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After refusing to pay the ransom demanded by those behind a cyberattack, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has been out of action since February 8.

MRI scans from more than 800 incarcerated men pinpoint distinct structural features of people who have committed homicide, compared with those who carried out other crimes.

The Department of Justice plans to require cheek swabs at the border, with the data then entered in a national criminal database.

Scientists argue that anti-Chinese political rhetoric and policies could harm US research.

Sixty percent of Americans with European ancestry can be traced to a given DNA sample, even if they’ve never had genetic testing, scientists say.

DNA from a relative of the suspect submitted to the site GEDmatch gave investigators just enough information to identify him, but the process raises privacy concerns.

Scientists in the U.K., in collaboration with members of the judiciary, have launched the first in a series of explanatory documents designed to help integrate science into the courtroom.

A Northwestern University plague researcher has been charged with a brutal murder. Here’s what we know about him.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Wyndham Lathem of Northwestern University in connection with a stabbing death in Chicago.

Diego Gomez was facing jail time in Colombia for posting someone else’s copyrighted thesis online.

The facility—the first of its kind in Europe—will help researchers study what happens to decomposing bodies.

Meet the researchers working to untangle the mystery of a Missouri home filled with bones by bringing cutting-edge technologies into the crime lab.

Forensic scientists have been using rudimentary molecular techniques for decades. But advanced forensic anthropology technologies and
methods are just now coming to the fore in some investigations.

A former Mount Sinai School of Medicine faculty member shot the institution’s dean, The New York Times reports. 

Advances in neuroimaging have improved our understanding of the brain, but the resulting data do little to help judges and juries determine criminal culpability.

For assistance in solving crimes, a company has developed a service that will construct a face based on a genetic sample.

Police are calling the death of James Bradstreet, a physician who claimed vaccines cause autism and offered autism cures to patients, an apparent suicide.

Microbial species found in pubic hair samples could help track down criminals.

Six Italian earthquake advisors, charged with manslaughter for not sounding the alarm on a 2009 temblor, had their convictions overturned.