Real-life CSI: What can investigators really tell from gunshot residue?
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 14:01
in Psychology & Sociology
The popular TV series CSI is fiction, but every day, real-life investigators and forensic scientists collect and analyze evidence to determine what happened at crime scenes. Scientists say they have developed a more rapid and accurate method that could allow crime scene investigators to tell what kind of ammunition was shot from a gun based on the residue it left behind.