Spritz luminol on your pennies and they’ll glow. Don’t worry! It’s not blood — your penny’s just been framed. We’ve shown you how to make your pennies glow with some heat and some acetone, but pennies ...

A potential rival to the storied forensics tool luminol has emerged. Researchers show that using a hand steamer in combination with thermal imaging, a visualization technique they term "steam ...

Watch even one episode of the various CSI shows or any of its imitators, and you’re likely to see a crime scene investigator whip out their bottle of luminol. The chemical product is commonly used for ...

Qun Song, Mingming Ma, and their team at the University of Science and Technology of China created this rainbow of colors starting with just one common luminescent molecule, luminol. By adding ...

WATERVILLE -- The chemical police used to discover the blood of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds in her home can literally shed light on an investigation. WATERVILLE — The chemical police used to ...

Luminol gets trotted out pretty frequently on TV crime shows, but a new technique might someday compete with the storied forensics tool as a police procedural plot device and, perhaps more importantly ...