O. J. did it. “His murder case was the watershed event,” says Barry Fisher, director of the crime laboratory for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “After that, the public became a lot more interested in forensics.” This pop culture connection is not new. “‘Quincy’ and other cop shows before ‘CSI’ have also […]

“We are in a funny position,” says Naren Shankar, Executive Producer of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” “We demand scientific realism in techniques, results, and conclusions, but we take dramatic license with how these things are rendered on film because it has to look beautiful and cool.” And it does. The Las […]

The Bones - A Virtual Lab Web Seminar, produced in collaboration with the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the University of Texas at Austin, was held on Wednesday, October 11, 2006, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. The presenters were Lauri Thompson, from the University of Texas […]

National Science Board honors Falacci and Heuton, who hatched the math-based, crime-solving drama

Cheryl Heuton and Nick Falacci, co-creators of “Numb3rs”
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April 16, 2007
The popular television drama series “Numb3rs,” about an FBI agent whose brother, a genius mathematician, helps solve crimes in the Los Angeles area by using mathematical problem-solving techniques, will receive a […]

Turn on your television any evening at 6:30 and watch the news anchors of the big networks talk about science. The stories are usually about how researchers’ warnings are being ignored by politicians, or how budgets are being cut, or how teachers are being taken to court by religious fundamentalists. Pretty depressing. […]