Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 13:28
in Physics & Chemistry
Fingerprints can reveal critical evidence, as well as an identity, with the use of a new technology developed at Purdue University that detects trace amounts of explosives, drugs or other materials left behind in the prints.
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