When a serious crime such as a murder occurs, the identity of the perpetrator may not be obvious. In whodunit scenarios, where it is unclear who is responsible for wrongdoing, forensic science often ...

Students in Santa Maria High School's forensic science classes recently gained hands-on experience with equipment utilized to identify, document, collect and preserve physical evidence at a crime ...

NPR's Christopher Joyce explains how medical examiners at the Pentagon, the Pennsylvania crash site and in New York are approaching the grim task of matching body parts to identities. Remains from the ...

GARY — Kara Williams really loves science and has always strived to get A's in all of her science courses. The incoming sophomore at Portage High School has been interested in studying medicine in the ...

Peter Neufeld is co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project. Updated March 30, 2015, 6:45 AM Ray Krone was convicted of murder in Phoenix, Ariz., and sentenced to death. The key evidence used ...

Tiny plants, like moss, are easy to overlook. They're often as small as an eyelash, and they tend to grow on the ground in ...

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

The new technique uses a machine learning tool to match prints from different digits belonging to the same person, but forensic scientists disagree on its utility. When you purchase through links on ...

Last year, the US Department of Justice released a report that involved some painful self-examination. The DOJ looked at its own performance when it came to the analysis of hair samples, which have ...