News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Taking on a lethal blood cancer

    A drug called bortezomib can induce remission of an aggressive kind of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Humans

    Tobacco treaty on its way

    An international tobacco-control treaty will go into effect on Feb. 28, 2005.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Animals

    Paper wasps object to dishonest face spots

    Female wasps with dishonest faces, created by researchers who altered the wasps' natural status spots, have to cope with extra aggression.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Earth

    Shake Down: Deep tremors observed at San Andreas fault

    Patterns of activity for a type of tremor that occurs deep beneath California's San Andreas fault may offer scientists a way to foretell earthquake activity there.