Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How do we get the fingerprints we have? – Oscar ...

Explore how digital fingerprints track online activity, their role in privacy, cybersecurity risks, and why protecting your ...

Why do we have fingerprints? While impressive, it's not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy. Here's what the science says. Most people associate fingerprints with the ability to solve ...

Maybe that’s why cats don’t have fingerprints like yours. I asked my friend Katherine Corn about that. She’s an evolutionary functional morphologist. She studies how animal bodies evolved to do all ...

As anyone who's ever read a crime novel or watched a cop show knows, there's nothing like a fingerprint to convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent … except, that is, when it doesn't. Long the ...

Passwords are a pain in the ass. They're either easy to crack or hard to remember, and when breaches occur you have to come up with a whole new one. So people are trying to do away with passwords ...

An Old Babylonian clay hand tablet (circa 1800–1600 BCE) from the Yale Babylonian Collection that was likely used as a practice school exercise by a new scribe and a fingerprint of the scribe was left ...