World Science Festival
The Science Of Justice: Fudged Forensics & Faulty Witnesses
Think the American criminal justice system is an impartial arbiter of innocence and guilt? Prepare to get a heaping dose of reality, as journalist Jim Dwyer, Innocence Project founder Peter Neufeld, forensic scientist Mechthild Prinz,...
Science360
DNA scientist is honored by President for mentoring science students
DNA scientist Bruce Jackson Bruce Jackson heads the Biotechnology Programs at Massachusetts Bay Community College. His work focuses on how DNA – in conjunction with other tools – can help solve mysteries of ancestry, forensics and...
NASA
NASA's Fermi Satellite Clocks a 'Cannonball' Pulsar
Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour -- so fast it could...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Evidence: Forensic Photography as Art
Artist Angela Strassheim began her career as a forensic photographer in a crime lab. She soon left to focus on art full-time, but she didn't entirely leave the field behind. Her body of work, Evidence, is a documentary art project...