Scientists unearthed a granite pebble bearing the world's oldest known human fingerprint, left by a Neanderthal approximately ...

The modality provides a larger biometric surface area, and does so without requiring contact. Furthermore, palm prints last ...

Interestingly, this small stone holds the oldest and most complete Neanderthal fingerprint ever discovered. A prehistoric ...

How those ridges spread from their starting sites — and merge — determines the overarching fingerprint shape. Fingerprints are unique and last for a lifetime. They’ve been used to identify ...

The arching, looping and whorling fingerprint shapes can be explained in part by a theory proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing. The differences in gene expression set up what’s known to ...

To engrave random wrinkling patterns on styrene–ethylene–butylene–styrene (SEBS) electronic skin, the researchers chemically ...

“Their argument that these shapes are somewhat correlated between fingers has been known from the early start of fingerprinting, when it was done manually, and it has been documented for years ...