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Research shows hand gestures used in the right way can help implant false memories, with serious implications for police interviews.
A new technique could help the police identify more criminals from just their footprints.
Paris police were able to use information found on a phone, but what details can be found that could tackle future attacks?
Why the UK needs a body farm for research.
In the middle of a rose garden, on a leafy road in northwest London, nestles the Freud Museum – though the petals, in October, are tumbling. The house, at 20 Maresfield Gardens, is the proud bearer of…
Bodies thought to belong to members of Russia’s murdered royal family are to be re-examined for new evidence but forensics has its potential and limitations.
CSI and its franchise has achieved something unique: making forensics glamorous and sexy and fuelling public fascination with the dead.
South African forensics may provide clues to the 400-year-old mystery of what was smoked in pipes found in Shakespeare’s garden.
Using DNA testing, researchers find that most elephant poaching is happening in two spots – crucial information to stopping the flow of ivory out of Africa.
CSI lied to you: investigating a crime scene is long, complicated and often boring.
Germs on shoes and mobile phones are a good way of tracing criminal suspects, finds study.
DNA profiling is a powerful tool, but being faced with identical DNA from identical genes has been a problem - until now.
Forensic science has revolutionised justice, but we may have too much faith in it.
Forensics is changing in the digital age, and the legal system is still catching up in terms of how it uses digital evidence.
The first of the bodies from Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 have arrived in the Netherlands ready for forensic investigation into the remains of the 298 passengers and crew. Identifying the victims is…
Much has been made of the possibility that the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was the work of an anti-aircraft missile. Even without confirmation or corroboration, investigators will have a wealth…
Returning the 298 victims from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 to their families with dignity and respect is a major priority for each nation involved. Disaster victim identification (DVI) is a difficult…
Hopefully the southern Australian heatwave is coming to an end – for now. But for health-care providers and death investigators, such as me, the fallout will continue for some time to come. It’s unclear…
The entire world witnessed last month’s horrifying terrorist attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Now forensic experts from Interpol, US, UK, Germany, and Canada have joined Kenyan law enforcement…
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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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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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Professor of Evidence Law, University of Sydney
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Reader in Forensic Geoscience, Keele University