To use this evidence, investigators typically must grow the larvae until adulthood in a laboratory setting and then identify ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research has suggested that more work is needed to show that digital forensic methods are robust enough to stand-up to interrogation in a court of law. Research carried out at the University of York ...

Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. They might smash, shoot, submerge or cook their phones, but forensics experts can often retrieve the evidence anyway.

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 ...

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 ...

The Oregon Legislature passed a bill creating a legal pathway for those convicted on the basis of discredited "junk science." ...

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 ...

The Secretary of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Mr. Okwudiri Oparaodu, has called for stronger forensic investigation capabilities to enable the commission to ...