The clients had paid many thousands of dollars for the Chinese silk samples with the bird motifs and now wanted reassurance that they were indeed from the Warring States period (about 480–221 B.C.).

The bond between art and anatomy is ancient. Leonardo da Vinci once filled his notebooks with meticulous drawings of muscles, bones and the fragile scaffolding of the human face. On a campus in ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. It’s been more than 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci died. Yet, in those intervening ...

While I have a history of working as an art therapist in the prisons and have recently been involved with the courts in different capacities, I have made it clear that I am not a forensic art ...

DOVER — Dover Public Library on Monday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. will host “Forensic Science Roadshow” with Paul Zambella, a former forensic scientist at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory. This ...

FIU’s Global Forensic and Justice Center does not resemble the dimly lit laboratories typically portrayed on crime shows, nor does that style of melodrama pervade its halls. Instead, the center aims ...