FOREST LAKE, Minn. — A local funeral home is among the first in the state to offer the option of home DNA storage to families of the deceased. Last month Roberts Family Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Forest Lake began offering DNA collection …

Tom Holterman, a history teacher at Oak Creek High School, said his students will learn about their heritage by analyzing their own DNA. "It's supposed to be a journey of self-discovery for them," he said. "They do the research then, on top of that …

“There certainly are legitimate uses, but we don't feel that it's a good use of limited resources and a good use of law enforcement time and energy to take DNA samples until somebody's convicted,” said Chris Ahmuty, ACLU of Wisconsin Executive Director.

Ramos, who works for a Houma-based supply ship company that services offshore oil rigs, agreed to be interviewed by Brueggeman and provided a DNA sample at his place of work on Dec. 1. At the time, Brueggeman said, Ramos was only a "person of …

Gawker's Black Bag column is celebrating Illuminati Month by considering all sorts of theories, from crackpot to crazy. Today, Black Bag picks up one of pop culture's more recent enduring secret plots; the beloved “Tupac Shakur isn't really dead …

Some people, though, have been concerned about a darker side of Tidal, as the same folks who believe that Jay Z is a member of the Illuminati are convinced that the service he and Project Panther Bidco acquired last October is just the tool of the New …

Mark Saville drives the new Discovery Sport off-road around the testing tracks at Eastnor Castle, to find out if its any good and how it compares to both the Freelander 2. The Disco Sport shares many components with the Evoque from the B-pillars …

Dielectric elastomers are novel materials for making actuators or motors with soft and lightweight properties that can undergo large active deformations with high-energy conversion efficiencies. This has made dielectric elastomers popular for creating …

It will be all "Lights, camera…bark!" in August when one of Connecticut's most famous and cherished animal trainers and advocates, Bill Berloni, takes on yet another new venture, this time as the star of a new Discovery Family Channel (DFC) show …

(ETX), but the early-stage clinical programme is moving along. Last year the group spent £9.3m on research and development (R&D). While this left more than £33m in the bank at the year-end, chief executive Malcolm Young said the rate of cash-burn would …