A 20-year-old forensic science student admitted that he murdered a woman in an Airbnb he had fitted out with plastic sheeting ...

Forensic examination of human remains found around the funerary complexes of Ancient Egyptian kings has uncovered evidence that they belonged to servants who were sacrificed when the monarchs died, ...

A forensic study of 46 ancient Egyptian skulls found potentially lethal head injuries in 18, supporting the theory that some ...

A study of 8,237 Argentines genotyped at 22 autosomal STR loci shows that forensic parameters remain stable at modest sample ...

Every day, forensic examiners compare pieces of evidence (e.g., fingerprints, bullets) and decide whether they “match”—i.e., came from the same source (e.g., person, gun). These decisions hold obvious ...

Deep in the rainforests and coastal villages of Malaysian Borneo, a quiet scientific milestone has been reached. Researchers ...

For the first time, researchers have identified what appears to be a network of approximately 20 microbes that universally drive the decomposition of animal flesh. The findings have significant ...

Forensic science is critical to an effective justice system, which in turn is a pillar of a civil society. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes chemistry as a foundational and integral ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...