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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIEVES who leave faint fingerprints on plastic banknotes or photographs in newspapers could find themselves fingered by a technique that shows up previously undetectable prints. The most sensitive ...