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Forensic science

June 2024

  • The disruption in the nettles’ growth allowed Patricia Wiltshire to deduce exactly how long the girls’ bodies had been left in the ditch

    Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders

    Patricia Wiltshire reveals how her forensic knowledge helped secure the conviction of Ian Huntley for the 2002 murders

April 2024

  • Andrew Malkinson outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

    Andrew Malkinson says improved DNA tests could have spared him years in jail

    Exclusive: rollout of fresh testing for contested rape and murder convictions ‘should have happened a decade ago’, Malkinson says

March 2024

  • group of bioluminescent crystal jellyfish (Aequorea victoria), glowing blue, orange and white against a black background

    Forensic spray using jellyfish protein could speed up fingerprint detection

    Dyes based on the fluorescent proteins are also water-soluble and low-toxicity so could replace solvents

November 2023

  • Piltdown Man display, Natural History Museum, December 1953.

    From the Guardian archive
    Piltdown Man remains exposed as fake – archive, 1953

  • Jim Zoro at Pointe de l'Observatoire, Aussois, France, in 2012

    Other lives
    James Zoro obituary

October 2023

  • Chen Kugel and another medical expert

    Forensic teams still working to identify bodies 10 days after Hamas massacres

  • Queensland health minister Shannon Fentiman

    Queensland to open fresh inquiry into forensic DNA testing as compromised cases rise to nearly 40,000

September 2023

  • Andrew Malkinson

    Andrew Malkinson case shows importance of securely stored scientific evidence

    DNA evidence examined three years after his false conviction for rape in 2004 was vital in exonerating him

August 2023

  • Ötzi the Iceman

    Ötzi the iceman had receding hairline and dark skin tone, study reveals

  • Andy Malkinson with red and black umbrella

    Rape, DNA and injustice: a timeline of the Andrew Malkinson case

July 2023

  • Gene and Sandy Ralston on Lake Billy Chinook in Jefferson County, Oregon. Photograph: Leah Nash/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims – podcast

  • Andrea Lev, with shoulder-length hair, looking at the camera from a slight angle with a slight smile

    Andrea Levy’s notes on Mary Seacole brought to light by IT experts

April 2023

  • Evidence of the missing person is logged in a database.

    How a UK missing persons charity solves cold cases using expert volunteers

    Locate International, founded by a retired detective, has one ultimate goal: to investigate every cold case in the UK

December 2022

  • Professor Dame Sue Black in scrubs with a young woman holding a camera during the Royal Institution Christmas lectures 2022. Photo by: Paul Wilkinson Photography

    Science Weekly
    Exploded heads and missing fingers: Dame Sue Black on her most memorable cases

  • Walter Sofronoff

    Queensland DNA lab to be ‘rebuilt from ground up’ after damning report, government says

October 2022

  • Lawyers outside a Queensland court

    Crime scene forensic samples deemed ‘insufficient’ showed ‘usable’ profiles in 2020, Queensland DNA inquiry hears

    Scientist Alicia Quartermain concerned evidence may have been omitted from criminal cases
  • Queensland Health’s acting director-general Shaun Drummond is seen leaving the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland at the Brisbane Magistrates Court in Brisbane, Tuesday, October 4, 2022. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

    Queensland lab could have tested more DNA samples from crime scenes for less than $1m, inquiry hears

    Health official given ‘disingenuous’ representation of impact of changing thresholds, forensic testing inquiry hears
  • Inspector David Neville outside the commission of inquiry into forensic DNA testing in Queensland

    Science, justice and revelations from Queensland’s inquiry into forensic DNA testing

    Advocates fear victims of crime are being left in the dark over alleged failures at a government lab

September 2022

  • Inspector David Neville leaves the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland at the Brisbane Magistrates Court in Brisbane, Wednesday, September 28, 2022. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

    Queensland lab failed to identify DNA from nine semen samples in rape case, inquiry told

  • a laboratory worker wearing blue plastic gloves uses a pipette and a test tube

    Queensland lab refused to test thousands of rape and murder evidence samples, inquiry told

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