Artificial intelligence can be used to provide a more precise time of death, which could be crucial in murder investigations. The method was developed by researchers at Linköping University and the ...

A digital forensics expert prepares to extract data from a mobile phone. (R. Press/NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published Digital Investigation Techniques: 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 ...

For decades, investigators have treated fired bullets and casings as nearly hopeless surfaces for fingerprints, assuming the blast of heat and pressure wiped away the most telling traces of who pulled ...

In the 1993 comedy classic “Groundhog Day,” actor Bill Murray plays a snarky TV weatherman named Phil Connors who is doomed to relive the same Feb. 2 day—over and over again no matter what he does to ...

Skin cells and their DNA varies between individuals, but new data shows that some groups of people have higher variability in their cell deposits. The South Australian forensic science researchers are ...

MINSK, 17 May (BelTA) - A delegation from Belarus’ State Committee of Forensic Examinations visited the Academy of Forensic Science of the Justice Ministry of China in Shanghai on 16 May to study ...

The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that firearms experts will no longer be able to testify that a bullet was fired from a particular gun. The decision is likely the first by a state supreme ...

The Forensic View deals, of course, with issues of forensic psychology. But what exactly does the term “forensic” mean, anyway? What are the implications of that term for psychology? Anyone who's ever ...