Purdue University

Forensic science fans learn basics through distance-learning course

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Fans of the popular TV shows "CSI," "Forensic Files" and "The New Detectives" can learn the basics of forensic science in their own homes through a distance- learning course ...
The New York Times

Can’t Fix the System’s Use of Forensic Science Without Fixing the Science

Peter Neufeld is co-founder and co-director of the Innocence Project. Updated March 30, 2015, 6:45 AM Ray Krone was convicted of murder in Phoenix, Ariz., and sentenced to death. The key evidence used ...
insider.si.edu

Smithsonian’s “Forensic Science on Trial” Exhibition Explores What Happens When ...

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...
Salon

Reporters expose how police use “junk science” forensic techniques to arrest innocent ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. It’s ...
NPR

Forensic Basics

NPR's Christopher Joyce explains how medical examiners at the Pentagon, the Pennsylvania crash site and in New York are approaching the grim task of matching body parts to identities. Remains from the ...