On this day, March 25, in 1878, Frances Glessner Lee, a millionaire heiress who revolutionized the study of crime scene investigation, was born. Lee, raised on Sherlock Holmes tales, founded Harvard’s ...

The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science’s latest exhibition invites visitors to solve a crime utilizing the same logical reasoning and deduction used by literary hero Sherlock Holmes. In ...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever, but that doesn’t mean he can’t help you solve a few of your own problems. A new exhibition at the Frost Museum of Science wants you to help ...

I was struck by this similarity while watching a recent television show on how the Sherlock Holmes stories affected modern forensic science. These stories introduced a new approach to solving a crime: ...

Before "Columbo," before "Magnum P.I.," before "Monk," there was a real-life crime solver named Oscar Heinrich. Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story of this pioneering forensic scientist in a new book ...

Detectives and scientists have a lot in common. Both collect data, develop hypotheses and test their assumptions. And both pursue evidence in the hope of a definitive finding. Science was key to the ...