While the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been spending a lot of time advancing the technology behind forensics, the agency can so only go so far. With all of the ways people can be ...

A digital forensics expert prepares to extract data from a mobile phone. (R. Press/NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published Digital Investigation Techniques: A ...

Crime scene tape across a burial site during a week-long field of study at the "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. (FBI photo) The National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Like the use of forensics at a physical crime scene, digital forensics is the use of science to find critical data in an investigation, extract it from a computer and then analyze it for some purpose.

DNA is often considered the most reliable form of forensic evidence, and this reputation is based on the way DNA experts use statistics. Related To: National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Scientists have tested the accuracy of professional face identifiers, experts who often play a crucial role in criminal cases. The team found that these trained human beings perform best with a ...

Forensic science policy in the U.S. is facing a major restructuring just four years after the first federal attempt to push more science into the field of forensics. In April, Attorney General Jeff ...

Reggie B. Walton has been a federal judge for 11 years, and before that he was a superior court judge, a federal prosecutor, and a public defender. For most of his 38-year career he was convinced he ...

AMES, Iowa – Statisticians and forensic scientists across the country will keep working to put statistics behind the pattern evidence found in bloodstains and fingerprints and the digital evidence ...

For Kristen Frederick-Frost, it all began in the basement of a government science building. In 2014, the curator was searching the archives of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...

When experts compare the DNA left at a crime scene with the DNA of a suspect, they generate statistics that describe how closely those DNA samples match. These match statistics are reliable because ...