Instructional Video1:51
Instructional Video3:16
Curated Video

Relatives want answers in Brazil prison deaths

Higher Ed
Relatives of dozens of inmates killed in a prison riot this week were complaining while waiting Wednesday for authorities to liberate the bodies of their loved ones, two days after prisoners turned on each other in several facilities in...
Instructional Video2:12
Curated Video

Shooting shakes Lebanese city as Muslims mark Eid

Higher Ed
Authorities in Lebanon said a gunman who went on a shooting spree that killed four security personnel in the northern city of Tripoli, was working alone.
Instructional Video5:04
Curated Video

Thousands gather for funeral of recently identified victims

Higher Ed
Several thousand people attended a funeral service in Bosnia on Saturday for 86 Muslims who were killed by Serbs in one of the worst atrocities of the country's 1992-95 war.
Instructional Video3:21
Curated Video

Hundreds of bodies exhumed in Raqqa

Higher Ed
In an open field on the southern edges of Raqqa, workers in black uniforms and red caps are working under a scorching sun to dig up bodies from a large mass grave discovered last month near the northern city.
Instructional Video1:35
Instructional Video1:57
Curated Video

Malaysia police search area for UK girl

Higher Ed
Malaysian police said on Tuesday they found a body near where a 15-year-old London girl was reported missing.
Instructional Video1:48
Curated Video

Body recovery effort continues in Bahamas

Higher Ed
Rescue teams and other first responders on Monday continued to recover bodies of victims of Hurricane Dorian in Abaco, one of the areas of the Bahamas most affected by the storm.
Instructional Video1:52
Curated Video

Paraguay excavates to recover human remains

Higher Ed
Forensic experts in Paraguay began digging on Tuesday in what was possibly the country house of the late dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989).
Instructional Video1:17
Curated Video

Bodies of Dorian victims evacuated from Abaco

Higher Ed
Bahamian forensic personnel on the hard hit Abaco Islands began evacuating the dead after Hurricane Dorian, taking bodies from Great Abaco to Nassau for further processing.
Instructional Video2:46
Curated Video

Police reconstruct incident in which girl was killed

Higher Ed
Police in Rio de Janeiro reconstructed the circumstances Tuesday of an incident that led to the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl in one of the city's largest deprived neighbourhoods last month.
Instructional Video1:42
Curated Video

Close ground shots from scene where bodies found

Higher Ed
Police in southeastern England said 39 people were found dead Wednesday inside a large cargo truck believed to have come from Bulgaria.
Instructional Video2:09
Curated Video

More of police cordon at scene of Hanau shootings

Higher Ed
Eight people were killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau late Wednesday, authorities said.
Instructional Video4:12
Curated Video

Family believe missing Kosovans alive in Serbia

Higher Ed
Halil Hasani is convinced his four missing sons are imprisoned somewhere in Serbia, and that local authorities are not trying hard enough to find them.
News Clip11:20
Curated Video

The Surprising Things We're Learning From True Crime

Higher Ed
True crime teaches consumers many things, but it's also shaping real lives and court cases.
Instructional Video4:34
TED-Ed

What Is Dust Made Of?

6th - 12th Standards
We find dust almost everywhere, but have you ever considered it fascinating? Dust contains a variety of materials and varies greatly based on location. After learning about dust, scholars answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
Instructional Video4:19
American Chemical Society

TV Forensics: What Do CSIs Actually Do?

9th - Higher Ed Standards
TV dramas tend to exaggerate the forensic science components. Learn what true forensic chemistry looks like in an installment of a larger series covering reactions. Viewers see that chromatography, mass spectrography, and methodical...
Instructional Video9:10
Physics Girl

Solving Crimes with Infrared?

9th - Higher Ed Standards
Do you have a camera that can see through walls? Physics Girl and Nickipedia team up to explain infrared cameras as part of a larger series of videos. It offers a demonstration of the technology as well as an explanation of the science.
Instructional Video3:50
Fuse School

Spectrometry

9th - 12th
Your class' curiosity will peak during this video about the process of spectrometry. Young chemists discover how spectrometry assists forensic chemists in determining the identity of unknown substances, as well as how it played a role in...
Instructional Video4:01
Fuse School

Chromatography—Paper and Thin Layer

9th - 12th
Get ready to play detective! The eighth video in a series of ten explains two types of chemical separation methods via chromatography. The class experiences how substances move and deposit, based on solubility, then how to compare the...
Instructional Video6:09
Bozeman Science

DNA Fingerprinting

9th - 12th Standards
The chances of a DNA mismatch occurring in DNA fingerprinting is one in a billion. Here learners see how using the differences in people's DNA, specifically Short Tandem Repeats (STRs), cutting them out using restriction enzymes, and...
Instructional Video4:40
TED-Ed

What Happens to Our Bodies After We Die?

7th - 12th
Burial practices are the focus of a short video that not only investigate how and why bodies decompose, but also looks at some modern approaches to the treatment of bodies and burials.
Instructional Video5:05
Curated OER

Ice Age People in Florida?

7th - 9th
Spring breakers first gathered in Wakulla Springs, Florida, over 10,000 years ago! A video explains how geologists and archaeologists work together to uncover hidden artifacts from this time period. 
Instructional Video
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Blossoms: Using Dna to Identify People

9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the molecular biology technique of DNA fingerprinting: what it is, how it works, and how the data from these experiments are used for paternity testing and forensics. [45:48]