For more than a century, the police have relied on fingerprint evidence to catch and convict criminals. But some recent court cases have challenged the authority of fingerprint experts, and questioned ...

The first United States police force began the use of fingerprints in suspect identification in October 1904. But how fingerprints came into law enforcement took a world's fair and a case of mistaken ...

Fingerprints have long been considered the gold standard of crime investigation techniques. As early as 1903, America — with ...

How the unique arrays of swirls, arches, and loops on the tips of our fingers form is a longstanding scientific enigma. Now, a paper published in Cell has solved the mystery, revealing not only the ...

It’s a question that a professor asked Gabe Guo during a casual chat while he was stuck at home during the Covid-19 lockdowns, waiting to start his freshman year at Columbia University. “Little did I ...

Scientists have finally figured out how those arches, loops and whorls formed on your fingertips. While in the womb, fingerprint-defining ridges expand outward in waves starting from three different ...

Why do we have fingerprints? While impressive, it's not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy. Here's what the science says. Most people associate fingerprints with the ability to solve ...