If you've watched any of the various CSI TV shows, then you'll already be familiar with luminol. It's a chemical that, when sprayed onto trace amounts of blood that aren't visible to the naked eye, ...

Luminol gets trotted out pretty frequently on TV crime shows, but a new technique might someday compete with the storied forensics tool as a police procedural plot device and, perhaps more importantly ...

Inspired by the popular television drama CSI, investigators in the Netherlands have trialed methods used by forensic scientists at crime scenes to highlight infection risks in their hospital.

Frequently seen on TV shows like CSI, luminol is a chemical used by forensic investigators, which glows blue when exposed to trace amounts of blood at crime scenes. It's typically combined with ...

As part of a grant-funded project to study documentary and archaeological evidence from the Bennington Battlefield in Walloomsac, N.Y., Yeshion analyzed 136 Revolutionary War musket balls, buckshot ...

At crime scenes , forensic analysts work alongside investigators to collect evidence and analyze it for chemical, biological and physical markers, such as DNA. Now, researchers at the Beersheba-based ...

Forensic teams have spent the night searching for traces of blood outside the home where William Tyrrell was last seen in 2014. Specialist police officers sprayed the chemical luminol outside ...

A potential rival to the storied forensics tool luminol has emerged. Researchers show that using a hand steamer in combination with thermal imaging, a visualization technique they term "steam ...