News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Shuttling medicines via blood cells

    Researchers have developed a way of encapsulating drugs in red blood cells, which can be used to deliver low doses of anti-inflammatory drugs to cystic fibrosis patients.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Humans

    Solar series wins award for Science News

    The Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society has given its 2002 popular writing award to Ron Cowen and Sid Perkins for a two-part series on cyclic variations in the sun's activity.

    By Julie Ann Miller
  3. Agriculture

    Moos, microbes, and methane

    A feed additive could reduce methane emissions from cows.

    By John Travis

  4. Ironing out underarm odor

    Chemicals that deprive bacteria of iron may improve deodorants.