Crime scene tape across a burial site during a week-long field of study at the "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. (FBI photo) The National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

As part of “From Sample to Verdict,” LCGC International sat down with Ed Sisco and Sarah Shuda, Research Chemists at NIST, to discuss the work that their groups are conducting that are helping to ...

As I mentioned in previous columns, there’s a new set of draft documents from the Computer Security Resource Center of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition, SP 800-86 ...

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science has placed two new standards covering firearm and toolmark analysis, the forensic discipline used in the investigation of gun ...

The U.S. Senate designated September 14-20 as National Forensic Science Week to spotlight forensic scientists' impact on ...

AMES, Iowa – Statisticians and forensic scientists across the country will keep working to put statistics behind the pattern evidence found in bloodstains and fingerprints and the digital evidence ...

Despite the popularity of cop shows about investigators bringing criminals to justice based on a few fingernail clippings and a dropped tissue, the track record of forensic evidence is spotty at best.

Scientists used UV light and glow powder to study the way small amounts of drug residue get spread around a forensic chemistry lab when analysts test seized drugs. Their study addresses safety ...