News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Getting the iron out

    A new oral drug called ICL670 works as well as an injectable treatment in relieving iron overload in the blood.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Protein vaccine slows leukemia

    A cancer vaccine fashioned from a piece of a compound called proteinase-3 shows promise against leukemia.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Astronomy

    News of the Early Universe: Findings from the cosmic microwave background

    The most detailed snapshots so far of the infant universe confirm that the cosmos consists mostly of mystery material, called dark energy, that accelerates the universe's expansion.

    By Ron Cowen
  4. Astronomy

    News of the Early Universe: Findings from the cosmic microwave background

    The most detailed snapshots so far of the infant universe confirm that the cosmos consists mostly of mystery material, called dark energy, that accelerates the universe's expansion.