Новости за 10.12.2015

Good news, wine lovers: You can revive a stale bottle of your favorite vintage with a simple chemistry experiment.

The Geminid meteor shower peaks this week. Here's how to see it.

Observations made by NASA's Dawn spacecraft suggest that Ceres' many bright spots could be made primarily of hydrated magnesium sulfates. Here on Earth, magnesium sulfate is sold as Epsom salt.

A weird-headed, short-necked relative of the giraffe named after the Star Wars character Padmé Amidala has been unearthed in Spain.

Injuries that occur in cheerleading tend to be more severe than those that occur in other sports, a new study finds.

The female San Bernardino mass shooter is a rare outlier among mass killers and terrorists who are mostly men. Here's why scientists say most mass violence is carried out by men.

These contraptions are cool, but what makes them go?

Self-balancing scooters are the tech craze of 2015.

Lost for 450 years, the memorial tomb of the greatest ruler of the Ottoman Empire may have been discovered outside of a small town in Hungary.

A host female dog was impregnated with 19 embryos and delivered 7 puppies. (mix of beagle and cocker spaniels). Combined with gene editing and IVF, genetic disorders can be reduced or eliminated.

About 20 percent of U.S. children have problems with their cholesterol levels, such as high levels of "bad" cholesterol or low levels of "good" cholesterol, according to a new report.

Protein is a macronutrient that is essential to building muscle mass. It is commonly found in animal products, though is also present in other sources, such as nuts and legumes.

A pesticide that was once common in milk could be linked with Parkinson's disease, a new study finds.

How happy you are doesn't seem to affect your risk of an early death, a new study from the United Kingdom suggests.

The "Mona Lisa" may be hiding the real Lisa Gherardini beneath its surface, one scientist claims, but other experts in the field are skeptical.

The discovery of a spaniel-size ceratopsian that walked on its two hind legs reveals that Late Jurassic horned dinosaurs were much more diverse than previously thought, a new study finds.

The plant-eater Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis was discovered in China's Gobi desert and is a relative of the Triceratops. It lived in the Late Triassic period (~160 million years ago).