Starlight from eight BILLION years ago: First images received from the world's most powerful digital camera

One of the first images from the Dark Energy Camera, showing the spiral galaxy NGC 1365, in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth.

It's a hit! Apple reveal it took 2 MILLION preorders for the iPhone 5 in just 24 hours

Apple's iPhone 5, which goes on sale on Friday. Today the firm said it received over TWO million orders in just 24 hours.

Apple has revealed the iPhone 5 is on course to become the biggest selling gadget in the firm's history after DOUBLE the number of preorders for the previous version were placed in just 24 hours.

Why work could be bad for your brain: Stress can hinder its development, says study

Too much stress? A study suggests it is often how we deal with situations - thanks to our genes - rather than external stress

Timothy Judge, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, studied nearly 600 twins - a mix of identical and fraternal twins - who were raised and reared apart.

Instant top up: The 'intelligent ATM machine' where you can cash in your old mobile (...if you accept the price it offers you)

Californian company ecoATM is rolling the machines out in the U.S. initially

Using artificial intelligence so sophisticated it can even see if a screen is cracked, the ecoATM kiosks evaluate unwanted goods for resale and recycling - hoping to inspire people to go green.

Want to stay healthy? A 'can do' attitude really does made a difference, experts claim

Researchers say a positive, 'can do' attitude, such as that displayed by the 2012 Gamesmakers, seen here doing the Mobot, is the key to a healthy life

Your attitude really can influence your health, Australian researchers have claimed.

There's no place like home! Artist adds GPS to a pair of shoes so you can always be guided back with a click of the heels

Walk this way: The shoes contain LEDs which point you in the right direction and give you a progress bar gauge

Now artist Dominic Wilcox has combined cinema nostalgia with high-tech wizardry by combining shoes with a GPS circuit-board and blinking LED lights to point you in the right direction.

The 'genetic tags' that tell a bee what to do

HONEY BEE worker Apis mellifera

It has long been known that, in the bee world, there are two main jobs available - feeding and grooming the queen, or foraging for nectar and pollen.

Re-inventing the wheel: 'Bike of the future' that adjusts your seating depending on the terrain

So if you art going uphill, the cockpit moves backgrounds and places the rider into a more upright position. heading downhill, the seat will move you forward and into a lower position to give you more speed and control.

The Cycling Sports Group has begun demonstrating its prototype bike at biking exhibitions, displaying the innovative 'cockpit' that can glide back and forth without the need to make your own adjustments. So if you art going uphill, the cockpit moves backgrounds and places the rider into a more upright position. heading downhill, the seat will move you forward and into a lower position to give you more speed and control.

Bing

The DIY space project set to send 1,000 school experiments (and three marriage proposals) to the edge of space - inside ping pong balls

SPACE.jpg

The private project will use weather balloons to take the school projects to a height of 100,000 feet. Some of the balls will also contain personal messages - with three wedding proposals onboard.

Bringing down the House: Researchers say chaos theory can predict a dice roll (but the maths required is so exact it is still 'effectively random')

Predictable? Researchers believe that Chaos Theory could give the answer to a roll of the dice before it lands

Naturally, the researchers, at the Technical University of Lodz, need to know some of the starting variables, such as the friction of the table, air conditions and the acceleration of gravity.

Having pre-wedding jitters? Then DON'T go through with it, say psychologists

Unhappy bride: Psychologists say brides with doubts should consider their options

The University of California, Los Angeles, study demonstrates that pre-wedding uncertainty, especially among women, predicts higher divorce rates and less marital satisfaction years later.

Scientists promise end to sensitive nashers with film coating made from same material as tooth enamel

Reason to smile: Japanese scientists can now patch your teeth

The 'tooth patch' is a hard-wearing and ultra-flexible material made from hydroxyapatite, the main mineral in tooth enamel.

The perfect ring of fire: Photographer in Texas reveals stunning image of eclipse which amazed America in May

A Perfect Circle: The moon fits precisely within the sun's circumference, thanks to the perspective from Earth

Former news photographer Phillip Jones, 46, snapped these stunning images in Bledsoe, Texas, earlier this year, when the moon blocked 90 per cent of the sun to Americans.

Just five genes ‘could determine what type of face you have’ in discovery that may lead to new ways of producing police mugshots

The genes are associated with different facial shapes

Researchers from the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands have identified five genes associated with different facial shapes.

It's on the way! Apple puts blueprints of iPhone 5 online as first shipments of the must-have handset leave China

Taller yet thinner: The iPhone 5 has gained an increased screen size and a new dock connector

Fans have been using the UPS delivery company's website to figure out when their phone will arrive, and by doing so have shown that that the first shipments left ZhengZhou in China yesterday.

Take a lesson from your older brother... Opportunity shows up Curiosity - by beaming back images of mystery 'blueberries' on Mars

Martnan 'blueberries': This is a 2.4inches (6cms) patch of outcrop on the western rim of Endeavour Crater. The individual spherules are up to about three millimeters in diameter

Now the Opportunity has been joined by the Curiosity - but the older brother is still proving its worth, capturing the geological formations which show how Mars was once a wet world with surface water. The small spherical objects in this image from Opportunity are tiny mineral-rich nodules, nicknamed 'blueberries' by NASA, which are sticking out of the face of a crater.

Australians discover surely the largest wombat - the size of an elephant - to ever walk the Earth (...and yes they called it 'Shirley')

Giant marsupial: Cute when small... But more like Jurassic Park when the creature in question is the size of an elephant

This colossal marsupial is something quite different, for these are the remains of a wombat which strolled the Earth 2.5million years - and it was the size of an elephant.

How Corrie's Ken Barlow is only four degrees away from Kevin Bacon: Google's search tweak lets us all play every movie buff's favourite trivia game

Centre of the universe? Almost every actor can be linked to Kevin Bacon, usually within two or three people

The game was borne out of a statement the actor made in 1994, when he said he has worked with everyone in Hollywood, or knew someone who had worked with them.

It's an eclipse... but not as we know it: Curiosity rover captures amazing photograph of Martian moon moving across the face of the sun

Eclipse: This picture was taken from the surface of Mars by the Curiosity rover and shows the moon Phobos moving across the face of the sun

The object appearing to take a 'bite' out of the sun's light is not our moon, but Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars.

How your phone could save your life: Army bomb disposal expert creates app to help spot landmines

x

Richard Stevens, 42, spent 22 years in the Royal Engineers defusing explosives in locations around the world - and has now created an app to pass on his expertise to travellers.

Are 'Virgin births' common in nature? Researchers find two snakes which ignore nearby males to create life asexually

No men needed: A pit viper gave birth to a litter of snakes without insemination

Both the copperhead snake and the pit viper, which live in the wild in the U.S., surprised researchers, after they found a pregnant female from each species which created life asexually.

Researchers say arousal 'dampens women's natural disgust response'

Comfy in bed: The study suggested that, for women at least, sexual arousal reduces the disgust response

The Netherlands study asked women to perform various disgusting-seeming actions, like drinking from a cup with an insect in it or wiping their hands with a used tissue.

More than £340m of songs are illegally lifted from web by British music fans in just six months

Slowing market: Record labels recognise that the illegal download business is damaging to their sales

Millions of Britons are breaking the law rather than paying for music, evidence from the Digital Music Index by analysts Musicmetric has shown.

The £10 cardboard bicycle you CAN ride in the rain

The £10 cardboard bicycle that could revolutionise third world transport. It is coated with a waterproof resin to protect it in the rain.

A bicycle made of cardboard may seem an unlikely form of transport - but one inventor claims to have developed one that costs just £10 to make. It is coated with a special resin to make it waterproof.

On display for the first time in 30,000 years: Britain's biggest meteorite, weighing 200lb, enters museum after 80 years as family heirloom

Massive: The meteorite from Lake House

After sitting on the step of Lake House near Wilsford-cum-Lake, Wiltshire, since the 1900s, the giant rock is on display for the first time at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum from today.

The carbon dioxide SNOW on Mars: NASA believes Red Planet is only place in solar system with freak weather phenomenon

Floating through the void, Mars sits in peace, although with a light fluttering of 'snow' at the poles, as shown in this artist's impression

Frozen carbon dioxide, better known as 'dry ice', requires temperatures of about -125C (-193F) which is much colder than needed for freezing water.

Not so scary now: Researchers find male killer whales are 'mummy's boys'

Killer whales being filmed for the BBC's Frozen Planet. Researchers now believe that males stay with their mothers far longer than previously thought.

Scientists in York have discovered that mother killer whales have the longest menopause of any non-human species - so they can care for their adult sons.

No more needles: Painless laser injection could make jabs a thing of the past

Medical history: The research in Seoul could make the jab a thing of a past

The process, developed at Seoul National University in South Korea, could revolutionise how we receive annual flu shots, childhood immunisations, and other treatments that involve piercing the skin with a needle.

Down to Earth! Astronauts touch down in Kazakhstan after four months on board International Space Station

Touchdown! The lander made contact with the Kazakhstan steppes early on Monday morning

NASA's Joe Acaba and Russian colleagues Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin undocked from the orbiting laboratory somewhere over Nairobi around three and a half hours before touchdown.

The 'witch's broom' in space (actually the remains of a cosmic explosion from 11,000 years ago)

The oddly-shaped Pencil Nebula (NGC 2736) - the remnants of a hufge explosion - is pictured in this image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile

Astronomers know it as the Pencil Nebula - but fans of fairytales would probably have called it The Witch's Broom. This new image was taken by the ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.

Death Valley IS the hottest place on the planet with record 134F in 1913 (... after officials dismiss 136F reading made 80 years ago in Libya)

Death Valley owes its hot weather to its extremely low elevation - it sits at nearly 300 feet below sea level - and dry climate

On September 13, 1922, the barometer hit 58C (136.4F) in El Azizia, Libya, instantly dismissing the 57C (134F) measurement made in the baked Californian sun of Death Valley nine years earlier.