Nearly two years since two dams failed in Gladwin County, causing a 500-year flood, finally, some answers. A federal forensic engineering team released their final report on the cause and liability ...

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 ...

Dust can be used as a metric for residential and building exposure assessment and source characterization (Lioy et al., 2002a). By using forensic techniques that have been developed by criminologists ...

A new forensic science study sheds light on how the bones of infants and juveniles decay. The findings will help forensic scientists determine how long a young person’s remains were at a particular ...

In the 1997 film Gattaca, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) painstakingly brushes his hair, trims his nails, exfoliates his skin, and shaves his face — all to avoid shedding parts of his body carrying his DNA, ...

A statue of an angel is seen in the Teutonic cemetery at the Vatican March 6, 2015. The Vatican plans to open two tombs in the cemetery July 11 at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi, who ...

Editor’s note: The following case study is excerpted from The 2014 AICPA Survey on International Trends in Forensic and Valuation Services. Although the buzz about Big Data has certainly been growing, ...

NEW DELHI: Citing "lack" of adequate number of forensic laboratories and manpower to handle those facilities, human rights and crime investigation experts have suggested ramping up such labs and ...

Forensic science is being dubbed the 'new media studies' following a boom in lightweight degree courses. Hit TV shows such as Crime Scene Investigation and Silent Witness have fuelled a surge in the ...