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How can we find buried bodies? Ground penetrating radar is one solution - but it’s not always effective. Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) offers a very sensitive alternative.
Police in Toronto say they’ve found the remains of at least six people in the midst of their investigation into alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur. Here’s what goes on in such investigations.
Wild chimpanzees are hard to find, but their DNA – left-behind genetic traces – are opening up a new way of studying them.
Applying actual science to forensic investigations can yield substantially different results from the findings of standard methods in the field.
‘Volcano forensics’ involves a mixture of modern day monitoring and analysis of past eruptions. Geologists use volcanic rocks as a kind of time capsule to assess what happened previously.
Fingerprinting is a valuable police tool for tracking down suspects, but it’s not perfect. However, we can reduce the risk of any mistaken identity if we work within the limits of fingerprinting.
DNA evidence has a profile which it might not deserve.
50 years after the Moors Murders, UK police are still hoping to find a missing body. And scientists are working hard to help.
We live in a probabilistic world. The courts need to catch up – and start training juries in statistics.
Forensics has a way to go before it’s a mature, academic science. Attorney General Jeff Sessions just terminated an independent commission charged with helping it get there.
How does the police decide where to send dive teams to search for bodies? They ask scientists for advice.
Mathematicians make a splash with new theory that could lead to breakthroughs in 3D printing, climate science and forensics.
Scientific crime scene analysis is more popular in India’s pulp fiction than in real life investigations.
New ways of using forensic science in anthropology have been developed to advance our understanding of the past.
Is forensic science an oxymoron? A new White House report suggests there are major issues with many of the forensic disciplines used to convict defendants of crimes in the U.S.
Researchers have created a new kind of ‘drugalyser’ that’s less likely to give false positive readings.
Your memory of an event can be manipulated – and miscarriages of justice can follow.
Microsoft Kinect’s cheap sensors could create low-cost 3D computer models of crime scenes.
A US report has cast doubt on a range of techniques commonly used to secure criminal convictions, such as identification using bite marks, hair strands or footwear.
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Associate professor of Forensic Science, Murdoch University
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Visiting Scholar, University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD), University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Adjunct professor, Murdoch University
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Forensic Science, University of Hull
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Forensic Pathologist at Monash University and Deputy Director, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
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Reader, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Surrey
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Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Archaeological Science, Flinders University
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Reader in Forensic Geoscience, Keele University
