Crime laboratories around the country are grossly underfunded, lack a scientific foundation, and are compromised by critical delays in analyzing physical evidence, according to a broad study of ...

Representations of forensics on the popular CBS television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation are frequently criticized as unrealistic, but the depictions “are meaningful and should not be easily ...

Against the backdrop of last week's Congressional hearing into the future of forensic science, researchers from the University at Buffalo's (UB) Laboratory for Forensic Odontology Research in the ...

A research team at the University of Wyoming has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a study titled “Improving Communication Between Crime Laboratories and Legal Decision ...

Forensic anthropologists face mental health risks due to chronic exposure to violent death. Vicarious trauma and burnout can arise even without direct experience of violence.

A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for the discipline to adopt a new approach to better account for both the fluidity of ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WJMN) — Somewhere in Marquette County lies a secret facility. “We don’t talk about the exact location of the site,” Dr. Jane Harris, director of the Forensic Research Outdoor Station ...