Forensic science is a growing field that offers scientists opportunities to specialize in different techniques.

When evidence is collected at a Hennepin County crime scene, it ends up in a laboratory in downtown Minneapolis, where in ...

Old-fashioned detective work and advances in forensic science led to the identification of a suspect in the killings of four ...

Forensic experts have obtained a DNA profile of the unknown killer of a schoolgirl raped and shot dead 62 years ago near Swansea, Wales. Scientists isolated the killer's DNA from a semen stain on the ...

More than 170 rape kits caught up in the Forensic Science Queensland laboratory's backlog will be sent offshore next week for ...

He was the first to use PCR testing on crime-scene DNA, inspiring a practice that has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted ...

Delays in the testing of DNA recovered from Queensland crime scenes has blown out to an estimated two and a half years, a ...

SAGA—The chief of the Saga prefectural police reassured the public that no third-party probe was needed for 130 inappropriate ...

Rape cases could be solved quicker thanks to a forensic science breakthrough. Researchers in Canada have developed a "radical" new technique for analyzing evidence in sexual assault cases. They say ...

The National Police Agency will launch a special investigation into falsified DNA tests and other misconduct by a Saga ...