News
- 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.
- 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.
- Health & Medicine
One-Two Punch: Vaccine fights herpes with antibodies, T cells
An experimental vaccine against genital herpes shows promise in animal tests.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Health & Medicine
Taking on a lethal blood cancer
A drug called bortezomib can induce remission of an aggressive kind of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Humans
Tobacco treaty on its way
An international tobacco-control treaty will go into effect on Feb. 28, 2005.
- 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.
- 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.
