Biometrics

To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern to access your device.

CT scans may soon link human remains to missing persons

Humans are gradually becoming cyborgs—and that’s a good thing

"Get your mechanized mitts in the air!" — Spider-Man to Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014 Sony Pictures) Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and appearing initially in a story by Lee with art by Jack Kirby in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August of 1962, Spider-Man has been a hugely popular and ever [...]

A new wearable sensor stores and transmits motion data and delivers drugs

A rare condition that causes a person be born without fingerprints can now be explained by a mutation in a single gene, a new analysis suggests

A toolkit used to identify Osama bin Laden in his hideout was probably a lot like the handheld devices used by U.S. soldiers

DNA fingerprinting scheme aims to make sure researchers are working on the right cells.

Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers are developing an iris-scanning system that will capture and compare iris images at up to 12 meters away

Security systems based on anatomical and behavioral characteristics may offer the best defense against identity theft

A new biometrics system uses the blood network in the palms of your hand to ID individuals

Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and New York State Department of Criminal Justice teamed to develop technology to capture and analyze paw prints from fishers, a species of weasel.