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Chemistry World
January 15, 2014
Kirsty Muirhead |
Biomarkers leave gender clues at crime scene Scientists in the US have unveiled details of a colorimetric assay that could provide an initial indication of a suspect's gender during the on-scene stages of a forensic investigation.   |
Popular Mechanics
July 27, 2009
Brad Reagan |
The Truth About 4 Common Forensics Methods Room for doubt in deciphering the information in four important types of criminal evidence |
Chemistry World
May 14, 2014
Rebecca Brodie |
Hair elements distinguish ethnicity and gender A new forensic tool, being developed by scientists in Canada, uses a combination of spectroscopy and statistical analysis to determine a person's gender and ethnicity from a thread of head hair. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2011
Holly Sheahan |
Crime scene DNA testing on the move A microfluidic chip that can come up with a DNA profile in less than three hours has been designed by US scientists for use at crime scenes. |
Chemistry World
November 2007
Lisa Melton |
Courtroom Chemistry When analyzing the smallest traces of evidence at a crime scene, chemistry is key. |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Amino acid residues give away bloodstain's age Chemists in the US have developed a quick and simple way to find out how old bloodstains are using natural fluorescence measurements. |
AskMen.com
Bernie Alexander |
5 Things CSI Doesn't Tell You About Forensics With the topic being hotter than ever, let's look at five things that CSI hasn't told you about forensics. |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Lift-Off for Fingerprint Analysis UK researchers have demonstrated a new non-destructive method to collect and chemically interrogate fingerprints left at the scene of a crime. |
Reason
October 2001
Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Sargur N. Srihari |
Beyond C.S.I.: The Rise of Computational Forensics Pattern recognition and other computational methods can reduce the bias inherent in traditional criminal forensics |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Brad Reagan |
CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics Bite marks, blood-splatter patterns, ballistics, and hair, fiber and handwriting analysis sound compelling in the courtroom, but much of the "science" behind forensic science rests on surprisingly shaky foundations. |
Chemistry World
December 1, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Hard questions after litany of forensic failures at US labs At least five high profile cases of serious malpractice at US forensic crime labs have come to light in the last two years. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Simon A. Cole |
Double Helix Jeopardy DNA databases help solve crimes but some say they also aid and abet racial discrimination. Can there be a compromise between the desire for privacy and the need for crime control? |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007
Paul Tolme |
Wildlife CSI: Inside the Case of the Poisoned Meatballs Crime labs investigate illegal killings of endangered species. |
Chemistry World
April 21, 2008
Pete Mitchel |
The hunt for metabolic biomarkers In the largest metabonomics study ever carried out, researchers have discovered strong correlations between individuals' blood pressure and the levels of certain metabolites in their urine. |
Chemistry World
December 16, 2013
Michael Parkin |
1024 samples analysed on a single chip Researchers in Switzerland have developed a microfluidic platform able to measure four protein biomarkers in over 1000 blood samples on a single microfluidic chip. |
PC Magazine
September 28, 2005
David Murphy |
Fighting Crime in Real Time In one technological shot, the NYPD is solving its two biggest problems: paper and perpetrators. |
Popular Mechanics
February 18, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
PC Magazine
September 6, 2005
David Murphy |
Real Time Against Crime While it doesn't quite match the centralized police systems seen in Judge Dredd and Minority Report, the New York Police Department's new $11 million Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) is one of the organization's largest technological leaps ever. |
Chemistry World
September 29, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Forensic crime lab malpractice surfaces in Oregon New revelations that a chemist at an Oregon state forensics lab appears to have tampered with drug evidence have led the state's governor to launch an investigation. |
Information Today
December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
Chemistry World
December 12, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2013 What discoveries caused the biggest buzz in chemistry labs in 2013? |
