Science Talks

  “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ” - Arthur Conan Doyle Fingerprint! As we are already known that it is occupying only a small portion of the human body. In fact, we can also say that it’s part of our palm, toe, and shoe. But it plays a very important role nowadays. We touch things every day: a coffee mug, a door and etc. Each time we do, it is likely that we leave behind our unique signature- in our fingerprint form.            The uniqueness of fingerprints is absolutely amazing. No two people have exactly the same fingerprints. Even identical twins, with identical DNA, have a different fingerprints. This uniqueness allows fingerprints to be used in all sorts of ways, including for background checks, biometric security mass disaster identification, and of course in a criminal situations. The uniqueness of friction ridge skin is seen as one of the key premises ...