If you regularly watch any police forensics TV shows, then the word "Luminol" is probably already part of your vocabulary. Now, however, you might also want to add the word "Lumicyano." That's the ...

London: A promising new technique developed by researchers will help 'lift' fingerprints even after all traces have been erased from the suspected surface. Consequently, decades-old cases could be ...

Maybe you already know that your fingerprints are especially unique - no one, not even if you have an identical twin, has prints exactly like yours. That's what can make a fingerprint left behind at ...

When a man was found dead in his vehicle last month in La Plata Canyon, investigators used a tried-and-true method to identify him: fingerprinting. Authorities had good reason to believe they knew the ...

Investigators on the hunt for the bigots who terrorized a heavily Jewish Brooklyn enclave are lifting fingerprints from empty beer bottles found near the scene. “We’ve recovered from the scene 27 ...

It’s not as easy to get fingerprint evidence from a gun as detective dramas might have you believe (Image: Rex/Shutterstock) Evidence has appeared out of the air. A team of investigators for the ...

MacGyver and Maxwell Smart had a plethora of tricks up their sleeves (or shoes, as it were), but they never had this. One Paul Kelly and colleagues at Loughborough University have discovered that a ...