You're likely quite familiar with the standard method of dusting for fingerprints portrayed in so many movies and TV shows, but that method doesn't pick up every potential fingerprint. Using ...

SAN DIEGO, March 13 — Dusting for fingerprints can sometimes alter the prints, erasing valuable forensic clues. Now, chemists say they have developed a new fingerprint visualization technique using ...

CSI notwithstanding, forensics experts cannot always retrieve fingerprints from objects, but a new conformal coating process can reveal hard-to-develop fingerprints on nonporous surfaces without ...

An Australian scientist has developed a new crime scene identification technique for fingerprint detection and analysis. By adding a drop of liquid containing crystals to surfaces, investigators using ...

After Australian materials researcher Kang Liang's home was burgled, he came up with a new forensic method to make fingerprints fluorescent. The glow comes from the reaction between crystals and ...

JUSTICE will be done more often: a new method of fingerprint analysis could not only detect prints but also reveal when they were made. Techniques for capturing a fingerprint are far from ...

The strong luminescent effect creates greater contrast between the latent print and surface enabling higher resolution images to be taken for easier and more precise analyses. CSIRO materials ...