Gregory Cochran, physicist and professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, was puzzled at the unusually high prevalence of deadly genetic disorders in European Jews. Shouldn't natural selection flush these dange...

Researchers from the Universite de la Mediterranee...  ...ecies might actually be composed of several " races ":We tend to think of Neanderthals as one spe...

This July, I will be driving from London to Mongol...  ...unds. What: The Mongol Rally is an annual charity race across Eurasia where 500 cars traverse 1/3 of the...

(YouTube link) Who will win the office race -the digital camera, the mouse, the PDA, the remo...

David Baird has just completed his Herculean 112-day journey pushing a wheelbarrow across Australia (that's 4,115 km or 2,557 mi on foot). He did this to raise money for breast and prostate cancer research. The fit lo...

Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner of Fleet, Hants, England had twins seven years ago, two girls, Hayleigh appearing black, Lauren appearing white. The odds of such a combination are quite high -but now they've done it agai...

Between 1983 and 1991, Australia held an annual ul...  ...arathon of 544 miles (875 km). World's most elite racers ran from Sydney to Melbourne in 5 days - these at...  ...h was considered one of the world's most grueling races .One day, a 61-year-old Australian potato farmer n...  ...alian potato farmer named C...

I've just gotten into running in the past nine mon...  ...ly wanted to be able to run in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in October '08 because my mother-in-...  ...egrees out is no piece of cake) and completed the race swimmingly. Since then, I've found myself gettin...  ...en, I've found myself getting k...

Here's something you don't see every day. This...  ...re's something you don't see every day. This drag racer lost his axle on take-off. Notice the driver's r...