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New da Vinci Painting Possibly Discovered

Scientists at a laboratory in Paris believe they may have discovered another one of Leonardo da Vinci's works, when they have assessed that a fingerprint retrieved from a painting is “remarkably similar” to another one, found on a Vatican art piece. The second painting has been directly tied to the I...

13 October 2009
09:02 GMT

Experts to Discuss Using CT and MRI in Autopsy Practices

The Leicester Tigers Stadium conference, to be held at the Caterpillar Stand starting the 23rd of November, will be the first in the UK to witness discussions about the use of computed tomography (CT) scans and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in conducting autopsies. Arguing the validity of this idea will be the Uni...

17 September 2009
09:48 GMT

Establishing the Chemical 'Fingerprint' of Death

Discovering dead bodies at accident scenes, disaster sites, and in graves hastily dug up by murderers is, at this point, a painstaking process, revolving mostly around a trial-and-error methodology. Some people who survive an earthquake, for instance, die under the rubble, but they cannot be found even after their de...

17 August 2009
04:52 GMT

Police Expert Recreates Ancient Mummy's Face

Using state-of-the-art forensics science, a police sketch artist who works with the Maryland Department of Justice and the State Police Missing Persons Unit has reconstructed the face of the University of Chicago-owned mummy of the ancient Thebes temple singer Meresamun. A second reconstruction has been done by Chica...

24 June 2009
05:45 GMT

New Fingerprint Identification Technique Devised

US experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently announced that they are in the latter stages of developing a new investigation technique that will help forensics specialists in the manual portion of the latent fingerprint identification. This would free up a lot of time for the...

24 April 2009
06:37 GMT

Helix 2008R1 Released

The Helix team has announced the release and immediate availability of the latest version of their Linux Distribution, called Helix 2008R1, but which is actually Helix 2.0. This version comes with a lot of changes over the previous release, both new additions and updated packages.Let's have a closer look at some...

23 September 2008
04:43 GMT

How Luminol Works

Luminol is mostly known to us as a chemiluminescent compound used by law enforcements in crime scene investigations to detect traces of blood, even after the crime scene has been thoroughly cleaned in order to conceal the violent events that took place in a particular location. What is not usually told in various sho...

7 July 2008
08:48 GMT

Introducing BlackRoute

BlackRoute is yet another Slackware-based Linux distribution for security and forensic analysis, created for x86 compatible architectures. What is so special about BlackRoute is the fact that it tries to create an Open Source Linux distribution for advanced users, security and network specialists and system administr...

3 September 2007
06:11 GMT


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