Forensic science is the application of the natural sciences to matters of the law. It includes a variety of different activities and specialties. In practice, forensic science draws upon the principles and methods of all the traditional sciences, such as physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics. The term forensic science is sometimes used as a synonym for criminalistics.

Forensics involves the method of collecting and analysing evidence, then using the results to help solve crimes. This can involve the analysis of fingerprints, footprints, bite marks, DNA, blood, hair, fibres, handwriting and even voice identification. Examining the scene of the crime and pathological examinations are also essential to forensic science.

Today it is not fully clear just when forensic science was created, as so much information around these days is unreliable. But whenever it was that forensic science was born, a world was opened up that now allows us to solve crimes that, less than a century ago, could not have been solved.

Even now we are still discovering new techniques that better our methods of forensic science, and over time more methods will become available to us.