News
- Earth
Global Warming Debate Gets Hotter
President Bush gets the global warming report he commissioned just days before he meets with European leaders.
- Health & Medicine
Immune attack on self halts nerve damage
T cells primed for autoimmune behavior may actually preserve nerves after a damaging blow.
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Catfish can track fish wakes in the dark
Infrared photography has revealed that catfish can stalk their prey by following wakes underwater.
- Health & Medicine
Enzyme defends germ against stomach acid
The newly solved structure of a Helicobacter pylori acid-fighting enzyme has scientists divided about how the enzyme works.
- Earth
Geologists take magnetic view through ice
A new map of the magnetic anomalies in Antarctica and the seafloor surrounding the continent is giving researchers a fresh tool to use in analyzing geologic features that lie hidden beneath thousands of feet of ice or storm-tossed seas.
- Health & Medicine
Genetically altered cells ease hemophilia
A gene therapy using skin cells that are genetically modified to make clotting proteins, multiplied in a lab, and reinjected into a person eases some bleeding in patients with severe hemophilia.
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Endangered condors lay first eggs in wild
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist has spied a trio of California condors, released to the wild from captive-breeding programs sometime over the past 6 years, attending a pair of eggs.
- Astronomy
Survey Probes Cosmos from Near to Far
Early reports from the most mammoth sky surveys ever conducted are yielding a trove of findings, including the two most distant quasars known in the universe, new knowledge about the large-scale clumping of galaxies, and more evidence about the size and distribution of asteroids in our solar system.
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Cardinal girls learn faster than boys
A female cardinal learns about as many songs as a male but in one-third the time.
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Flush-pursuers fake out fleeing prey
Birds that advertise their presence to potential prey may improve their chances of catching a meal.
- Health & Medicine
New guidelines would cut cholesterol
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has developed new guidelines for physicians that could triple the number of people taking cholesterol-lowering medication.
- Health & Medicine
Angiostatin testing in people begins
Angiostatin, a drug that cured cancer in mice, appears safe to use in preliminary tests on people with cancer.
