Research Articles
Beyond the Whorls: How a Simple Fingerprint Can Now Reveal a Cocaine User
Discover how forensic scientists are combining fingerprint analysis with mass spectrometry to detect cocaine and its adulterants from a single latent print.
The Invisible Witness: How Dyed Textile Fibers Help Solve Crimes
Explore how dyed textile fiber analysis transforms microscopic traces into powerful forensic evidence through chemistry and spectroscopy techniques.
Cracking the Chemical Code: The Forensic Science of Illicit Drug Profiling
Explore state-of-the-art analytical approaches revolutionizing illicit drug profiling in forensic investigations through advanced chemical and DNA analysis techniques.
The Invisible Made Visible: How Chemical Test Kits Revolutionize Crime Scene Shoeprint Analysis
Explore how forensic reagent test kits like SPECK transform invisible shoeprints into crucial crime scene evidence through targeted chemical reactions.
Crime Scene in a Pocket: How Paper Microfluidics is Revolutionizing Forensic Science
Explore how paper-based microfluidic devices are transforming forensic science with portable, affordable crime scene analysis technology.
The Time Machine in Your Pen: How Science Unravels Ink Secrets to Expose Forged Documents
Discover how forensic scientists use multiset modeling of infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry data to date blue pen ink and expose document forgeries.
Breaking the Code: How Alternative DNA Polymerases Are Revolutionizing Forensic Science
Explore how alternative DNA polymerases and statistical modeling are transforming forensic DNA analysis, overcoming PCR inhibition and improving criminal investigations.
Chemistry and Crime: How a Forensic Science Course is Revolutionizing Science Education
Explore how forensic science courses are transforming science education through hands-on crime investigation techniques and analytical chemistry methods.
The Invisible Race: How Forensic Labs are Fighting Against the Clock to Deliver Justice
Exploring forensic laboratory turnaround time (TAT) - the critical metric impacting justice delivery through scientific evidence analysis.
The Invisible Witness: How Advanced Chemistry Exposes Document Forgeries
Explore how X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revolutionizes forensic document analysis by revealing the deposition sequence of intersecting ink lines.