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, ...

Forensic-dating could end a major loophole in the current global ban on ivory, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Scientists have developed a ...

Forensic speaker recognition encompasses the application of acoustic analysis and statistical evaluation techniques to determine the identity of individuals from voice recordings. This field has ...

Criminals could be caught green-handed thanks to a new process that detects if they fired a gun. The breakthrough forensic method sees gunshot residue (GSR) revealed using perovskite-based ...

In April 2017, a man set out from New York to hike the Appalachian Trail. For 15 months, he made his way south, stopping along the way to socialize with fellow hikers. Then, in July 2018, his dead ...

Previously, lawyers had to go to the police station to access digital police files, according to NFI digital forensics researcher Harm van Beek, who co-founded Hansken and was involved in the ...

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