“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emanuela Orlandi is pictured in a photo that was distributed after her presumed kidnapping in 1983. (Credit: CNS file photo.) Listen ROME — The complex process of examining bones and extracting DNA ...

In the 1997 film Gattaca, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) painstakingly brushes his hair, trims his nails, exfoliates his skin, and shaves his face — all to avoid shedding parts of his body carrying his DNA, ...

A new forensic science study sheds light on how the bones of infants and juveniles decay. The findings will help forensic scientists determine how long a young person’s remains were at a particular ...

The largest-ever black-box study on the accuracy of bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA), a widely used forensic technique, has found concerning error rates and ...

For the first time, researchers have identified what appears to be a network of approximately 20 microbes that universally drive the decomposition of animal flesh. The findings have significant ...

Mobile forensic laboratories will be operational in all eight districts of north Bengal soon, ensuring swift collection of ...