News

  1. Earth

    Climate Storm: Kyoto pact is confirmed, but conflict continues

    Controversy flared over the link between climate change and increasing storm activity at the first international climate change meeting since the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol was assured.

    By David Shiga
  2. Ecosystems

    Fallout Feast: Vent crabs survive on victims of plume

    Researchers in Taiwan propose an explanation for how so many crabs can survive at shallow-water hydrothermal vents.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Anthropology

    Suddenly Civilized: New finds push back Americas’ first society

    The earliest known civilization in the Americas appears to have emerged about 5,000 years ago in what's now Peru.

    By Bruce Bower
  4. Health & Medicine

    One-Two Punch: Vaccine fights herpes with antibodies, T cells

    An experimental vaccine against genital herpes shows promise in animal tests.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Viagra eases lung pressure in patients

    Viagra eases increased blood pressure in the lungs, a condition that affects about one-third of adults with sickle-cell disease.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. 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
  11. Humans

    Tobacco treaty on its way

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

    By Janet Raloff
  12. 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