Forensic science has long held that fingerprints are singular identifiers, unique to each finger and each individual. This ...

You’ve had your own personal set of fingerprints since before you were born, and they’ll be with you throughout your whole ...

“Do you think that every fingerprint is actually unique?”It’s a question that a professor asked Gabe Guo during a casual chat while he was stuck at home during the COVID-19 lockdowns, waiting to start ...

Hi, I'm Matt Steiner. [Narrator] Matt is a senior crime scene analyst. He explained how crimes scenes worked in technique critique. So in this case, he uses deductive reasoning to come up with the ...

New research suggests that our fingerprints aren’t actually unique, in what could potentially be a blow to a long-held cornerstone of forensic science. The work, published as a study in the journal ...

The detection and use of latent fingerprints have been part of the bedrock of forensic science since the 19 th century. Image Credit: Prath/Shutterstock.com In terms of forensic science, there are ...