News

  1. Earth

    Joining the Resistance: Drug-immune microbes waft over hogs

    Many bacteria found floating within a farm building are invulnerable to multiple antibiotics, confirming that airborne dispersal could spread drug-resistant microbes from animals to people.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Astronomy

    Young and Near: Baby galaxies roam our backyard

    An ultraviolet-detecting satellite has found that youthful versions of massive galaxies like the Milky Way may be only a cosmic stone's throw away.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Expanding the therapeutic arsenal

    Two experimental drugs can send chronic myeloid leukemia into remission in patients who don't benefit from the best currently available drugs.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Health & Medicine

    Drug counters severe platelet shortage

    An experimental drug called AMG531 revs up production of platelets in people with severe shortages of these clotting agents.