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 ...

Two solutions are combined in a darkened room, producing luminescence that lasts for several seconds. Peroxides act as an oxidizing agent. The luminol is converted to an excited-state product. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Luminol has some members that have been a part of the local scene for a long time, the quintet -- which grew out of the ashes of Your Indentured Servants -- has a relatively low profile here.

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 ...