The Department of Justice plans to require cheek swabs at the border, with the data then entered in a national criminal database.

The researcher stole genetically modified seeds and planned to give them to a crop research institute in China, the US Justice Department says.

The hacking involved data belonging to thousands of professors at 320 institutions worldwide.

As part of a $4.5 billion settlement with the federal government over the catastrophic 2010 oil spill, BP will continue to fund research in the Gulf of Mexico.