Many of the "forensic science" methods commonly used in criminal cases and portrayed in popular television crime dramas have never been scientifically validated and may lead to unjust verdicts, ...

Trial judges should be more skeptical of forensic methods that don’t pass scientific muster, a panel of legal experts told judges at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference on Tuesday. SAN FRANCISCO (CN ...

Chemicals become weapons when used deliberately to inflict harm on individuals or groups of people. Chemical forensics makes it possible to get on the perpetrator’s trail even with a small sample. In ...

Research has suggested that more work is needed to show that digital forensic methods are robust enough to stand-up to interrogation in a court of law. Research carried out at the University of York ...

One of the biggest challenges of forensics investigations into insider theft is that the markers computer forensics investigators use to detect most attacks are typically not present in insider cases ...

Forensic speaker recognition encompasses the application of acoustic analysis and statistical evaluation techniques to determine the identity of individuals from voice recordings. This field has ...

India is bolstering its fight against cybercrime with a comprehensive plan for 2026. The Centre is reportedly training ...

Damaged mobile phones are still filled with plenty of useful data, according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of the U.S. Department of ...

In the 1993 comedy classic “Groundhog Day,” actor Bill Murray plays a snarky TV weatherman named Phil Connors who is doomed to relive the same Feb. 2 day—over and over again no matter what he does to ...

Many of the 'forensic science' methods commonly used in criminal cases and portrayed in popular police TV dramas have never been scientifically validated and may lead to unjust verdicts, according to ...