Forensic officers receive training in blood patterns and crime scene photography, as well as new equipment to assist in investigations

Set up a classroom crime scene and teach your students about forensic science. Here are some ideas and tips how to and apply it to all ages!

Forensic linguists are called as expert witnesses in court cases to provide linguistic analysis of legal documents and other forms of oral and documentary evidence -- including emojis.

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explains the blend of chemicals used by pens to leave their indelible marks.

Pufferfish: kind of cute, right? Also kind of poisonous. They hit the news this week after a Japanese supermarket accidentally sold five...

Ever wondered how much money a forensic psychologist makes? This ultimate guide covers the major career choices, salary and more for forensic science jobs.

As a new exhibition investigates the evolution of the forensic sciences, Nick Clark pores over the unparalleled contribution of the visionary 19th-century criminal profiler Alphonse Bertillon

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning sniffs out an answer to the question of whether air fresheners actually ‘kill’ bad odors

It’s not easy interviewing an interviewer. They know all the tricks. They can deflect your question, or turn the tables on you, or faux-innocently ignore what you’re asking. Louis Theroux is a master at this. Speaking over the phone, the 48-year-old is charming and thoughtful, yet he also gives answers that, by and large, only scratch the surface.

Ever wondered what compounds help kitchen cleaners keep your kitchen surfaces bacteria free? Or about the compounds that help antiseptic creams do their...

Australian law enforcement has started solving missing persons and unidentified remains cases using official police access to private genealogy databases, which combined, hold the DNA records of millions of people around the world.

Facebook is making a difficult job a little easier for coroners.

María Pilar Abel Martínez says her mother had an affair with the artist before she was born.

The authors write: "In Michigan, 22 percent of those exonerated were convicted based on flawed forensic evidence"

A particular bodily fluid featured in the political news earlier this week, which got me thinking about the chemical causes behind the colours of...

Frances Glessner Lee is known to many as the "mother of forensic science" for her work training policemen in crime scene investigation in the 1940s and 50s using uncanny dollhouse crime scenes.

Forensic scientists have reconstructed the face of a 9,000-year-old female teenager based on a skull archaeologists found in a Greek cave. Experts claim that the reconstructed face reveals how much our facial features have changed over the millennia.

The Shroud of Turin, said by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus, is likely a fake, as a new study using modern forensics techniques finds its bloodstains are completely unrealistic.

Low reliability, high rate of false alarms in denim-matching forensics

One in five women in England and Wales has been the victim of a sexual offence or attempted offence.

You’ve probably seen crime shows like CSI and America’s Most Wanted, where artists work with victims to create a drawing that helps identify a…

Drug testing was in the news on Friday – though this time it wasn’t the usual sports doping headlines, but instead news of the clinical trial of a drug...

The FBI and other agencies have asked for — and been denied — five users' data, according to a new report.

The fallout over the unethical business ties of certain members of the Whitney Museum of American Art's board of trustees continues unabated. Forensic Architecture's decision to join seven other exhibitors in withdrawing from the prestigious 2019 Whitney Biennial exhibition comes as the art...

The new date places Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from South Africa as an older relative of Lucy, a 3.18-m-year-old Australopithecus afarensis.

On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 children at a Connecticut elementary school, as well as 6 school staffers, his mother, and himself. Within two weeks, the Connecticut Medical Examiner commissioned a group of geneticists to screen Lanza’s DNA.

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According to Dr. Janet Davey from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in Australia, some ancient Egyptians were naturally blonde or red haired. Her research has brought an answer to an intriguing question connected with Egyptian mummies and the effects of the mummification process.

Explore whether becoming a FBI profiler is a realistic career aspiration.

Science may have found a way for Christians to finally find an answer to the age-old question of how Jesus Christ looks like.

A forensic artist has recreated the face of a woman alive 3,700 years ago

Today's graphic looks at science in general, rather than just chemistry. It's in a similar vein to the Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science posted last...

Remotely Interviewing children becomes more important as coronavirus spreads

The pioneering work done by Professor Sue Black’s team at the University of Dundee leads the field

“In veterinary forensics, medical expertise is used to gather evidence applicable in court cases or other investigations that involve animals,” says Dr. Adam Stern, a veterinary pathologist at the University of Illinois. He coauthored "Veterinary Forensics: Investigation, Evidence Collection and Expert Testimony."