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Forensics

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Peter Jolly/Shutterstock (9326460i) Forensic scientist Sue Black examines bones from the crypt at Wardlaw Mausoleum to discover if they are the bones of Simon "The Fox" Fraser the 11th Lord Lovat who was the last man to be beheaded Headless remains exmained to see if they belong to Simon "The Fox" Fraser, Inverness, Scotland - 05 Oct 2017

Health

New 杏吧原创 recommends an unsettling deep dive into forensic science

Esteemed forensic anthropologist Sue Black gives a candid insight into the UK criminal justice system and how it really works in her book An Expert Witness, finds Linda Geddes

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Health

‘Sexome’ microbes swapped during sex could aid forensic investigations

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AI eye technology worn by Julie Hoeflinger, analysing a skull
Technology

Can AI make crime scene investigations less biased?

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Apr 10, 2024 Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking method capable of detecting drug substances from fingerprints lifted from crime scenes, which could provide fresh insights into unsolved cases. The technique is sheath-flow probe electrospray ionization. Supplied by Meg Cox M.A.Cox@lboro.ac.uk

Chemistry

Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left at crime scenes

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Bullet shells on the ground as members of the FBI practice their investigation techniques

Chemistry

Missing bullets can be identified by ricochet residue at crime scenes

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fingerprint or thumbprint set isolated on white

Technology

AI can tell if prints from two different fingers belong to same person

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A group of hands

Chemistry

Men and women’s hands can be distinguished just from their scent

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A woman with her daughter observes the pictures of people who lost their lives during the Guatemalan civil war, as forensic anthropologists from the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) exhume the bodies of one of four mass graves in La Verbena cemetery, in Guatemla City on March 6, 2010, as part of a search to find the 889 people who disappeared during the internal armed conflict (1960-1996). AFP PHOTO/Johan ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Comment

Still Life With Bones review: Harrowing account of exposing genocide

Culture

Technology

AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification

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Humans

Trees and shrubs might reveal the location of decomposing bodies

Botanists are teaming up with forensic anthropologists to work out whether there are detectable changes in the appearance of trees and shrubs growing near decomposing bodies

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Technology

Simulating dead bodies could help calculate an accurate time of death

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Technology

A fingerprint can show if someone has taken cocaine or just touched it

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Mind

Some people are exceptionally good at recognising voices

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Don’t Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

Culture