Around 43,000 years ago, a Neanderthal dipped their finger in ocher and stamped the very center of a pebble. This one small ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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