This article tells the AFIS story -- where it started and what it does -- while the second part, appearing in the February issue, will examine the need to share data among agencies and vendors, the ...

The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a home in the middle of the night and, when ...

Fingerprinting is one of the mainstays of forensic science, but despite what we see on TV and in movies, analyzing and matching latent prints is a difficult business and still the province of experts.

Los Angeles police officials said Tuesday that the number of cases with unanalyzed fingerprint evidence has more than doubled in the last two years, hampering efforts to solve thousands of burglaries, ...

Fingerprints that used to escape detection could soon help point to the killer. Using a field portable system investigators at crime scenes will be able to detect latent prints on human skin. The ...

Law enforcement officers in Oklahoma now have new ways to catch criminals. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation introduced cutting-edge technology that will allow investigators to detect ...

This piece originally appeared on Pacific Standard. Scientist Nancy Knight documented snowflakes in 1988 while studying cirrus clouds for the National Center for Atmospheric Research. During a ...

As a forensic chemist, I was fascinated by “Covering Up For A Clear View,” on using graphene to reveal the structure of water on a surface (C&EN, Sept. 6, page 11). The most common and abundant ...