Los Machos rock shelter and schematic rock art panel Francisco Martínez Sevilla Some 7,000 years ago, prehistoric humans added red ocher paintings to Los Machos, a natural rock shelter in southern ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

Criminals typically leave behind fingerprints at the crime scene. Forensics helps investigators analyse these fingerprints. However, fingerprints left at a crime scene are often partial, distorted and ...

In a case that had challenged the infallibility of fingerprints as a crime-solving tool, a federal judge reversed himself Wednesday and said experts could testify that prints lifted from the scene ...