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Technology

Fingerprint challenge aims to automate how best prints get taken

The US government wants a scanner that can take your fingerprints as well as a trained police officer, but fast enough to get you through security on time

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Humans

How we represent ourselves can distort our identity

Culture

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Technology

Medieval wax seals are giving up fresh historical secrets

Features

Arrows point to key items for investigation

Technology

Dutch police use augmented reality to investigate crime scenes

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Ground Zero

Humans

Who Owns the Dead? The atrocity of 9/11 casts a long shadow

Culture

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Life

How forensic science can stop slaughter of endangered wildlife

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Security searches at a Kuwaiti mosque, September 2016

Humans

Kuwait's mass DNA database is a huge attack on genetic privacy

Comment

Spatter from blood-soaked sponges could aid gun forensics

Humans

Spatter from blood-soaked sponges could aid gun forensics

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Humans

Hundreds of mystery human skulls sold on eBay for up to $5500

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Humans

How faulty crime-scene forensics can make you a murderer

Physical evidence cannot be wrong. But the human interpretation of that evidence can be very wrong indeed

Features

Humans

How DNA profiling helped unravel the horror of Bosnia's genocide

Comment

Health

'Shaken baby' expert witness found guilty of misleading courts

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Life

Microbe CSI: How to read the air for clues at crime scenes

Features

Humans

Will tracking people via clouds of microbes stand up in court?

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