Pollen helps war crime forensics
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UK scientists say pollen enabled them to help to convict people in Bosnia on charges of genocide.
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Pollen from a genetically modified grass can travel up to 21km away from its experimental planting site.
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Forensic tests will be carried out to establish when victims found in a mass grave in Afghanistan died.
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Footwear archive to track crims British scientists have scored another first in the battle to beat international crime, launching a database of shoe types.â¦
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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery. To try to identify a teenage girl found slain in a western New York cornfield in 1979, investigators have turned to a pollen-analysis technique rarely used in the United States.
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Two US researchers yesterday shared the Â£760,000 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their discovery of the molecular machinery behind the scent of lilac in the spring, the bouquet of a vintage burgundy or the smell of napalm in the morning.
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Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti  Kirov, 31 January: An investigation has been launched into the death of a serviceman belonging to a regiment guarding the Maradykovskiy [Maradykovo] plant for the destruction of chemical weapons in Kirov Region.
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WASHINGTON - For less than $200 and a cheek-swiped cotton swab, amateur historians will soon be able to add DNA results to family tree Web sites.
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Pollen from a genetically modified grass was found 21 kilometres from where it was planted, scientists reported in a study published Tuesday, raising fears of transgenic crossbreeding.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2 -- Teams of investigators and archaeological specialists searched the site of a former military base in western Mexico on Saturday for remains of victims of Mexico's "dirty war."
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A portable sensor array measures air quality to discern the causes of asthma attacks.
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A biologist investigates claims that animals flourished in the radiated 40-mile-diameter âexclusion zone.â
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UK scientists identify a molecule which may protect the body from developing food allergies.
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The Times newspaper in Britain reported on its website yesterday that the mutilated corpse of a Western woman found by US marines in the Iraqi city of Fallujah was being DNA tested to see if it was the remains of kidnapped British aid worker Margaret
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In the first trial of its kind, Austrian researchers have achieved success with an allergy vaccine using genetically engineered pollen. The findings are reported in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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A national lab is developing lunch-box-size pathogen sniffers that can spot anything from anthrax to a nasty flu. By Luke O'Brien.
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Isotopes of lead and polonium could help scientists to form more accurate estimates of when people have died.