Generative AI has opened medical record forgery to a much wider pool of bad actors. Defense requires layers—AI, human in the ...

SAN MARCOS (AP) - For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within ...

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 ...

A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both the fluidity of ...

A proof-of-concept study from North Carolina State University finds that the density of bones in the skull affects the size of bullet holes in the skull. The finding is useful for law enforcement ...

A new academic study examines whether forensic accountants exercised due diligence in investigating the corporations that issued their certifications prior to obtaining their certifications.

Bones are a living record that constantly change over a person's life. Forensic anthropologists are tasked with deciphering clues from bones, and their study of skeletal remains aids in the ...

A new study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences suggests the role medical examiners play in the criminal justice system is far more subjective than commonly thought. It also suggests their analysis ...

Emanuela Orlandi is pictured in a photo that was distributed after her presumed kidnapping in 1983. (Credit: CNS file photo.) Listen ROME — The complex process of examining bones and extracting DNA ...

New research offers key insights into how blood stains cotton fabrics, allowing investigators to gather additional information from forensic evidence. “When blood strikes fabric, it leaves a stain,” ...

Universities.com rated the University of New Haven as the #1 Forensic Science Program in the U.S. For Morgan Korzik ’22 M.S., it was the stories he’d heard about his great grandfather, a Chicago ...