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Men looking for a quick fling prefer women with more "feminine" facial features, said a study Friday that delved into the evolutionary determinants of the mating game.

• 21 июня 2013, 17:56

Britain needs a "radical" overhaul of its scandal-hit banks, with reckless bankers facing jail and bonuses deferred for up to ten years.

• 20 июня 2013, 09:49

Pregnant women who were exposed to high levels of air pollution were twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in low pollution areas.

• 18 июня 2013, 16:00

Men and their preference for younger female mates may have led to the phenomenon of menopause in women, according to a controversial study by Canadian researchers published this week.

• 16 июня 2013, 12:27

Palaeontologists have made the surprising evolutionary discovery that ancient Australian fish may have had abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals.

• 15 июня 2013, 10:42

Giving injecting drug users a daily pill against HIV nearly halved their risk of infection by the AIDS virus.

• 13 июня 2013, 15:01

Around 9.19 million people in China had dementia in 2010, compared with 3.68 million 20 years earlier, according to a study on Friday that throws a spotlight on an emerging health crisis.

• 07 июня 2013, 17:35

A "dust trap" surrounding a young star could help explain how planets are formed.

• 07 июня 2013, 13:47

An employee who smokes costs his or her employer nearly $6,000 (4,500 euros) more per year than a non-smoker.

• 05 июня 2013, 10:21

Tamiflu, the frontline treatment for influenza, offers no benefit for patients if it is administered in double the normal dose.

• 31 мая 2013, 16:52

High doses of some commonly used pain drugs like ibuprofen can increase heart attacks, strokes and related deaths by about a third.

• 31 мая 2013, 10:01

Researchers in China said Wednesday a trial vaccine provided "significant" protection against a virus that can cause potentially deadly hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in children.

• 29 мая 2013, 18:25

People who undergo weekend non-emergency surgery in English public hospitals have an 82 percent higher chance of dying within a month than those treated on a Monday.

• 29 мая 2013, 16:14

Women who smoke and drink heavily are at a higher risk of early death than men who do the same.

• 29 мая 2013, 10:03

More than 170,000 people in Hong Kong are living in cramped subdivided flats, a government-commissioned study has found, underlining the scale of the city's housing crisis.

• 28 мая 2013, 18:32

Minerals found in craters on the Moon may be remnants of asteroids that slammed into it and not, as long believed, the satellite's innards exposed by such impacts.

• 27 мая 2013, 15:56

A high-powered commission said Wednesday that intellectual property theft was costing the United States the equivalent of all its exports to Asia and urged a tougher approach to China.

• 24 мая 2013, 11:50

Water from the world's shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003 and 2009.

• 17 мая 2013, 19:15

Separate studies of the human genome have found tantalising clues to the inherited causes of testicular cancer and non-inherited causes of congenital heart disease.

• 13 мая 2013, 11:53

Two teens in eastern China committed suicide after "failing to complete homework assignments" state-run media said on Friday, in an extreme case highlighting the immense pressure schoolchildren can face.

• 04 мая 2013, 10:27