Forensic fingerprint analysis has been based on the unique pattern of ridges on every finger for over a hundred years. A ...

Groundbreaking forensic technology could finally make it possible to recover bullet fingerprints previously considered nearly impossible to identify accurately.

Fingerprints can tell a lot more about people — what they’ve touched, what they’ve eaten, what drugs they’ve taken — than just their identities. Now, a new analytic tool could make it easier to spot ...

The intricate patterns of swirls on human fingers may do more than help cops nab crooks. A study online January 29 in Science helps crack the case of fingerprints’ real job: Epidermal ridges, ...

A home burglary has led to a scientific breakthrough that has the potential to overhaul more than a century of established forensic practice, changing the way police dust for fingerprints at a crime ...

“While we don’t know how many fingerprint errors are caught in the lab and then swept under the rug – or, worse, how many have still not been caught and may have resulted in a wrongful conviction – we ...

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