Many of the "forensic science" methods commonly used in criminal cases and portrayed in popular television crime dramas have never been scientifically validated and may lead to unjust verdicts, ...

Over the course of two days at last month's Computer Security Congress, which was organized by la Coordinación de Seguridad de la Información/UNAM-CERT, researchers ...

Audio forensics is an increasingly critical field in modern investigative science, exploiting the unique characteristics of electrical network frequency (ENF) signatures embedded in digital recordings ...

This means there is a need to develop new analytical techniques to enrich forensic science subfields like toxicology, trace evidence, and chemistry. All of these fields work together to create a ...

After a brush with burglars, an Australian scientist has developed a new technique to 'dust' for fingerprints, creating a solution that makes fingerprints glow under blacklight. Claire Reilly was a ...

LU forensics taps into new techniques BEAUMONT - Forensic investigators may soon add two new techniques for examining a gun crime, thanks to the savvy of Lamar University chemistry professors. Their ...

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The White House’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said in a report released Tuesday that widely used forensic techniques may not pass scientific muster, and should be reviewed for ...

A forensic scientist testified in a Riverhead courtroom Wednesday that the scientific methods used to link DNA from degraded hair samples found with the remains of several Gilgo Beach homicide victims ...