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Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...

It's a discovery that would make even Sherlock Holmes proud. British scientists have developed a new crime-fighting technique that allows police to lift fingerprints from bullets even if a criminal ...

Griffiths left her fingerprints on discs, plastic bottles, bottle caps, a paper coffee cup and its lid. She showed us two methods of lifting prints, one using black powder and another using magnetic ...