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Forensic Science Fair Projects
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DNA Forensics
Exploring a Sequencing-based Human Identification Method as a Replacement for Current Fragment Sizing Technology
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Which method is more reliable: forensic DNA analysis or microscopic hair analysis.
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Test if unique DNA sequences can create individual fingerprints that are also unique.
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Can DNA fingerprinting with the help of restriction enzymes help solve a crime scene mystery?
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Building Your Own Tool for Identifying DNA (Gel electrophoresis Chamber)
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Absorbtion and Extraction of DNA from Various Fabrics
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DNA Identification / Fingerprinting
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Research the "supermale syndrome" - criminal chromosomes - XYY Syndrome
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What is DNA Identification?
Lie-Detection / Polygraph Technology
Detect changes in the brain when a person is telling the truth and when a person is lying.
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Testing the Accuracy of Human Lie Detecting Techniques
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Build Your Own Lie-Detector / Polygraph
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It is possible to tell if you are lying or not simply through your blood pressure?
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What is Lie-Detection / Polygraph?
Biometrics
Determine which characteristic of typing is most unique and will yield a better biometric: times in between keystrokes or length of time keys are held down.
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Compare two colors (monochrome and contrast) and see which one is better for iris pattern analysis.
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2D and 3D Biometric: Recognizing Humans by Their Ears
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Research Biometrics
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What is Biometrics?
Forensic Entomology
A Forensic Study on the Effects of Seawater on the Growth Rate of Local Sarcophagid and Calliphorid Larvae
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Maggot Mass Temperature and ADH (Accumulated Degree Hours)
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Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA)
Simulate a crime scene using fake blood, and predict where the blood-shedding event occurred, using blood-spatter analysis.
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Learn about forensic science by performing balloon spatter experiments.
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Determine which blood substitute would best match the spatter patterns and drop stain patterns of real blood, so that a blood substitute may be used in an active investigation.
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Determine whether the materials used or the heights from which blood is dropped affect the diameter of the resulting spatter.
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Determine whether the materials on which the blood is dropped or the heights from which it is dropped affects the diameter and shape of the resulting spatter.
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Forensic Anthropology
Study the science of mummification by mummifying a hot dog using baking soda.
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How did the Ancient Egyptians Mummify?
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Identification by Dental Structures
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Identification by Hair Analysis
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What environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes
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Forensic Determination of Crime Suspects by Lip Prints and Chromatography
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Forensic Chemistry
Crime Scene Chemistry: The Kastle-Meyer Test for Blood
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Crime Scene Chemistry: Determine the Identity of an Unknown Chemical Substance
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Investigate how temperature affects the blue glow created by the chemical luminol.
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How ink can help forensic scientists to catch criminals.
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Demonstrate paper, gas and liquid chromatography (forensic chemistry).
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Lineup Identification
Testing for Bias in a Photo Lineup
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Find the most accurate type of criminal identification lineup (sequential lineup, sequential lineup field, simultaneous lineup, simultaneous lineup field).
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Determine if the method of identification used in a photo line up, simultaneous method (viewed all at once) vs. the sequential method (viewed one at a time), affects the accuracy of the eyewitness identification.
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Eyewitness Identification
Examining whether gender, distance from subject, and delay in recollection time affect the accuracy of eyewitness reporting.
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Eyewitness Accuracy in Children
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Find out which is a more effective method of crime solving, eyewitness accounts or handwriting analysis.
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Find out how accurate observation is done by eyewitness.
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Confidence and Accuracy in Eyewitness Identifications
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Fingerprints
Fingerprint Science Fair Projects & Experiments
Miscellany
Determine whether or not memories change over time, leading to wrongful convictions.
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Measure the rate of heat loss from an orange (representing a body) and see how it depends on the temperature of the surroundings.
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Cryogenic Roses: Can ice be used to preserve once-living things?
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Useful Links
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Forensic Science Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Safety Resources
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Forensic Science Fair Books
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