enables Lifelike Reconstruction of Woman Who Died in the Famed Vasa Warship Wreck

Jul 21, 2023

Initially thought to be a male, the skeleton was found out to belong to a woman, thanks to DNA analysis. Read to learn more.

Novel Forensic Technology Can Accurately Detect DNA in Small Amounts of Sample Even After 72 Hours

Aug 30, 2022

A forensics professor explores a new technology that will make DNA detection in crime scenes easier from a small sample after more than 72 hours with accuracy. Check out this novel method in this article.

Human DNA From the Air Could Now Be Collected

Apr 01, 2021

A British study shows a potential breakthrough in forensics with the ability to detect human DNA from the air.

How a Public DNA Ancestry Website Helped Solve a 40-Year-Old Cold Case

Sep 14, 2020

Jerry Lynn Burns will be serving life in prison without parole after he was found guilty of murder that occurred almost 40 years ago, thanks to DNA samples from an online ancestry service.

Rene Descartes Brain Showed Unusual Bulge Frontal Cortex

May 08, 2017

Scientists have found that the brain of the 17th century philosopher had a bulging frontal cortex, the area that processes the words and its meanings.

‘Living, Glowing Gloves’ Is Crime Scene’s Newest Aid Of Investigation

Mar 03, 2017

Detecting certain chemicals in a crime scene is one of the foundations of crime investigation. Living, glowing gloves aids accurate crime investigation in the future.

Drug Testing for Cocaine Gets Personal

May 15, 2015

Outwitting a drug test just got harder. Instead of relying on blood or urine, which can be switched, researchers at the University of Surrey have devised a technique that uses fingerprints to test for cocaine. And it not only tests whether a person has handled the drug; this new technique confirms cocaine actually entered the body.