The team found that newer reduced-size powders were able to provide clearer, useable fingerprint detail that is vital for identifying the donor. The clarity of ridge detail was found to be at its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Fingerprints have long been a key clue for detectives and crime-stoppers. And now there's a new tool that could soon lift ...

Cameroonian Bienvenu Gael Fouda-Mbanga develops materials from agricultural waste that can clean polluted water and support low-cost forensic investigations. I am a nanomaterials researcher who is ...

A new fingerprinting technique that uses long-lived luminescent nanoparticles provides sharp images of otherwise invisible prints (Anal. Chem. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03003). The method ...

The detection and use of latent fingerprints have been part of the bedrock of forensic science since the 19 th century. Image Credit: Prath/Shutterstock.com In terms of forensic science, there are ...

Researchers led by Bienvenu Gael Fouda-Mbanga at Nelson Mandela University in Gzeberha, South Africa, have found a new form of powder for dusting fingerprints. It enabled them to capture nanoscale ...

ArroGen Group, an integrated advanced forensic solutions company, will unveil its new Fingerprint Molecular Identification™ (FMID) technology Aug. 2-8 at the International Association for ...

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Crime scene investigators are about to get an assist from the land of the pharaohs. New research has shown that a pigment ...