The two were released from prison earlier this year. Mississippi is hardly alone when it comes to bad forensic science. It now appears that Washington, D.C., may have to retry Angela O’Brien for ...

By that point—once the jury’s heard it—it’s too late to convince them that maybe the science isn’t so infallible.” If judges can’t be trusted to keep spurious forensic analysis out ...

The Forensic Science Service likes to stay out of the limelight. Its offices have no logo or sign. Only a couple of police cars and a few smokers with lab coats hint at what goes on inside the ...

Forensic science is actually not one field, but many. For example, specialists may work in forensic chemistry, forensic biology, forensic odontology, or physicians (MDs or DOs) may work a forensic ...

She’s worked in the forensic science scene since 1999, long before ‘the “CSI” television craze that sparked a mass interest in forensic science and crime scene investigations,’ as she ...

The logo for the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory was unveiled yesterday and winning designer Keith Bernard was awarded at a ceremony at the Ministry of Home Affairs. The entries for the ...

This means there is a need to develop new analytical techniques to enrich forensic science subfields like toxicology, trace evidence, and chemistry. All of these fields work together to create a ...

These are the real women of forensic science, and there are plenty of them. An Associated Press review of accredited forensic science programs in the United States found about 75 percent of ...

In fact, when it comes to wrongful conviction cases (where new DNA evidence proves that someone was innocent), bad forensic science is the second most frequent contributing factor, behind only ...

6 Newly developed MS technologies are beginning to be applied to forensic science. For example, MS imaging techniques can be used to map trace chemicals on fingerprints, hair strands, and tissues.

The authors said in the Journal of Forensic Science that they looked particularly closely at the stains of the left arm to determine consistency between the stains of the hand and the forearm.

The Forensic Science Service, a government-owned company, was shut down in 2012, after the government said it lost £2m each month. But in 2015, the National Audit Office warned standards were ...