The results are transforming how scholars understand human history. By analysing parchment, researchers are uncovering ...

Short tandem repeat profiling of bathwater showed that DNA quantity jumps sharply after a person is immersed in the water for ...

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 ...

Many forensic techniques developed in crime labs to aid investigators, and research into their limits or scientific validity was never a priority. Except for DNA, no method has been shown to be able ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. When a multi-million dollar trucking case hinges on what ...

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 ...