A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Many of the 'forensic science' methods commonly used in criminal cases and portrayed in popular police TV dramas have never been scientifically validated and may lead to unjust verdicts, according to ...