Police have used blood samples taken from people at birth to solve crimes and identify bodies. Since 2006, police have been able to use blood “spot samples” taken from people at birth to get DNA samples under an agreement with the Ministry of Health.     The “heel prick tests” […]

ASTEROID TO BUZZ EARTH TONIGHT: House-sized asteroid 2012 TC4 is approaching Earth today for a close encounter only 1/8th the distance to the Moon. At closest approach, the space rock will skim just outside Earth’s zone of geosynchronous communications satellites and be visible in telescopes as small as 8-inches (observing […]

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