With biometric data becoming a prime target for cybercriminals, there are best practices and strategies to help keep this ...

The Trump administration is releasing a new online government tool designed to help millions of unlawful migrants living in ...

Scientists have developed a new type of electronic skin that mimics the uniqueness of human fingerprints—except it’s even ...

The likelihood of two human fingerprints being identical is extremely low—about 1 in 640 billion. Even identical twins, ...

Police agencies in King County rely on a regional database containing fingerprints of nearly 1 million individuals to help ...

"In contrast, using brain fingerprints it is very easy to tell ... it is strongest in the parts of the brain that are uniquely human and mostly distinguish us from other species.

In this proof-of-concept study, blood plasma from more than 2,000 people was analyzed to link molecular patterns to lung cancer, extrapolating a potential “cancer fingerprint.” Plasma is the liquid ...

After scientists succeeded in sequencing the human genome in 2001 2, they quickly began working on the genomes of other apes — the closest genetic relatives to humans. Understanding the genomes ...

Credit: NASA webcast COLORADO SPRINGS — Jared Isaacman, the White House’s nominee to lead NASA, said that the agency should simultaneously pursue both a human return to the moon and crewed ...

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been charged with child sex offences. The 47-year-old Scot, who won the world title in 2006, faces historical charges relating to two children who ...

The new test works by using infrared light to detect "molecular fingerprints" of cancer in blood. (Image credit: WLADIMIR BULGAR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) To create the new blood ...