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 ...

Despite the vast quantity of fingerprint treatments currently available, examiners continue to be frustrated by a number of ‘difficult’ substrates. Multi-coloured and densely patterned backgrounds, ...

Here’s something that they don’t tell you in the TV cop shows: although fingerprints may be present at a crime scene, only about 10 percent of the prints found are of good enough quality for use in ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Experts from various sectors now contribute to conservation science; even if you are a forensic scientist, you could play an important role in ...

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 ...

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 ...