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Modern forensics solves Stone Age murder mystery after 33,000 years

A forensic analysis of a 33,000-year-old skull finds a clear explanation for the mysterious pattern of fractures preserved in the bone: it was murder

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Trace stains can be difficult to identify

Health

Bacteria could identify month-old suspicious stains at crime scenes

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Jane Bock

Life

Crime-fighting botanist takes down murderers using plants

Features

Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory

Humans

Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory

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Forensic sampling

Health

Police can now use millions more people's DNA to find criminals

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An open grave

Technology

Pulses of laser light could find murder victims in unmarked graves

News

Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you

Humans

Your personal cloud of microbes can be used to identify you

News

Somerton Man artwork

Humans

Who was the Somerton Man? Solving Australia's coldest case

Features

Joseph James DeAngelo

Technology

Serial killer suspect identified using DNA family tree website

News

Police forensic team

Technology

Austerity has put UK forensic labs in crisis and justice at risk

Thousands of criminal cases are under review, forensic labs are failing to meet basic standards and some are just going bust. Where did it all go wrong?

Insight

Humans

How your digital style gives you away – and how to hide it

Features

Humans

Forensic Architecture: How to make right state wrongs

Culture

Technology

Future forensics: Harnessing the spirit of Sherlock Holmes

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Why the Trump administration is taking science out of forensics

Analysis