Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

How the unique arrays of swirls, arches, and loops on the tips of our fingers form is a longstanding scientific enigma. Now, a paper published February 9 in Cell has solved the mystery, revealing not ...

but why do we have fingerprints in the first place? Turns out, those unique whorls and loops are a mystery all on their own. Is there an evolutionary reason for fingerprints (like there is for why ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Crime scene forensic analysis has long functioned on the premise that a person's unique identity is hidden in the tiny loops and swirls of their fingerprints, but teasing that ...

A team of researchers from French, Israeli and Australian universities have conducted a series of experiments that demonstrate that people on the web can be tracked using the unique fingerprints ...

The theory and architecture behind a capacitive fingerprint scanning chip. Once captured, this digital data is analyzed to look for distinctive and unique fingerprint attributes. They can then be ...