Fingerprints feel like a distinctly primate thing, and mostly they are. Humans have them, ...

It can take days for law enforcement agencies to visualize and process a suspect’s fingerprints. Now, thanks to a protein taken from jellyfish – which in the summer months off the coast of Israel and ...

Identity recognition is probably the least important function our fingerprints might serve for us. Here’s how and why they evolved in the first place. You press your fingertip to a phone screen to ...

Researchers from New York University have found a way to produce fake fingerprints using artificial intelligence that could fool biometric scanners (or the human eye) into thinking they're the real ...