Why do we have fingerprints? While impressive, it's not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy. Here's what the science says. Most people associate fingerprints with the ability to solve ...

An Old Babylonian clay hand tablet (circa 1800–1600 BCE) from the Yale Babylonian Collection that was likely used as a practice school exercise by a new scribe and a fingerprint of the scribe was left ...

Fingerprints are those little ridges on the tips of your fingers. They’re essentially folds of the outer layer of skin, the epidermis. The “prints” themselves are the patterns of skin oils or dirt ...

“Do you think that every fingerprint is actually unique?”It’s a question that a professor asked Gabe Guo during a casual chat while he was stuck at home during the COVID-19 lockdowns, waiting to start ...