Forensic News

Posted February 9, 2012:

• Potential for Incorrect Relationship Identification in New Forensic Familial Searching Techniques
• Barriers to the Use of Fingerprint Evidence in Court Is Unlocked by Statistical Model

Posted January 16, 2012:

• Traditional Physical Autopsies – Not High-Tech 'Virtopsies' – Still the Gold Standard for Determining Cause of Death, Experts Claim

Posted January 13, 2012:

• Software for Analyzing Digital Pathology Images Proving Its Usefulness

Posted January 10, 2012:

• Satellite Imagery Detects Thermal 'Uplift' Signal of Underground Nuclear Tests

Posted December 8, 2011:

• Catching Terrorists: Backpacks, Not the Bombs Inside, Key to Finding DNA

Posted December 7, 2011:

• New Biometric Data Standard Adds DNA, Footmarks and Enhanced Fingerprint Descriptions

Posted October 11, 2011:

• Computer Vision Experts Develop 'Questionable Observer Detector'
• Uncharted Territory: Scientists Sequence the First Carbohydrate Biopolymer

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Scanner Spies Document Secrets
• Public Image of Chemistry: Breaking Chemistry's Bad Rap

Posted September 13, 2011:

• New Technique for Dating Silk

Posted August 28, 2011:

• Hollywood Screenwriters and Scientists: More Than an Artistic Collaboration

Posted July 29, 2011:

• Pioneering Fingermark Technology Uses Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Provide Crime Scene Investigators With Key Extra Details

Posted July 20, 2011:

• Test for Classifying Force Used in Bottle Stabbings: New Study Aids Understanding of Force Required for Creating Injury

Posted July 6, 2011:

• Nano Detector for Deadly Anthrax

Posted June 22, 2011:

• New Technique Yields Troves of Information from Nanoscale Bone Samples

Posted June 14, 2011:

• Forensics: Lamps and Spectrometers Used to Age Bruises Precisely

Posted May 24, 2011:

• New Way to Analyze a Bloody Crime Scene: Chicken Wing Sauce and Trigonometry Brought to Bear on CSI Enigma

Posted May 11, 2011:

• Dusting for Fingerprints -- It Ain't CSI

Posted April 12, 2011:

• Forensics: Developing a Tool for Identification -- Even Using Very Degraded DNA Samples

Posted March 22, 2011:

• Forensics: Overweight People Really Are Big-Boned

Posted March 7, 2011:

• Microbial Forensics Used to Solve the Case of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks

Posted March 3, 2011:

• Method Developed to Match Police Sketch, Mug Shot: Algorithms and Software Will Match Sketches With Mugshots in Police Databases

Posted March 1, 2011:

• Building Trust With Cooperative Witnesses in a Crime Investigation
• New Non-Surgical Autopsy Technique Set to Revolutionize Post-Mortem Practice

Posted February 19, 2011:

• Enhancing Nuclear Security

Posted February 15, 2011:

• Science Alone Does Not Establish Source of Anthrax Used in 2001 Mailings, Report Finds

Posted January 31, 2011:

• Forensic Breakthrough: Recovering Fingerprints on Fabrics Could Turn Clothes Into Silent Witnesses

Posted January 19, 2011:

• Converting 2-D Photo Into 3-D Face for Security Applications and Forensics
• New Technique to Help Catch Sexual Offenders: Scientists Detect Condom Lubricant on Fingermarks for the First Time

Posted January 11, 2011:

• CT Helps Identify Bullet Trajectories

Posted December 1, 2010:

• CT Best at Uncovering Drug Mule Payload, Study Finds

Posted November 30, 2010:

• World's Fastest Camera Takes a New Look at Biosensing

Posted November 24, 2010:

• New Guidance Issued for First Responders Collecting Suspected Biothreat Agents

Posted November 22, 2010:

• Age Estimation from Blood Has Immediate Forensic Application

Posted November 17, 2010:

• Deepwater Horizon: Not Managing Danger, Not Learning from 'Near Misses'

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Seeing the Invisible: New 'CSI Tool' Visualizes Bloodstains and Other Substances

Posted October 21, 2010:

• Towards Better Explosives Detectors

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Forensic Metal Fingerprinting: Simple, Handheld Device Which Can Measure Corrosion on Machine Parts

Posted September 14, 2010:

• Research Will Help ID Bodies Left Behind by Chilean Earthquake, Pinochet Regime

Posted September 2, 2010:

• Listening to Ancient Colors: New Technique May Help Restorers Identify Decades-Old Pigments

Posted August 6, 2010:

• Nuclear Physicists Study 'Magic' Nature of Tin

Posted August 4, 2010:

• Fast Forensic Test Can Match Suspects' DNA With Crime Samples in Four Hours

Posted August 3, 2010:

• Faster DNA Analysis at Room Temperature

Posted July 30, 2010:

• Body of Evidence: New Fast, Reliable Method to Detect Gravesoil

Posted June 28, 2010:

• Making Virtopsies a Reality: New Research Project to Develop Reliable and Cost-Effective Virtual Autopsies

Posted June 7, 2010:

• No Place to Hide: New 360-Degree Video Surveillance System Uses Image Stitching Technology That Is Perfectly Detailed Edge to Edge

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