An experimental new forensic spray allows latent fingerprints to be made visible in just 10 seconds, plus it doesn't require the use of any messy powders. What it does incorporate, however, is a ...

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Lindsey Olson likened the process of applying fingerprinting dust onto a piece of evidence to a “spinning ballerina,” as she used her fingertips to twirl a thin, black brush. Its long, soft threads ...

For 30 years, the Lenexa company has helped law enforcement protect crimes scenes and crack cases with products for lifting fingerprints and collecting DNA evidence. Leawood CPA firm sells to ...

Detectives Rex Goot and Craig Damon demonstrate lifting fingerprints to Persell Middle School JUMP students as part of their forensic unit this summer. Submitted photos “You can see these fingerprints ...

So much for a key component of criminal forensics. “New research … outlined new ways to attack Android devices to extract user fingerprints,” ZDNet reports. “The threat is for now confined mostly to ...

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 ...

FIRST PHOTO: Maui High School senior Norlito Ranches, 16, uses tape to lift fingerprints from a bottle at a simulated crime scene after fellow Maui High senior Leejae Daguio, 16, dusted to locate the ...

A new fingerprinting technique could potentially detect the diet, race and sex of a suspected criminal, according to new research published in the August edition of the journal Analytical Chemistry.