New forensic research reveals that fragments of moss as small as an eyelash can serve as a powerful tool in solving crimes.

Our criminal justice system often functions in an environment which is saturated with social pressure, hostile witnesses, ...

In the world of television criminal investigation, characters like Gil Grissom and his "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" cohorts have managed to make the field of forensic science seem like one picture ...

Prof. Trais Pearson contributed a chapter to a new edited volume on the global history of forensic science and medicine. The volume, titled Global Forensic Cultures: Making Facts and Justice in the ...

Kati Weis is a Murrow Award-winning reporter for CBS News based in New Orleans, covering the Southeast. She previously worked as an investigative reporter at CBS News Colorado in their Denver newsroom ...

This year, the museum opened “Forensic Science on Trial,” a temporary exhibition that explores how people influence the way forensic science is used in the pursuit of justice. The exhibition’s curator ...

A forensic scientist who has worked with police and presented evidence in major court cases has said she is “delighted and humbled” to be given a damehood. Professor Dame Lorna Dawson is head of the ...

Kathy Eppler had waited seven years to see the man who murdered her two brothers and sister-in-law be punished for his crimes. Garrett Coughlin was sentenced to life without parole in the triple ...

Rape prosecution in India has always been a tricky task with the survivors often undergoing intimidation, social stigma, and ...

Forensic science isn't ending up only in the courtroom, but on your television set. The popularity of forensic science fiction could be raising some troubling issues.