Lipstick is sticky stuff! Kissing someone on the cheek with your lusciously lipsticked lips will invariably leave a colourful impression. A...

Somewhere around the 8th century, an Arab alchemist produced white arsenic trioxide (As 2 O 3 ) from realgar, a naturally occurring arsenic ...

Bone is a kind of specialized connective tissue providing a supportive framework for the body. Bones are continually being remodeled during ...

University of Queensland scientists have just completed a study revealing that the human factor involved in the process of identifying a set...

Forensic experts at the University of Abertay Dundee and the Scottish Police Services Authority (SPSA) are researching vacuum metal depositi...

Luminol is a common reagent used to detect blood stains and other body fluids at crime scenes because it reacts with iron in blood to produc...

Cadaver-sniffing dogs or ground penetrating radar are used to detect clandestine gravesites, but, these are not always useful if the body is...

A fingerprint is made up of material from the surface of the skin and from gland secretions, which can be detected and analysed. Fingerprin...