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Last week, bidding kicked off at $68,000 on a 10-day eBay auction whose prize includes personal genome sequencing, analysis, and interpretation services provided by Cambridge, Mass.-based genetics firm Knome, Inc. The auction's winner also participates

Apple apologizes for Baby Shaker

It's not elegant: it looks like a large photocopier. But the Espresso Book Machine could herald the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented his printing press more than 500 years ago.

Reuters / Video: Meteorologists in the Netherlands who have set up a virtual 'cloud laboratory' to study cloud behavior, say understanding clouds is key to predicting how world climate patterns will change.

Not astrobiologists first choice; however, red dwarf stars have now gained acceptance as potential hosts for habitable planets throughout the Universe.

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Cairo - Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai, have unearthed four new temples amidst the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city, that could have been used to impress foreign delegations visiting Egypt.

Earth Day may fall later this week, but as far as former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and other UFO enthusiasts are concerned, the real story is happening elsewhere.

Using computer simulations to analyze DNA sequence fragments from 12 Neanderthal fossils, researchers found that the species can be separated into three, or maybe four, distinct genetic groups.