D.C. is increasing its investment in public safety, announcing additional funding for ballistics testing at the city’s forensics lab to connect bullet casings from shooting scenes to the person who ...

SAN ANTONIO – Forensic scientists are getting hands-on with guns and bullets inside the firearms section at the Bexar County Crime Lab. The firearms lab gets thousands of guns and ammunition each year ...

View of the exhibition of Forensic Architecture’s Center for Contemporary Nature at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle (photo by Bartosz Górka; image courtesy Centre for Contemporary ...

Matching a bullet to the gun from which it was fired is often the key component in solving crimes. But new technology aims to improve future forensic examinations of crimes involving guns. “Firearm ...

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) is an interdisciplinary forensic technique that utilises principles of fluid dynamics and high-resolution imaging to reconstruct the events of a crime. The approach ...

Researchers at Maynooth University have achieved a forensic milestone by revealing fingerprints on fired bullet casings using a safe electrochemical process. The method uses mild voltage and non-toxic ...

In a significant breakthrough, scientists at Maynooth University in Ireland have developed a new test that successfully recovers fingerprints from spent bullet casings. This achievement, often ...

On February 14, 1929, gunmen working for Al Capone disguised themselves as police officers, entered the warehouse of a competing gang, and shot seven of their rivals dead. The St. Valentine's Day ...

In general, bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) refers to the collection and subsequent forensic analysis investigation of the size, shape, and distribution patterns of bloodstains found at a crime ...