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All Articles Tagged As: fingerprints
 | Fingerprints -- dozens of crime dramas revolve around them. The investigators find the victim, dust for fingerprints, run them through a computer program and -- voilá -- the guilty party is quickly identified and sent to prison. ...> Full Article |
 | Groundbreaking research into fingerprint detection developed at the University of Leicester now has an industrial application, thanks to a new invention by the scientist who developed the technique. ...> Full Article |
 | CSI notwithstanding, forensics experts cannot always retrieve fingerprints from objects, but a conformal coating process developed by Penn State professors can reveal hard-to-develop fingerprints on nonporous surfaces without altering the chemistry of the print. ...> Full Article |
There is no quantitative standard used by the worldwide fingerprint community to determine the quantity and quality of information in an image or for the number of points of comparison required for identification. The National Institute of Justice has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available in fingerprint patterns.
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 | Chemistry researchers at University of Leicester announce simple but effective way of lifting prints ...> Full Article |
Everyone thinks that they know what fingerprints are for: to improve your grip's friction. But it turns out that this urban myth is wrong. Roland Ennos and Peter Warman from the University of Manchester have proved that instead of improving your grip, fingerprints drastically reduce friction.
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