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National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Unscripted - John Butler
NIST Fellow and DNA expert John Butler describes his work in DNA forensic science, how NIST standards enable accurate DNA measurements to be made, how NIST methods helped ID victims of 9/11, how he got interested in forensics, and how...
IDG TECHtalk
What Windows admins need to know about computer forensics
Understand these basic elements of computer forensics before you have to review log data for suspicious activity.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Fentanyl Can Sicken First Responders. Here's a Possible Solution
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Putting the Science in Forensic Science
A brief look at the NIST Forensic Science Program and the NIST research, products, services and other activities that support the forensic science community.
TED-Ed
What Is Dust Made Of?
We find dust almost everywhere, but have you ever considered it fascinating? Dust contains a variety of materials and varies greatly based on location. After learning about dust, scholars answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
American Chemical Society
TV Forensics: What Do CSIs Actually Do?
TV dramas tend to exaggerate the forensic science components. Learn what true forensic chemistry looks like in an installment of a larger series covering reactions. Viewers see that chromatography, mass spectrography, and methodical...
Physics Girl
Solving Crimes with Infrared?
Do you have a camera that can see through walls? Physics Girl and Nickipedia team up to explain infrared cameras as part of a larger series of videos. It offers a demonstration of the technology as well as an explanation of the science.
Fuse School
Spectrometry
Your class' curiosity will peak during this video about the process of spectrometry. Young chemists discover how spectrometry assists forensic chemists in determining the identity of unknown substances, as well as how it played a role in...
Fuse School
Chromatography—Paper and Thin Layer
Get ready to play detective! The eighth video in a series of ten explains two types of chemical separation methods via chromatography. The class experiences how substances move and deposit, based on solubility, then how to compare the...
Bozeman Science
DNA Fingerprinting
The chances of a DNA mismatch occurring in DNA fingerprinting is one in a billion. Here learners see how using the differences in people's DNA, specifically Short Tandem Repeats (STRs), cutting them out using restriction enzymes, and...
TED-Ed
What Happens to Our Bodies After We Die?
Burial practices are the focus of a short video that not only investigate how and why bodies decompose, but also looks at some modern approaches to the treatment of bodies and burials.
Curated OER
Ice Age People in Florida?
Spring breakers first gathered in Wakulla Springs, Florida, over 10,000 years ago! A video explains how geologists and archaeologists work together to uncover hidden artifacts from this time period.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Using Dna to Identify People
This lesson focuses on the molecular biology technique of DNA fingerprinting: what it is, how it works, and how the data from these experiments are used for paternity testing and forensics. [45:48]
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Forensics
Watch kids use forensic science to solve a crime mystery. Discover how forensic scientists use fingerprints and splatter analysis.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Real Scientists: Criminalist
Explore how criminalists use forensic science to solve legal disputes. Observe how a criminalist analyzes a piece of glass to identify culprits in a crime scene.