News tagged with forensic scientist
Probing Question: Is forensic science on TV accurate?
Dec 03, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
1
Turn on the television any evening and you're apt to see a scene such as this: Five crime scene investigators, or CSIs, return to the crime scene at night to follow up on some leads. CSI Kathryn Willows looks ...
Uncovering secrets from beyond the grave
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 05, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
The tools of his trade range from earthmovers and shovels to the finest brushes, surgical tweezers and dentists' mirrors -- and his job is to uncover secrets from beyond the grave.
Search results for forensic scientist
Whose Tattoo Is It Anyway?
Dec 14, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- An infra-red digital camera could be a crucial tool in the fight against crime when trying to identify suspects by their tattoos, according to new University of Derby research.
Researchers Find Fingerprints in Murder Case
Dec 08, 2008 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police and the University of Leicester has helped detectives move a step closer to solving a murder case.
Novel Forensic Technique To Be Applied To Decade-Old Murder Probe
Jan 15, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A pioneering forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police and the University of Leicester is being called on by US force officers to tackle a decade-old murder case.
Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 05, 2009 |
3.9 / 5 (10) |
72
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally ...
Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 30, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...
XBox forensics
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 30, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
3
A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the latest issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law en ...
Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 01, 2009 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...
Fingerprint analysis technique could be used to identify bombmakers
Aug 26, 2008 |
4 / 5 (3) |
0
University of Leicester experts have held discussions with military personnel in Afghanistan following the discovery of new technology to identify fingerprints on metal.
The role of medical expert witnesses: the Goudge Inquiry
Dec 21, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
The role of a medical expert witness needs to be strictly defined and carefully controlled during legal proceedings and physicians need to be aware of their role, states an analysis of the Goudge Inquiry into pediatric forensic ...
NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics
Dec 02, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...
List of search results for forensic scientist
