The arrest and abrupt release of an American lawyer who was initially linked by fingerprints to the deadly train bombing in Madrid may reflect the limitations of computerized fingerprint matching, ...

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 ...

Jan. 14 -- We carry around unique maps of swirls and ridges on our fingertips, and judges and juries have been using them for almost a century to decide innocence and guilt. Because no two people have ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ancient fingerprint and several chemical clues from a 2,400-year-old sea raiders' boat are revealing secrets about where some mysterious attackers came from during the Iron Age.

For more than a century, the police have relied on fingerprint evidence to catch and convict criminals. But some recent court cases have challenged the authority of fingerprint experts, and questioned ...

Fingerprints can tell a lot more about people — what they’ve touched, what they’ve eaten, what drugs they’ve taken — than just their identities. Now, a new analytic tool could make it easier to spot ...

Traditional methods for obtaining fingerprints, which involve powders, liquids or vapors, can destroy the print for further analysis. A new technique uses X-rays to detect salts from a person's sweat.

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself had few pine forests. While it is possible that the pine pitch made its ...