With up to 300 million scent receptors, dogs are among the best smell detectors in the animal world. The human nose, by comparison, contains only around 6 million scent receptors. Dog brains also ...

This Special Issue focuses on critical identification cases, as forensic experts increasingly face significant challenges in identifying human remains, both in routine and extraordinary circumstances.

Savannah Brown ’22 M.S. (left) and Gabrielle Messe ’22 M.S. present their research. Savannah Brown ’22 M.S. been working on two ongoing research projects. She recently had the opportunity to share her ...

The forensic science field is composed of public and private entities and organizations that range from those that conduct crime scene investigations and medical examinations to state and local ...

Forensic spectroscopy has emerged as a pivotal tool in the identification and analysis of body fluids at crime scenes, offering a suite of non‐destructive, rapid, and highly sensitive techniques to ...

Forensic entomology is a specialised discipline that investigates the roles and life cycles of insects associated with decomposing remains. This field has evolved from basic observations to ...

File photo of forensic science students in the laboratory (taken before the pandemic). When Summer Li ’20, ’22 M.S. was in her senior year as a forensic science major at the University, she began ...

The preeminent Global Forensic and Justice Center (GFJC) at FIU welcomes Jeff Teitelbaum to serve as the FIU Forensic Research Librarian. Teitelbaum will curate and maintain the first permanent ...

Forensic scientists have been on a quest for more reliable ways to estimate time of death and age of death from skeletal remains. A new study finds that burial methods influence the protein population ...

ASU's New College and the Arizona Supreme Court are teaming up to advance the field of forensic studies with the new Arizona Supreme Court Center for Forensic Science and Psychology. The Center will ...

Forensic anthropologists analyze skeletal remains to help identify people. A new study highlights how this work, specifically dealing with ancestry, may inadvertently support the idea that racial ...

Special Issue: Sharing Clinical and Forensic Toxicology Knowledge in the Era of a Pandemic and Beyond This special issue includes an editorial, one review, five research articles and two case reports ...