Jennifer Smiatacz, a forensic scientist employed by the Michigan State Police, quickly laid to rest any television-fueled illusions about what crime scene investigators do. “I don’t wear red leather ...

Crime Scene Technician, Criminalist, Forensic Scientist, Crime Scene Investigator, Evidence Technician, Crime Scene Analyst, Latent Print Examiner, Forensic Science Examiner, Forensic Specialist, ...

MARIETTA — Wheeler High School magnet students stumbled across a murder scene in school last week. However, instead of calling the police, they set out solving the crime themselves, eventually ...

Outdoor forensic anthropology research laboratories are colloquially called “body farms,” a term that many researchers find too sensational but that has stuck following the 1994 publication of ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study ...

In a couple of months, Samantha Teehee, an eighth-grader at Salem Church Middle School in Chesterfield County, has gone from knowing little about forensic science to being interested in a career in ...

Poisoning is the injury, illness, or death that occurs when a harmful substance enters the body through swallowing, breathing, skin contact, injection, or other routes, overwhelming the body's ability ...

KINGSTON — This isn't your parents' science class. And the job of a crime scene investigator isn't as glamorous as what you see on an episode of "CSI." Students in teacher Erin Heigelmann's forensics ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study will examine the handing of deaths in custody by the medicolegal death investigation system in the United States. It will consider ...