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 ...

A compelling, innovative true crime series focused on the role of forensic science in solving some of the most perplexing crimes of our time. Looking at how examination of DNA, teeth, and insects, ...

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 ...

A young woman's body is found wrapped in plastic; unceremoniously dumped under a railway overpass in a suburb near Sydney's busy international airport. Unidentified for several months, she became ...

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland ’s “Warfare” is more defined by what it isn’t than what it is. In their Iraq War-set film, there’s never any description of a wider strategy. There are no backstories to ...