Rocket Planes Scheduled to Race Next Week
	Two of the most promising concepts in the quest to establish a future commercial space flight service, the Armadillo and the XCOR rocket planes, designed and built by the Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas and by the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, are scheduled to flight a head-to-head race next week, as part of the AA AirVenture air show organized by the Rocket Racing League. RRL is a company founded by X-Prize Foundation chair ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scandinavian Pure Race Theory Full of Hot Air
	While studying the human remains found in two ancient Danish burial sites dated as far back as the iron age researchers from the University of Copenhagen discovered the remains of a man that appears to be of Arabian origin, meaning that during the iron age humans were much more mobile than previously though and that Danish people living in small isolated communities may be nothing but a myth. The two sites are located in the Zealand island ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Disappearance of a Human Race
	You surely have heard about the Tasmanian devil. You understand why devil, but what do you know about the island of Tasmania? It is a land located between 40o 38' and 43o 39' S, off southeastern Australia, being slightly larger than the island of Ireland (with a similar clime, too). The wet cool temperate climate is very contrasting, with powerful west winds. July and August are the coldest months of the year (that is the Aust ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 17:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Enigma of the Natives of Tierra del Fuego
	One of the most primitive human groups on Earth were the native inhabitants of the Tierra del Fuego ("Land of Fire") island, at the southern tip of South America, a stormy, cold and inhospitable area, discovered by Magellan in 1520. The weather is cloudy almost all year long and violent storms are accompanied by tremendous showers, preceded by powerful hurricanes. The harsh clime is due to the freezing humid current, coming from ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 16:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Polynesians Came from Taiwan
	What's behind the racial mix we call Polynesians and Micronesians (and think about from Hawaiians to Maori)? A new research carried out by a team led by Jonathan Friedlaender points that the race of the Pacific islanders could be the result of East Asians who quickly island-hopped through Melanesia (New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and nearby archipelagos of Vanuatu and Fiji), inhabited by the so-called Black Asians. The new DNA a ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Are the Australian Aborigines?
	The Australian Aborigines form together with the Bushmen and pygmies one of the oldest human race. They are one of the first human groups to have moved out of Africa perhaps 60,000 years ago. This group formed a race later known as Black Asians. 12,000 years ago, they were the main inhabitants of India, Indochina, Indonesia, New Guinea, Melanesia, and perhaps even eastern China. They make the most primitive form of this race, later types b ... [read more >>]
	05 January 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Are the Pygmies so Short? Because of Early Sex!
	Pygmies make the smallest human race, but they are not dwarfs. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of just 1.45 m (4 ft 10 in) and women of 1.33 m (4 ft, 1in), still they do not represent a dwarf variant of the Black Africans. Their body proportions are the same with those of other humans, that's why their heads look large compared to the rest of the body. But otherwise, they are perfectly proportioned, whereas dwa ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Are the Pygmies?
	Europeans regarded them as part of myths for long, the old Egyptian and Greek texts mentioned the existence of very short people in Africa. Ancient Greeks spoke about "Pugmaeus" ("foot" as a measure unit). But in 1874, a German explorer met the first pygmies ever seen by a European in the current Congo republic. Still, pygmies are not dwarf individuals. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of jus ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 13:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do Asians Have Thicker Hair Fibers?
	Being bald or boasting a "leonine mane", having straight or curled hair, blond or black… it's all in the genes. And while you're admiring the silky hair of the East Asian girls, you should know one fact: their hair fibers are 30% larger than those of Africans and 50% than those of the Europeans. A new research presented last week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics has unveiled the mystery ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do Europeans Have Such Diversely Colored Hair/Eye/Skin?
	For the Europeans, which are generally unaccustomed to seeing people of other races, Asians and Blacks look all the same at first. This is due to the fact that, amongst Europeans, there is a huge variation inside the same population when it comes to eye/hair/skin color, while they see just black haired brown eyed people in other races. There are some tens of mutations that induced these variation amongst Europeans, explaining so many h ... [read more >>]
	24 October 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“FIA World Rally Championship” Races to Handsets
	"FIA World Rally Championship" will be available from now on at a global scale, bringing car racing fun to handsets everywhere. I-play will try to bring the intense racing feeling on mobile phones through this officially licensed WRC mobile game. Millions of fans take part in World Rally Championship events every year and the WRC website alone regularly attracts over half a million visitors every month. Such a mobile ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Black Homosexuals - Mentally Healthier Than White Homosexuals
	People that are both black and gay could be seen as having a tough life. Rejection from all sides. But a research made at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations, blacks and Latinos did not find them to have more mental issues than their white counterparts. This contradicts the theory that stress linked to prejudice of racism and homophobia would make this category more vulnera ... [read more >>]
	03 October 2007, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

9 Things You Did not Know about the Chinese and Mongoloid Race
	About 200,000 years ago, in Eastern Africa a Homo group started the evolution towards Homo sapiens, the modern human. About 100,000 years ago, modern humans entered South Asia and by 70,000 years ago they were present in southern China. 40,000 years ago, they entered Europe and this ancestral type was called "Cro-Magnon". About 55,000 humans from southern Asia entered Australia. But all these groups are not what we see today in C ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First Americans Were Black!
	It was long believed for a long time that the Amerindians met by the Europeans in the 15th century in the Americas were the first inhabitants of the New World and that 12,000 years ago, three waves of Proto-Mongoloid migratory people crossed the Behring area to the Americas. But new and not so new discoveries revealed that the first inhabitants of America belonged to the Negroid type (Blacks). Now, you do not have to think they wer ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MotoGP 07 Races the Mobile Way in 3D
	THQ Wireless will bring the fourth game in the series of MotoGP titles for mobile handsets under the name of MotoGP 07. This will bring out the racer in all mobile gamers, with some highly realistic and intense moto sports challenges. Mobile games have really ... [read more >>]
	30 August 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who are the Papuans?
	On the second biggest island in the world, there lives one of the oldest human populations: the Papuans. Today, the island has about 6.9 million inhabitants. New Guinea has mountains up to 5,030 m high (16,700 ft) which display glaciers in an equatorial area, and the vegetation goes from coastal mangroves and marshes with sago palms to lowland rainforests, home of ebony trees and ironwood to savannas and Eucalyptus while the top of the mou ... [read more >>]
	18 August 2007, 07:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do All the Chinese Look the Same?
	It is a well known fact that for a Westerner, all the Chinese or Japanese faces look the same. The fact may have some triviality in it, but it can lead from embarrassment or social castigation to eye-witness misidentifications, which is already a severer effect. But what induces the cross-race effect is still a scientific puzzle. Some psychologists say that in a society in which segregation is the norm, people are not "t ... [read more >>]
	15 August 2007, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Europeans Rooted in Asia, Not Africa
	Africa may have been the cradle of the human evolution, but it scarcely shared its human populations with the chilly Europe. The first species of Homo entering Europe appears to have come rather from Asia, than Africa. An international research team has found that Asians played a more important role in the settlement of Europe than Africans did. The team was led by Maria Martinon-Torres of the National Center for the Investiga ... [read more >>]
	07 August 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Tallest People in the World
	Africa is a continent of the extremes. And the cradle of humankind. This is where the shortest people, the pygmies, appeared and still live. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of just 1.45 m (4.34 ft) and women of 1.33 m (4 ft)! But pygmies are not a dwarf variant of the Black Africans. Their heads look large compared to the rest of the body. But otherwise, they are perfectly proportioned (the dwarfs are deformed). ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's the Origin of Human Languages?
	This is really ambitious: a project attempting to track down all human language to a common oldest language ever, "alive" 50,000 years ago. It is then when Homo sapiens, who had emerged at least 150,000 years before, suddenly changed behavior. Until then, Homo sapiens was not very different from the Neanderthals. Both buried their dead, employed stone tools, and had some form of communication, mostly gestural. "Almost ove ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

In 200 Years' Time, Natural Blond Women Will Be Extinct!
	In two centuries’ time, the suicide blond will no longer exist. Scientists say that in 200 years the mix of races will make natural blond hair become a rarity. Researchers cited by the French publication "Le Monde" say that the number of natural blond people will decrease significantly in the following decades. They said the last blond will be born in Finland by 2,200, but the World Health Organization did not comment on this ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2007, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sprint Can Make You Millionaire
	Sprint Nextel has launched a promotion that can make you win no less than 1 million dollars. The promotion is called "The SprintSpeed Million", it is presented by Motorola and it has to do with car racing. It doesn't matter if you're a big race fan or you hardly know anything about racing. If you feel lucky, all you have to do is participate and select the driver you think will win this year's NASCAR ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2007, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Both Australian Aborigines and Europeans Rooted in Africa
	Europeans like to believe they have evolved on their own continent. That's nonsense. All European populations came from Asia (all current racial types) or Africa (just the Cro-Magnon), but always via Asia. In fact, the famous Cro-Magnon people were by no means white but very black (not exactly the African Black type but rather the Australian Black type), despite the fact they are falsely represented as tall and blond-ha ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2007, 03:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

"4 Wheel Xtreme" Experience
	I-play has announced the launch of “4 Wheel Xtreme”, from Xendex. The game has “action” as its main defining feature: it's meant to entertain its players in an intense, overwhelming way as they race, jump, nitro- ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2007, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Water Does Not Cool Down (Marathon) Runners
	Water is a cooling factor for the heated body of a runner. This old concept was adopted by the sportsmen believing that drinking large water amounts will maintain their body's temperature down, improving performance. But a new research made at University of Exeter by a team led by Dr. Chris Byrne revealed that large fluid intake does not induce any of these effects. The average runner loses 1-1.5 liters of sweat each hou ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2007, 09:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Interracial Couples Invest More in Their Children
	Older parents are considered selfish and conservative, adoptive parents as people with no “biological” connection to the children, and interracial couples ignore the challenges that a mixed-bred child faces. A new research proves that at least in the last case, this is wrong. Parents of different races, like white father and Asian-American mother, were found to invest more time and money on their kids than parents of the ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2007, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hispanic Women Are Prone to Earlier and More Dangerous Breast Cancer
	Recent researches linked a higher and more dangerous incidence of breast cancer in Black women compared to White women, and this difference seemed to be connected to genetic factors. Now, a new research reveals a similar difference between Hispanic women and non-Hispanic women in US, also linked more to biological factors rather than access to healthcare system. Analyzing breast cancer cases in a managed health care system, the res ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2007, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pygmies
	Even if the old Egyptian and Greek texts mentioned the existence of very short people inside the heart of Africa, for a long time this was considered just a fiction. “Pygmaeus” in ancient Greek means feet. This was considered so till 1874, when a German explorer encountered the first pygmies ever seen by an European in the current Congo republic. Despite what many could think, the pygmies are not dwarf individuals. Amongst ... [read more >>]
	30 March 2007, 11:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Harley-Davidson Motorcycles: Race to the Rally
	Activision could have been better off without this title underneath their protective wing. A great brand doesn't make a good game and I guess that there are few people in the world that haven't heard about Harley-Davidson and their great bikes. I'm not very passionate when it comes to motorcycles, engines or exhaust pipes, but I was a fan of the Orange County Chopper show. That was my only contact with the exciting world of ... [read more >>]
	23 March 2007, 07:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Black Men More Likely to Die of Breast Cancer than White Men
	It may seem strange but even if in women, breast cancer is the second most deadly cancer type after lung cancer, this condition also affects men, as the breast is composed of the same tissues in both man and woman. Less than 1% of breast cancers occur in men but the condition is more severe in men than in women. Men with gynecomastia (a condition in which men grow female-like breasts) do not have a higher risk of developing breast ... [read more >>]
	17 March 2007, 07:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Caries Bug Explains The Origin of the Human Races
	Our parasites are so intimately attached to us that they share not only their life with us, but also their evolution, a phenomenon called co-evolution. That's why the way we evolved can be traced in the way our bugs evolved. A new research made at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) comes with surprising evidence on how early humans started colonizing the planet, spreading out of Africa to Asia, based for the firs ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pig DNA Shows How Early Humans Colonized the Pacific Islands
	Pigs are not just for ham; indigenous pigs can trace the origin of the people that raise them. DNA analysis of wild and domestic pigs has made archaeologists change the ideas of where the Malayo-Polynesian colonists originated and which their migration routes were so that they reached the remote Pacific islands. Researchers from Durham University and the University of Oxford, investigating DNA and tooth morphology in modern and anci ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pregnancy Length Varies Genetically Amongst Human Races
	A new British research found a very different pattern amongst races and the possibility of complications during labor, whether before, during or after giving birth. South Asian women are at a higher risk of delivering babies prone to perinatal mortality (death before, during or shortly after birth) compared to black or white women. The World Health Organization states as post-term pregnancy when it passes of 41 weeks from ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2007, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Where Do the Names of Some Peoples Come From?
	Anthropologists have noticed that most primitive tribes name themselves by the word that in their name means "people". But many others are known by the names other people gave to them. Sometimes, these names are not in conformity with the reality, in other situations they are. Let’s see the roots of some names. Bushmen, an ancestral African race (they are considered the oldest living human race) live today r ... [read more >>]
	02 March 2007, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia