Forensic science has become a mainstay of many a TV drama, and it’s just as important in real-life criminal trials. Drawing on biology, chemistry, genetics, medicine and psychology, forensic evidence ...

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CHICAGO -- In a 2004 series "Forensics Under the Microscope," the Chicago Tribune found that a number of forensic disciplines, including some used in police stations and courtrooms every day, relied ...

Once thought to be infallible, the use of unvalidated or improper forensic sciences was a contributing factor in 47 percent of the first 325 DNA exonerations across the country, see The Innocence ...

The open house will include presentation booths with examples of forensic analysis in disciplines like digital evidence, latent evidence, firearm and tool marks, trace evidence, forensic biology (body ...

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.

Forensics is such a part of the culture in the U.S. that almost everyone believes it can without question be used to find criminals. After all, they see forensics at work on TV crime dramas and hear ...

Movies and TV shows depict dazzling uses of forensic sciences in the courts, but reality itself falls far behind. Keith Allan Harward served 33 years in prison after being convicted of rape and murder ...

NASA’s Artemis program is scheduled to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a permanent orbiting laboratory by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, private companies are making significant steps ...

A congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council finds serious deficiencies in the U.S. forensic science system and calls for major reforms and new research. A congressionally ...