JASON: NOW ON SUNRISE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT EVERYONE HAS WHICH SETS THEM APART FROM OTHERS IS A FINGERPRINT. MEREDITH: THEY CAN BE USED TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE, HELP US GRAB THINGS AND EVEN FOR ART ...

It's potentially a powerful new tool for law enforcement. A team of Dutch forensic scientists has discovered how to accurately date fingerprints to within one or two days of when they were left on an ...

Forensic dramas on TV make it seem easy to determine when fingerprints were left at the scene of a crime. In reality, the oils in fingerprints degrade over time, and it's difficult to figure out their ...

Fingerprint authentication systems are a widely trusted, ubiquitous form of biometric authentication, deployed on billions of smartphones and other devices worldwide. Yet a new study reveals a ...

After a brush with burglars, an Australian scientist has developed a new technique to 'dust' for fingerprints, creating a solution that makes fingerprints glow under blacklight. Claire Reilly was a ...

Tech developed at the University of Warwick sees through partial, distorted, scratched, and even smudged fingerprints, scoring top marks in the toughest tests. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth ...

In a significant breakthrough, scientists at Maynooth University in Ireland have developed a new test that successfully recovers fingerprints from spent bullet casings. This achievement, often ...

In 2016, a jury convicted Audrey Cannon of burglary after police said she broke into a house in Northeast Portland. Forensic investigators with the Portland Police Bureau linked Cannon to the crime ...

Sifting through fingerprints gathered from crime scenes is the job of fingerprint analysts and—increasingly—their computers. Training humans and their machine partners for this meticulous work is no ...

"I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It's been my whole life for five years now," says Enrico Amico, a scientist and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL's Medical Image Processing ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the ...