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 ...

“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 ...

A wrongful murder conviction exposed how unprepared courts are to evaluate video evidence. AI has made that crisis impossible ...

Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded, lack a scientific foundation, and are compromised by critical delays in analyzing physical evidence, according to a broad study of ...

Cleaning blood from a violent crime scene can complicate crime scene investigations, particularly when accurate evidence is required for a conviction in court. A new study led by Flinders University, ...

SAN MARCOS, TexasSAN MARCOS, Texas — For more than five weeks, a woman’s body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a ...

A German study finds that Google Glass can be efficient for acquiring images in forensic medicine, but the image quality was inferior compared to a commonly used digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) ...

No other credible source has reached the same conclusion. The Seattle Police Department says its investigation into Cobain's death remains closed.

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 ...