Forensics

To all honorable athletes out there, be careful where you source your supplements – they could be laced with anabolic steroids!

You might think you know who won, but the race isn’t over until the analytical scientists have had their say…

Cheating athletes may be on the cusp of being able to enhance their sports performance through gene modification. But could we ever know?

Since 1968, 142 summer Olympic Games medal results have been impacted by doping violations, with 74 percent of those identified retrospectively

The latest mass spec and ion mobility advances enabling the identification of “novel” – potentially performance enhancing – substances

How a new approach to imaging could help forensics scientists retrieve fingerprints from tricky bullet casings

Once stowed away in an abandoned well, analysis of a Hominin fossil suggests we’ve found a long-lost sister lineage

Multi-isotope analysis of teeth hints at a multicultural crew on Britain's infamous Tudor vessel

Analysis of a black spot casts new light on the final hours of a deadly Danish Expedition

How hyperspectral imaging unlocked the secrets of a severely degraded Jewish parchment