Fingerprints have been used as a unique identifier for over 100 years — and chances are you’ve had your fingerprints inked or scanned recently. But who invented this process?

Looking for a solution, 16-year-old Elizabeth Nyamwange invented Etana—an affordable fingerprint scanner that could provide women with a form of digital identity. Her project to close the gender ...

Groundbreaking research into fingerprint detection now has an industrial application, thanks to a new invention by the scientist who developed the technique. Dr John Bond's method of identifying ...

Groundbreaking research into fingerprint detection developed at the University of Leicester now has an industrial application, thanks to a new invention by the scientist who developed the technique.

Fingerprints were used 125 years ago in an ... Here are some of our favorite crime novels that would have turned out quite a bit differently if it weren't for the invention of fingerprinting. 1.