By Lauren Macovitz / Jambar Contributor In courtrooms and classrooms alike, forensic science carries enormous weight. At ...

You’ve seen it countless times. Police scope out the scene of a crime and find a piece of evidence: a strand of hair, a blood sample, a bullet casing. It goes to the lab, and after forensic scientists ...

A research team at the University of Wyoming has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a study titled “Improving Communication Between Crime Laboratories and Legal Decision ...

Detectives and scientists have a lot in common. Both collect data, develop hypotheses and test their assumptions. And both pursue evidence in the hope of a definitive finding. Science was key to the ...