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Cutting-Edge Fingerprint Technology Could Help in the Fight Against Knife Crime

March 18, 2019

Over the decades a multitude of techniques have been developed for enhancing the visualisation of hidden finge...

Fingermark Imaging for Drug Detection

March 15, 2019

Fingermark imaging and drug detection in fingermark residues can combine the chemical information with personal identificatio...

Machine Learning Masters the Fingerprint to Fool Biometric Systems

December 17, 2018

NYU Tandon researchers create synthetic fingerprints capable of spoofing ?smartphone fingerprint sensors

3-D Printers Have 'Fingerprints'

October 19, 2018

The discovery could help trace 3-D printed guns

Off the Scale: Can Forensics Save the World's Most-Trafficked Mammal?

July 2, 2018

A pioneering new project trials fingerprinting techniques to battle pangolin poaching

High Performance Fingerprinting Lens

June 14, 2018

The Resolve Optics Model 228 is a full featured, high performance RUVIS lens proven in the world of fingerprinting and forens...

Fingerprints Lack Scientific Basis for Legal Certainty

October 6, 2017

CMU's Joseph B. Kadane and AAAS Forensic Report call for more research into validity of fingerprint comparisons

Real or Fake? Creating Fingers to Protect Identities

September 21, 2017

Michigan State University biometric expert Anil Jain and his team are working to solve the biggest problems facing fingerprin...

Automated Fingerprint Analysis Is One Step Closer to Reality

August 15, 2017

Scientists have developed an algorithm that automates a key step in forensic fingerprint analysis, which may make the process...

Taking the Guesswork out of Forensic Analysis of Fingermarks

July 5, 2017

Scientists are using lasers to take the mystery out of the process of identifying the chemical compositions of fingermarks at...

Do You Have What It Takes to be a Forensic Fingerprint Examiner?

May 24, 2017

With support from NIST, experts are developing tests to help identify people with the pattern-matching skills needed for anal...

So You Think You Can Secure Your Mobile Phone With a Fingerprint?

May 3, 2017

Researchers find that similarities in partial fingerprints may be sufficient to trick biometric security systems on smartphon...

INSIGHTS on the Growing Fingerprint Challenge

April 12, 2016

Although some fingerprint analysis is new, the concept—using fingerprints for identification—started centuries ag...

Real-life CSI: Age Dating Fingerprints

August 28, 2015

Age dating of fingerprints could have a significant impact in forensic science, as it has the potential to facilitate the jud...

Device Captures Signatures with Tiny Piezo-Phototronic LEDs

August 13, 2013

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights – tiny lights, that is. Usin...

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