Baseball (and statistics) celebrity Bill James of Boston Red Sox fame is turning his focus to serial killers. Wired Magazine looks at James and his new book:
In addition to wondering about slugging percentages and pitching records, though, James has long been asking questions like: Why do some crimes become more .Read more...
One aspect of the news regarding Osama Bin Laden was the rapid DNA match that confirmed his identity. Kit Eaton at Fast Company magazine takes a look at ‘DNA matching‘ and how it was used by the military.
DNA matching (also known as genetic fingerprinting) is different to full DNA sequencing–a .Read more...
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PBS and Frontline recently premiered a disturbing documentary examining the coroner profession called ‘Post-Mortem’. “A dysfunctional system in which there are few standards, little oversight, and the mistakes .Read more...
Wired Magazine asks, “Just how organized is crime?”
BusinessWeek profiles Hany Farid, an expert on Photoshop forensics.
The Dartmouth College computer scientist is developing digital forensics software that can instantly tell whether an image has been manipulated, and what make and model of camera captured it. It’s “exactly like gun ballistics,” says Farid, 44. “If Photoshop .Read more...
The New York Times works to understand the Stuxnet Worm.
Fingerprints in the New York Times.
Researchers have found a way to mathematically calculate the rarity of a fingerprint.
Although fingerprints are unique to every individual, crime scene prints are usually incomplete patterns taken off doorknobs or glass.
Knowing the rarity of a partial print could be useful to forensic scientists who .Read more...
The New York Times looks at Microsoft’s fight with pirates:
The arrival of organized criminal syndicates to the software piracy scene has escalated worries at companies like Microsoft, Symantec and Adobe. Groups in China, South America and Eastern Europe appear to have supply chains and sales networks rivaling those of .Read more...
The New York Times reports:
The nation’s ability to identify the source of a nuclear weapon used in a terrorist attack is fragile and eroding, according to a report released Thursday by the National Research Council.
Such highly specialized detective work, known as nuclear attribution, seeks to study clues .Read more...
A new DNA spray may be the future of matching criminals to the scene of a crime:
When the McDonald’s down from City Hall here was burglarized a few years ago, its managers decided they needed a new security system.
It was just about that time that local police officers were offering .Read more...
DNA evidence and other forensic work has led to the release of hundreds of inmates incorrectly incarcerated across the United States. The New York Times profiles the plight of Michael A. Green and his forthcoming decision on vengeance.
Since a judge let him out of prison for a rape that prosecutors .Read more...
Newsweek’s Sharon Begley opines on the need for nuclear forensics:
The U.S. has not stood out in advancing the cause of nuclear attribution even at home. A 2008 analysis by physicists and nuclear chemists for the American Physical Society and AAAS concluded the U.S. .Read more...
