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The Kent Police in England released a shoddy computer-generated police sketch that is drawing humorous comparisons to old video games.

We’re Losing Our Minds at This “Computer Generated” Sketch of a Police Suspect

By Frank Landymore

A Mississippi police lieutenant discovered that officials were holding onto and even giving away human remains that should've been returned.

Mississippi Considers Law Against Police Keeping Dead Bodies for “Personal Collections”

By Frank Landymore

The researchers trained an AI model on over 60,000 fingerprints, finding similarities they claim have gone overlooked.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Study Claims Human Fingerprints Aren’t Actually Unique

By Frank Landymore

By using neural radiance fields, a team of researchers have developed a technique to render a 3D scene of what's reflected in your eye.

Science & Energy

Scientists Reconstruct What You’re Looking at by Enhancing Reflection in Your Eye

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have figured out a way to retrieve tiny traces of human genetic material called environmental DNA (eDNA) from thin air.

Experts Alarmed by Tech That Identifies Human DNA Floating in Air

By Victor Tangermann

Police have made an arrest in the University of Idaho murder case, using "public genealogy databases" to link the alleged killer's DNA to the crime scene.

Police Say They Used Genealogy Database to Arrest Idaho Murder Suspect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cats, ever the mischievous and frisky pets, may be harboring a lot more human DNA than once thought, possibly tampering crime scenes, a new study says.

Science & Energy

Cats May Be Tampering With Crime Scenes, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A research facility that studies how cadavers decompose had a break in of hungry feral cats, which actually gave forensics experts new insights and tools.

Science & Energy

Feral Cats Break Into Research Facility, Eat Human Cadavers

By Dan Robitzski

After photographing dead bodies for 17 months, scientists at a body farm made a greusome discovery: decomposing corpses wriggle around as they dry up.

Horrifying Study: Corpses Thrash Around For a Year After Death

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built a new tool that matches DNA samples to specific faces from a database that could be linked to the specific genes found in the sample.

Facial recognition

Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases

By Dan Robitzski

An AI system can scan photos of child trafficking victims in hotel rooms and determine where they were taken based on the furniture in the room.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using AI to Find Hotel Rooms Being Used for Child Sex Trafficking

By Dan Robitzski

Bad DNA Tests Are Getting Innocent People Convicted

Bad DNA Tests Are Getting Innocent People Convicted

Two Forensic DNA Analysis Techniques Are Under Fire for Serious Inaccuracies

Science & Energy

Two Forensic DNA Analysis Techniques Are Under Fire for Serious Inaccuracies

By Claudia Geib

You Can Now Identify a Person’s Sex Based On Fingerprints

Science & Energy

You Can Now Identify a Person’s Sex Based On Fingerprints

By June Javelosa