News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Soldiers in Iraq coming down with parasitic disease

    Hundreds of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have contracted leishmaniasis, a parasite-borne disease that attacks the skin.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Probing a parasite for vulnerability

    Researchers have discovered an enzyme that is indispensable to the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, and disabling that enzyme could offer a novel treatment strategy for the disease.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Preventive drugs protect children

    Preventive treatment with inexpensive drugs decreases rainy-season cases of malaria in Senegal.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Earth

    Some temblors probably were triggered by tides

    Detailed analyses of large earthquakes suggest that some of them may have been triggered by strong tides in Earth's crust.