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A coalition of Stanford scientists has released the most detailed road map yet of human diversity, offering insight into the emergence and restless migration of the world’s populations.
Using the Stanford Human Genome Center to study genetic variations in almost 1,000 individuals from 51 populations, the team has completed the largest analysis to date of […]

The new digital camera was so tiny it fitted into our shirt pocket but the user’s manual that came with it was bigger than Anna Karenina. I knew it would be like that. You cannot make the transition to high-tech equipment without pain, boredom, an instructional DVD and a tutorial or two.
The old camera had […]

Surfers seeking sexual thrills are helping to inspire new and innovative technologies, according to a cyber-sex expert from the University of Portsmouth.
Dr Trudy Barber, an expert on cyberspace and sexual subcultures, made the claim during the Royal Society of Medicine’s Sexual Pleasures conference this week.
Fetishism and sexual deviation are helping to change the way people […]

By Richard Elias
news.scotsman
PATROLLING the remote shores and quiet villages of one of Scotland’s most picturesque regions may be a dream come true but it does have drawbacks.
As the officers of Northern Constabulary will tell you, having to go back to the station to be briefed on details of the latest crime or missing person can […]

BOSTON - Rocky planets like Earth could be found around most sunlike stars in our galaxy, new research suggests, further raising hopes that scientists will someday find E.T. or at least primitive life beyond our solar system.
The finding is based on an analysis of dust around 309 stars with masses comparable to our sun.
NASA’s Spitzer […]

HOUSTON, - (Jeff Franks, Reuters) - After an emotional goodbye ceremony, astronauts closed the hatches between space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station on Sunday in preparation for the shuttle’s Monday departure.
The 10 astronauts hugged and shook hands as they floated together in space for a final time on a mission that saw the […]

A firm that calls itself a “locator company” is offering a site to help people find radio stations that carry the Super Bowl.
SpatialPoint said the site “uses Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Virtual Earth and SpatialPoint Atlas to allow users to enter a location where they will be for the game, or an origin […]