A victim might not care if a murderer is a smoker or a vegetarian. But having such knowledge could help police solve a case. Details like this could one day be at their fingertips if a new ...

Fingerprint recognition and enhancement remain at the forefront of biometric research, addressing the persistent challenges in reliably identifying individuals from often degraded or latent prints.

Four years after scuttling a study into the reliability of fingerprinting, the research arm of the Justice Department is seeking answers to fundamental questions about the grandfather of forensic ...

Dust off the history of forensic science and you’ll find Henry Faulds, a Scottish physician who in the late 19th century discovered that powder could make the perspiration from fingertips visible, and ...

A federal judge who stunned the legal community earlier this year by forbidding the use of a fingerprint expert’s opinion in a Philadelphia murder trial reversed his decision Wednesday. Noting that a ...

In fraud and bot detection, people usually think of fingerprinting as the classic browser or device fingerprint. This comes ...