Новости за 04.02.2016

Sure, complain about the music, but modern halftime shows are nothing compared to the horrors witnessed in ancient Rome.

Your body mass index, or BMI, may not be an accurate indicator of your risk of heart disease or diabetes, new research finds.

A group of scientists argues that racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out of biological studies.

Eating fish during pregnancy may be good for a baby's brain, a new study finds.

Archaeological treasures — including Etruscan coffins, statues, and busts that were hidden in a Geneva warehouse, likely by a disgraced British art dealer — have found their way back to Italy.

Forty-five boxes of antiquities have been returned to Italy after they were confiscated by Swiss authorities at a warehouse in Geneva. These artifacts were likely dug up by tomb robbers in central Italy, where the Etruscan civilization flourished.

Duck-billed dinosaurs and an ancient wildebeest-like animal lived tens of millions of years apart, but they have strikingly similar, peculiar noses, a new study finds.

A New York Times bestselling nonfiction writer and poet, Cristin O'Keefe Apotowicz is the author of six books of poetry as well as the nonfiction book.

A new transparent, bendable pressure sensor could be slipped into a pair and help doctors check patients for cancer, researchers say.

A new study finds that cities whose teams play in the Super Bowl have an increase in deaths due to flu among older adults that year.

Prolonged hammering and chiseling accelerated degenerative arthritis in the hands of Michelangelo.

The near-Earth asteroid 2013 TX68, which is thought to be about 100 feet long, will zoom past our planet on March 5. The space rock could come as close as 11,000 miles or stay up to 9 million miles away during the flyby, researchers say.

Four new species of deep-sea flatwormlike animals that resemble deflated whoopee cushions and lack complex organs have solved a complicated puzzle about their group's placement on the tree of life, scientists found.

Looping, swirling, whipping magnetic fields – not visible to the naked eye – power and direct titanic explosions off the Sun’s surface.

New earbuds from the Here Active Listening can now instantly transform sounds from your surroundings. These wearable devices seek to "augment reality" — in this case, your soundscape.

The fault that lies beneath the Himalayas is kinked, with a subterranean ramp that grows the mountains in between major earthquakes, new research finds.

Tapeworms are flat, segmented parasites that can grow in a host's intestine and feed for 30 years.

Alternative therapies have been used to treat infections since antiquity, but none are as reliably safe and effective as modern antimicrobial therapy.

Legionnaires' disease may be able to spread from one person to another, in rare cases.

People with brain injuries may have a buildup of the same plaques in their brains seen in people with Alzheimer's disease, a small, new study suggests.

It's now possible to scale the brilliant, snowcapped peaks of Mont Blanc, one of Europe's tallest mountains, from the comfort of your couch.

Can getting rid of certain cells lead to a longer life?