Forensic examiners can now determine whether a fingerprint was placed on a piece of paper before or after any text was printed on it. The revolutionary technique could help resolve cases of fraud, for ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists. Dr. Eithne Dempsey, and her recent Ph.D. student ...

On March 24, 1994, a man walking his dog in Albany, Georgia, found the body of a woman named Angela Sizemore, who had been raped and murdered and left in the front seat of her SUV behind an apartment ...

A pioneering new test that can recover fingerprints from ammunition casing, once thought nearly impossible, has been developed by two Irish scientists. Dr Eithne Dempsey, and her recent PhD student Dr ...

Forensic science has long held that fingerprints are singular identifiers, unique to each finger and each individual. This assumption has formed the backbone of global law enforcement, identity ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

Researchers at Maynooth University have achieved a forensic milestone by revealing fingerprints on fired bullet casings using a safe electrochemical process. The method uses mild voltage and non-toxic ...

A hot potato: A team of researchers from Columbia University have used a custom AI model to test if fingerprints are really as unique as forensic and crime literature suggest. The results are ...

Fingerprints are a widely used biometric marker in both civil identification and forensic investigations. This study aimed to examine variations in fingerprint patterns and their association with ABO ...

The discovery of forensic evidence (e.g. weapons) during forensic underwater investigations has seen an increasing trend. To date, small particle reagent (SPR) has been one of the routinely used ...