Smithsonian Magazine

Going Behind the Scenes With ‘Forensic Science on Trial’

This year, the museum opened “Forensic Science on Trial,” a temporary exhibition that explores how people influence the way forensic science is used in the pursuit of justice. The exhibition’s curator ...
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Smithsonian’s “Forensic Science on Trial” Exhibition Explores What Happens When Science Enters the Courtroom

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...
PBS

Forensic Anthropology Tools of the Trade

In 1992, forensic anthropologist Mercedes (Mimi) Doretti (pictured above, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1980s) traveled to El Salvador as part of a U.N.-sponsored team to investigate the 1981 El ...
The Conversation

The Silence of the Lambs introduced the world to forensic entomology – but how much has the science changed since?

In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as Columbo and Murder, She Wrote. The US docuseries Unsolved Mysteries brought a ...