Fingerprints provide clues to more than just identity
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 13:42
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. The new technology also can distinguish between overlapping fingerprints left by different individuals - a difficult task for current optical forensic methods...
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