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Can AI make crime scene investigations less biased?

AI tools could help eliminate human bias in forensic investigations, say UCL scientists, who are using eye-tracking technology to study decision-making in skeletal analysis and crime scene examinations

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Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left at crime scenes

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Apr 10, 2024 Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking method capable of detecting drug substances from fingerprints lifted from crime scenes, which could provide fresh insights into unsolved cases. The technique is sheath-flow probe electrospray ionization. Supplied by Meg Cox M.A.Cox@lboro.ac.uk

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Missing bullets can be identified by ricochet residue at crime scenes

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AI can tell if prints from two different fingers belong to same person

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Men and women's hands can be distinguished just from their scent

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A woman with her daughter observes the pictures of people who lost their lives during the Guatemalan civil war, as forensic anthropologists from the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG) exhume the bodies of one of four mass graves in La Verbena cemetery, in Guatemla City on March 6, 2010, as part of a search to find the 889 people who disappeared during the internal armed conflict (1960-1996). AFP PHOTO/Johan ORDONEZ (Photo credit should read JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Still Life With Bones review: Harrowing account of exposing genocide

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AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification

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AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification

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Trees and shrubs might reveal the location of decomposing bodies

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Simulating dead bodies could help calculate an accurate time of death

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A fingerprint can show if someone has taken cocaine or just touched it

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A fingerprint can show if someone has taken cocaine or just touched it

A person who has ingested cocaine will excrete a compound that can be detected from a single fingerprint, even if they have washed their hands

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Some people are exceptionally good at recognising voices

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Some people are exceptionally good at recognising voices

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Your DNA could transfer to a weapon you have never touched

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Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

Don't Miss: A documentary festival and the nature of life and death

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Modern forensics solves Stone Age murder mystery after 33,000 years

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