According to botanists at the Field Museum in Chicago, moss helped close a 17-year-old grave robbing case that rocked the ...

Back in 2009, residents were scandalized when employees at Burr Oak Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Alsip were accused of exhuming old graves in order to resell the burial plots, unceremoniously ...

When a sex worker escaped a terrifying encounter, police had a suspect – but forensics gave them the conviction. Philippa ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Two men unlawfully killed a lion in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe to sell its parts. Forensic technology provided the ...

Jody Loomis was sexually assaulted and murdered in 1972 while biking to a horse stable — and decades later, a trace of DNA on ...

On February 28, 1953, scientists James Watson and Francis Crick announced they had worked out the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that carries ...

Around 1,500 bones belonging to at least 29 people were found where they shouldn't be. But it was moss that gave the criminals away.

One of America’s greatest mysteries might be ready for a reexamination.

At the height of her career, chemist and physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett faced challenges that not even her closest colleagues suspected ...

The Weird Homicide Fairy is a jocular reminder of the effect of irrelevant evidence on criminal investigation. We can see these effects in cases such as the death of Adolf Hitler.

I never considered…that my deeper entry into the Getty world would rob me of my own hard-earned story,” the California ...