The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Fingerprints have provided key evidence in countless cases of serious crime.

There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about the court-martial at the Fort Huachuca military base in Arizona at the end of February. But when the analyst from the Department of Defense forensic ...

Introduction Do you know that you leave fingerprints on everything you touch? If your hands are very dirty, this is obvious because you can actually see them. But even if your hands seem clean, your ...