#forensic science

In 1888, at least five women were brutally murdered in the impoverished Whitechapel district of London. The sadistic serial killer and his gruesome carnage terrorized the city, yet he was never identified or brought to justice. Now, over 130 years later, the world’s most infamous serial killer Jack

Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News BALTIMORE — A 10-second handshake could transfer a person’s DNA to an object that the person never touched. In handshaking experiments, people who never picked up a knife became the major source of DNA on the handle about 7 percent of the time,

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Among other tasks, forensic artists take a verbal description from a witness and render a sketch that may help identify a criminal. It’s a particularly specific job. Mental Floss talked to three forensic artists (one we’ve featured here before) to get

Authored by Josie Wales via TheAntiMedia.org, A vote on whether to approve a proposal that would allow familial DNA searching in certain criminal cases has been delayed by New York state’s Forensic Science Committee. The controversial proposal has been sent back to a special subcommittee to

Forensic science! Is there anything it can’t do? (Well, you know, aside from, as a fledgling tool for the prosecution in trial law, be easily and accurately explained to a jury in a fashion that would help convict O.J., but I guess that’s water under the bridge. It’s done lots of other cool things