CSI

Old police styles and new police technology in the US have helped slash Big City crime rates Across America, major cities have experienced a...

New technology : Mobile microwave scanner could detect guns ...

Ingenious new bullet tagging technology Criminals who use firearms may find it much harder to evade justice in future, thanks to a new bull...

NASA 'Shoots' for Crime Investigators with New Technology What do a NASA engineer and a detective have in common? The answer is a ne...

Future Technology With so many advancements in the past 30 years, there is no way to put a limit on where police work will go in the next 30...

For the forensic scientist on the go, Keyence Corp. of Osaka, Japan, offers a 3-D digital microscope that isn’t chained to the crime lab wor...

RSID-Urine: an addition to our existing line of rapid stain identification product, RSID-Urine is in development. For purely technical reaso...

There are two general kinds of improvements that can be expected: The first of these is better techniques applied to existing systems, STRs ...

EPSRC Crime Prevention and Detection Technologies Event:Forensic Science Improved fingerprint recovery from metals such as gun cartridges a...

Here's is the introduction to very interesting article on the state of forensics and how the field needs to be changed for the future(li...

New research out of the United Kingdom is finding that a mans DNA can be linked to his surname using the Y chromosome. The current research...

Everyone outside the toxicology field seems to believe the forensic toxicology laboratory can identify any drug or compound of interest with...

The link in the title of this post is a publication from the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. This group of experts from ...

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digit...

Some future jurors can expect to be dazzled in the courtroom by a remarkable technology making evidence more evident. http://www.youtube.com...

Predicting Future Crime Is it Ethical? The Philadelphia Police Department is experimenting with an advanced computing system that statisti...

Forensic Watermarks in Mobile Devices The most common way to deter illegal distribution of music and movies is through digital rights manag...

Future Cops: Laser-guided GPS to Catch Criminals A suspected felon flees from the Police. Rather than engage him in a dangerous, high-speed ...

The Future of Forensic Science: In 2007, University at Buffalo computer scientist Sargur Srihari, Ph.D., was selected by the National Acad...

PRESENT TECHNOLOGY

Accounting has been around for centuries and has been used to organize one's financial matters. Unfortunately the people who are suppos...

Touch DNA Clears Ramseys -- a forensic scientist explains how technology helps exonerates Ramseys in the Jon Bonnet Ramsey case. http://www....

x-ray vision Engineers Develop Technology To See Through Walls Video: http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0706-seeing_through_walls.ht...

Binghamton University faculty Jessica Fridrich talks about Digital Forensics on FOX News. Research links digital images, cameras Child porno...

This clip demonstrates how footprints can be used by forensics to identify people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlmZZoLGMpM&NR=1

The technology of DNA "fingerprinting" has advanced greatly in the past few years. It is now possible to test smaller pieces of b...

Forensic DNA expert Dr. Arthur Eisenberg, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Human Identification at the University of North Texas...

This article talks about today's forensic examiners and how they look at mobile devices and digital information just like any other piec...

New Fingerprint Test Tells What a Person Has Touched ,Reveals Drug Use and Medical History: method raises privacy issues, and provides brea...

Applying muscle and skin to the bone requires computer tomography (CT) scans of actual living people, which acquire images showing where bo...

The diagram to the left illustrates the hyoid bone in the neck. A broken hyoid bone in decedent can be a sign of manual strangulation. Digi...

In today's age of technology juries almost expect to see state of the art technology employed in both criminal investigations, as well ...

Today, DNA identity testing is widely used in the field of forensics and paternity identification. Other clinical applications are based up...

CSI: X-Ray Fingerprints helps find missing and lost children. Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Also Provides Chemical Information Ordinary invasive...

A forensic artist doing an age progression of a missing person's face has to take into consideration a great deal of information about t...

Today’s computer forensic research is largely divided according to the kind of data being analyzed, rather than the kind of analysis being p...

Short tandem repeat (STR) technology is a forensic analysis that evaluates specific regions (loci) that are found on nuclear DNA. The variab...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) enables researchers to produce millions of copies of a specific DNA sequence in approximately two hours. Th...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYU1Td47PHU This video shows Ronelle Coburn, Master IIHA Hand Analyst and author of Destiny at Your Fingertip...

Mobile Phone Forensics is the retrieval and examination of data found or recovered from mobile phones, PDAs, SIM/USIM cards, computer memor...

Digital Forensics or Computer Forensics? In the past, computer forensic investigations have had PC and Laptop systems as their primary targe...

The polygraph is used as a lie detector by police departments, the FBI, the CIA, federal and state governments, and numerous private agencie...

PAST TECHNOLOGY VIDEO: HOW TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY AND PROVE THAT IT WORKS! MODERN MARVELS: POLICE GEAR - KEVLAR 1975 IN THE PROCESS OF MAKIN...

The Bertillon system "Every measurement slowly reveals the workings of the criminal. Careful observation and patience will reveal the t...

ENTERTAINMENT:CSI FUNNY--(this is TV: NOT real) SOCIETY FORCES TECHNOLOGY? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7-10_CP45Y

Forensic scientists dust fingerprints with magnetic particles to reveal the hidden swirls and curls that differentiate each person on the p...

VIDEO:The ballistics pendulum was invented in 1742 to measure the speed of bullets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNGm4mVWMuY

Forensic Ballistics Forensic ballistics is concerned with analysing bullets and firearms that have been used in crimes. Rifling Identificat...

The premiere computer forensic group in the United States is the FBI's Computer Analysis and Response Team or CART. CART dates back to ...

Computer Forensics is really still in its infancy. Its history only goes back about two decades. Here is a basic time line of the history ...

This video shows the beginning of the polygraph machine and development. The real question is can the machine scientifically measure if some...

An earlier and less successful lie detector or polygraph machine was invented by James Mackenzie in 1902. However, the modern polygraph mac...

Here is an interesting article on digital evidence. It talks about how a floppy disk led investigators to a serial killer. The evolution and...

Before 1990, the majority of U.S. forensic laboratories were associated with law enforcement agencies, yet received a relatively small porti...

DNA Forensics in Marine Ecology This video speaks about rapid mothods for sequencing DNA which has resulted in major advances in our underst...

FOR MOST PEOPLE, "forensic science" means cops and fingerprints and DNA analysis. All of that is still true, but these days forens...

There are records of fingerprints being taken many centuries ago, although they weren't nearly as sophisticated as they are today. The a...

Fingerprint identification has been around for a long time. It has nearly a century of court acceptance in the United States. Yet, in the af...

Video by UF News and Public Affairs, from the University Archives in the UF Libraries. This video is showing a forensic artist in 1984 who d...

Not only has technology changed the science of forensics but it has also created a new forensics field, computer forensics. Michael Anderson...

Modern Marvels Video: Police Gear-Evidence Tech: Fingerprinting This video from the History Channel explains some early methods of obtaining...

"Forensic art is a law enforcement artistic technique used in the identification, apprehension, or conviction of wanted persons. Forens...

Dr. Alec Jeffreys is holding a copy of the first DNA fingerprint profile. In 1985, Jeffrey introduced the idea of the DNA fingerprint while ...

Not all forensics is a search of the crimscene. When people are involved the need for Forensic Psychology becomes center stage. Some of th...

Here I have a relatively short timeline showing the beginnings of forensics. The earliest known use of medical knowledge to a crime situati...