In April 2017, a man set out from New York to hike the Appalachian Trail. For 15 months, he made his way south, stopping along the way to socialize with fellow hikers. Then, in July 2018, his dead ...

A digital forensics expert prepares to extract data from a mobile phone. (R. Press/NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published Digital Investigation Techniques: A ...

Criminals could be caught green-handed thanks to a new process that detects if they fired a gun. The breakthrough forensic method sees gunshot residue (GSR) revealed using perovskite-based ...

Many forensic techniques developed in crime labs to aid investigators, and research into their limits or scientific validity was never a priority. Except for DNA, no method has been shown to be able ...

The ever-increasing number of deaths along the U.S.-México border and the diversification in the demographic characteristics of the Latin American migrants, who perish in this region, demand new ...

Criminals sometimes damage their mobile phones in an attempt to destroy evidence. They might smash, shoot, submerge or cook their phones, but forensics experts can often retrieve the evidence anyway.

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 ...

Forensic speaker recognition encompasses the application of acoustic analysis and statistical evaluation techniques to determine the identity of individuals from voice recordings. This field has ...

WASHINGTON -- A congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council finds serious deficiencies in the nation's forensic science system and calls for major reforms and new research.

In the 1993 comedy classic “Groundhog Day,” actor Bill Murray plays a snarky TV weatherman named Phil Connors who is doomed to relive the same Feb. 2 day—over and over again no matter what he does to ...