Like fingerprints, a firearm's discarded shell casings have unique markings. This allows forensic experts to compare casings from a crime scene with those from a suspect's gun. Finding and reporting a ...

For decades, investigators have treated fired bullets and casings as nearly hopeless surfaces for fingerprints, assuming the blast of heat and pressure wiped away the most telling traces of who pulled ...

AMES, Iowa – Like fingerprints, a firearm’s discarded shell casings have unique markings. This allows forensic experts to compare casings from a crime scene with those from a suspect’s gun. Finding ...

Duct tape found at crime scenes can provide forensic scientists with important information, but no standardized protocol for analyzing it has ever existed. Now, Tatiana Trejos, assistant professor in ...

A simplified two-step sample preparation using a premixed sodium chloride and tert-butanol solution matches the accuracy of ...

The forensic science program at Saint Louis University offers students a diverse range of coursework and practical training, equipping them to become the next generation of forensic scientists.

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Allahabad have developed a combined metric and morphological method for reconstructing the ...

Duct tape found at crime scenes can provide forensic scientists with important information, but no standardized protocol for analyzing it has ever existed. Trace evidence is usually invisible to the ...