news in brief.

Reports on news and developments in science. Researchers at the Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland, California's used of the bacteria, Bacillus anthracis, to create an anthrax vaccine; Russian Supreme Court's overturn of the acquittal of Valentin Danilov, a physicist accused of spying; University of Constance in Germany's withdrawal of the PhD of Jan Hendrik Schon, the German physicist who fabricated data in high-profile papers produced during his stay at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.