Forensic scientists both help solve crimes and aid in exonerating innocent people. They use scientific methods ...

Steven Barnes’s truck was muddy. As he pulled up on a September day in 1985 to a roadblock for what he thought was a routine traffic stop, the dirt was close to the last thing on his mind. But the mud ...

Last Friday, 8 May, the new joint Drug Analysis R&D lab of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Netherlands Police was officially opened. Ruth Kloek, heading the LFOX department for forensics ...

On April 16, 2026, a significant step toward strengthening the Philippine justice system was marked by the launch of the ...

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Barilla is a staff attorney at the California Innocence Project and lives in Golden Hill. Forensic science is the application of science to the law. On television, it appears the two work together ...

When a medical examiner needs help identifying a deceased person and determining how that person died, they turn to forensic anthropologists. To aid in the identification of unknown human remains, ...

In 1978, a woman’s body was discovered in Northern Nevada, packed in a garment bag and buried in a shallow grave. Law enforcement actively investigated the crime until all leads were exhausted, and ...

Crime Scene Technician, Criminalist, Forensic Scientist, Crime Scene Investigator, Evidence Technician, Crime Scene Analyst, Latent Print Examiner, Forensic Science Examiner, Forensic Specialist, ...

New biography of Alan R. Moritz traces how forensic science learned to define what it can — and cannot — know.

Forensic pathologists, or medical examiners, are specially trained physicians who examine the bodies of people who died suddenly, unexpectedly, or violently. A forensic pathology practitioner will ...