Police officers can often identify which driver is responsible for a traffic accident. But what about when a self-driving vehicle is involved? Which driver should be liable for that?
read more
Steg.AI, a startup company based on artificial intelligence technology developed at Rutgers, is aiming to help businesses and organizations protect their media assets and intellectual property by making it easier to detect deepfakes.
read more
In the most promising breakthrough yet, forensic scientists and researchers have generated investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) profiles for 6 unidentified individuals excavated from Oaklawn Cemetery during the 1921Graves investigation to identify victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
read more
A new bill in Florida that seeks to add privacy protections for people who share their DNA with third-parties unanimously passed the Senate committee late last week.
read more
Exactly 43 years to the day after a woman’s body was found on the shores of Lake Erie, in Sandusky, Ohio, police have verified her identity as that of Patricia Eleanor Greenwood, born 1948.
read more
Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded $276,803 in grant funds to help the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences purchase equipment and supplies to increase its capacity to assist with criminal investigations statewide.
read more
Colorado's Office of Civil and Forensic Mental Health is piloting a first-of-its-kind program to identify and treat individuals with brain injuries who are either already receiving or are on the waitlist for competency services.
read more
Pangolins, unique scale-covered mammals, are drastically declining in numbers across Asia and Africa, largely due to illegal trade.
read more
On Tuesday, a new law took effect in Ohio that makes strangulation a felony offense. Up until that time, Ohio was the only state in the U.S. that failed to recognize the potentially deadly crime as a felony.
read more
A North Carolina State University-led study found it is possible to retrieve forensically relevant information from human DNA in household dust.
read more