Equipped with both standard and emerging technologies such as gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS), Fourier transform ...

Scientists have demonstrated a way for police to quickly and safely test whether a baggie or other package contains illegal drugs without having to handle any suspicious contents directly. The new ...

In an effort to make hair comparison a more useful technique for investigating crimes, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new way to dissolve hair ...

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 ...

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