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In South Africa, discarded pineapple leaves can now be turned into a low-cost, eco-friendly solution for both cleaning polluted water and forensics.
New innovations in understanding how a dead body breaks down can be scaled globally.
Using robots to simulate stabbings can enhance forensic accuracy – and the pursuit of justice.
If you’ve only ever seen crime scenes on TV shows, the reality will likely surprise you.
Borrowed from geology, subsurface imaging may help us solve crimes – if we know how best to use the tools.
An accurate estimate of when someone died is a critical part of forensic investigations. In extremely cold conditions, molecular biology can provide critical information where the naked eye cannot.
Pfc Charles McAllister will finally be laid to rest in his home town on Seattle.
Through each step of the autopsy process, the dignity and respect of the deceased is prioritised by all involved.
When human remains are found underwater, forensics needs a different approach. To understand what happens at sea, we need to study it.
Expert opinion is necessary as part of the justice system – but nobody is asking if the experts are fit for the task and if their evidence is reliable.
Pigs, specifically those weighing around 60kg, are useful in human decomposition studies.
A uniquely identifying population of bacteria can survive on clothes for months after a person wears them.
Using fingerprints to catch criminals isn’t 100% accurate, but analyzing fingerprints in 3D, rather than 2D, could improve the process.
A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.
The meanings we carry around in our heads seem so natural and inborn that we fail to realise other people can have quite different understandings.
The hospital blast site has largely been cleared, Hamas says. But a forensic scientist explains what other evidence independent experts could look to while conducting an investigation.
Educating mock jurors about what kinds of statements are appropriate − or not − led to more critical assessments of forensic testimony and improved the quality of their decisions.
Human scent could one day be used as evidence in forensics and as diagnostic information in medicine.
We can predict hair and eye colour with reasonable accuracy from DNA, but other characteristics are being investigated.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Murdoch University
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Visiting Scholar, University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD), University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Professor, Medical, Molecular & Forensic Sciences, Murdoch University
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Professor of Forensic Sciences, School of Law and Policing, University of Lancashire
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Director of the Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Forensic Science, University of Hull
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Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Archaeological Science, Flinders University
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Lecturer, Business School & Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Forensic Pathologist at Monash University and Deputy Director, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
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Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Evidence Law, University of Sydney
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Reader in Forensic Geoscience, Keele University