Water cremation, known as aquamation, is gaining popularity across the country and could become legal right here in Pennsylvania. Lindsey Ballard said the eco-friendly method has been offered to ...

CHOOSING A CASKET AND TRADITIONAL GRAVESIDE BURIAL FOR THEIR FUNERALS. NO MORE CREMATION WHERE BODIES ARE BURNED DOWN TO ASHES, IS RISING IN POPULARITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND NOW THERE’S AN EFFORT ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday passed bipartisan legislation to authorize the use of alkaline hydrolysis as a form of cremation in the Commonwealth, according ...

Members of California's Maltose Falcons, the nation's oldest homebrewing club, traveled by train to Santa Barbara's Third Window Brewing. The craft beer landscape was quite different when the Maltose ...

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown two components of glucose absorption in the small intestine: a secondary active transport through SGLT1, and unsaturated component, recently attributed mainly to ...

WHAT’S BREWING — Research on yeasts for nonalcoholic beer by Andew Maust, left, food science graduate student, and Scott Lafontaine, assistant professor of food chemistry, will help brewers develop ...

They are less costly to procure, have insignificant operating expenses, and require only marginal laboratory setup compared to their larger, floor-standing counterparts. Despite being inherently less ...

It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation to dissolve ...

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. State regulators have ordered a Texas medical school to immediately halt its ...

AS AN ALTERNATIVE. WHO IS THE MOST COMMON PUBLIC REACTION TO WATER CREMATION? SUPPORTERS EMPHASIZE, THOUGH THEY’RE NOT BOILING ANYONE. IT’S MORE LIKE PLACING THE BODY IN A BIG WASHING MACHINE.