Interview with Andrew Rector, Digital Forensics Student, Bloomsburg University

Andrew, you’re currently studying Digital Forensics at Bloomsburg University. Could you tell us more about the course and w...

Forensic Software in Child Protection Cases

According to recently released statistics from ICAC, an agency whose aim is to make the internet safer for children, only 2% of reported c...

Hundreds of Errors in DNA Databases: What Do They Mean?

The other day, the New York Times reported that "[t]he Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a review of a national DNA database, has id...

The Signal, the Noise, and the Errors

Published in September 2012, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver soon reached The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction. Amaz...

Tres Mal Errors with DNA Evidence

A story in the Denver Post (Gurman 2014) begins with the disturbing news that A malfunction in a DNA processing machine led to the scrambli...

Breathalyzers and Beyond: The Unintuitive Meanings of "Measurement Error" and "True Values" in the 2009 NRC Report on Forensic Science

Five years ago, the National Research Council released its eagerly awaited and repeatedly postponed report on "Strengthening Forensic ...

Forensic Science’s Latest Proof of Uniqueness

A federally funded study on the "Determination of Unique Fracture Patterns in Glass and Glassy Polymers" affirms that fracture-pat...