Tag: Forensic science
Your unique body odor could identify who you are and provide...
Chantrell Frazier, Framingham State University; Kenneth G. Furton, Florida International University, and Vidia A. Gokool, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Juries that don’t understand forensic science can send innocent people to...
Devon LaBat, Florida International University; Deborah Goldfarb, Florida International University; Jacqueline R. Evans, Florida International University, and Nadja Schreiber Compo, Florida International...
Six eyewitnesses misidentified a murderer – here’s what went wrong in...
Laura Smalarz, Arizona State University
On the strength of six eyewitnesses’ lineup identifications, Lydell Grant was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for the...
Overloaded morgues, mass graves and infectious remains: How forensic pathologists handle...
Ahmad Samarji, Phoenicia University
Editor’s note: Most scientists and doctors in the coronavirus crisis are working to save the living. Those in the field of...
Privacy concerns don’t stop people from putting their DNA on the...
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University
Americans are embracing the use of DNA databases to solve crimes.
Over the past year DNA submitted to ancestry websites have...
How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system
Jessica S. Henry, Montclair State University
Television crime dramas like “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and its many spin-offs have fostered the popular belief that forensic...
Is a polygraph a reliable lie detector?
Jessica Gabel Cino, Georgia State University
Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who’s accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, released...
Blood in your veins is not blue – here’s why it’s...
Marisia Fikiet, University at Albany, State University of New York and Igor Lednev, University at Albany, State University of New York
Whenever you see blood...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
