Tracy Letts’s eerily topical, decades-old play about a woman’s descent into a world of conspiracy theories makes its ...

They might be the last thing anyone wants to find in their home, but bed bugs could soon become one of the strangest tools in modern forensics. New research suggests the blood-sucking critters may ...

A discovery by FIU researchers could help forensic investigators close the gap on estimating time of death. Often, death investigations rely on maggots — the larvae of blow flies that are among the ...

This photo taken on October 8, 2025, shows researchers identifying the gender of bed bugs at a laboratory of the Science University of Malaysia (USM) in George Town, on Penang Island. [MOHD RASFAN / ...

From cold cases to ancient civilizations lost to time, real-world, unsolved mysteries have always captivated an audience. Countless History Channel documentaries, children’s book series, and even a ...

Researchers are finding new ways to use artificial intelligence in forensic investigations, from identifying insect species at crime scenes to organizing complex evidence in laboratories. These ...

One bug, a small black beetle with ridges along its back, caught the attention of entomologist Dr. Stephen Baca. He identified it immediately as Oiceoptima inaequale, the ridged carrion beetle, from ...

“Um, I hate them,” said Victoria Blair, a sophomore forensic science student. “They should all be put down. Every time I’m walking to class, they jump at me. I’m scared of them. So any time I see them ...

"Insects never lie. Insects are tiny witnesses," says forensic entomologist Dr. Paola Magni. On a crime scene, insects like maggots play a key role in determining time of death. Dr. Magni uses the ...

Long before Jeff Tomberlin, Ph.D., professor of forensic entomology in the Texas A&M Department of Entomology, helped investigators solve murders with maggots, he was just a kid glued to the TV ...

As a new school year begins, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus is buzzing with students ready to return to the classroom. With thousands of courses and more than 150 majors and minors to ...

1 Department of Virology, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Kean University, Union, NJ, United States The ...