The space shuttle Endeavour had one last hurrah last Friday - taking a tour over California before finally retiring gracefully to a life in the museum.
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Dr Roy Lowry, from Plymouth University, made sure his students would always remember the physical properties of liquid nitrogen - by using it to blow 1,500 ping pongs around the university hall.
The firm created a music video to try and persuade developers to make apps for its new software.
Nasa wants to build a manned base which can be 'parked' beyond the dark side of the moon as a 'gateway spacecraft', to serve as a starting point for manned expeditions to Mars.
Problems include faulty wi-fi connections and scratches, as well as confused weather reports from the voice-activated Siri assistant, and reports of light 'bleeding' out from the side of the phone.
Now MySpace is planning a triumphant return, and a sneak peek at the re-design suggests the pioneering social network may well be able to attract old fans and new.
The theory is based on calculations showing a high likelihood of rock fragments from planets in other star systems landing on Earth long ago.
The Nordic study held focus groups, with half of the participants categorised as 'bodily deviant' - either struggling with obesity for years, suffering burn damage, or with physical handicaps.
A groundbreaking deal could see motorists filling up with leftovers from Scottish whisky production.
Nasa today revealed this incredible image showing our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The estimated mass of the halo is comparable to the mass of all the stars in the galaxy.
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Underground radio stations have a rich history in the UK - but this device gives the term a whole new meaning. All 270 stations are represented in the 45cm by 45cm gadget, which took Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki three months to make.
The infection is as grim as it sounds: 'Zombie bees' have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.
Warring mobile phone firms could delay the launch of superfast 4G mobile phone networks in the UK with legal action, it has been claimed.
The social network is already tweaking its search capabilities - with any search a user makes in the top bar now stored and displayed by Facebook.
Google has no immediate plans to create an iPhone app to replace its dumped Maps app, the search giant claimed today.
Apple has sold more than five million of its new iPhone 5 handsets in three days despite customer grumbles about some of its software.
Scientists have found a sure-fire way for men to live longer - but most red-blooded males will find the method unpalatably painful.
The long-running research, by Concordia University in Montreal, suggests that your childhood peers from grade school may be able to best predict your success as an adult.
Social network says it has 'extensively investigated' claims - and denies there is a privacy bug that makes private messages public
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It was a rock so oddly shaped that it prompted Nasa to name it after a much loved employee who recently passed away. Now it has also been the testing ground for Curiosity's most advanced instruments.
Thanks to surgeons at Paignton Zoo, Devon, Duchess the 43-year-old Asian elephant, who only has the one eye left, should soon be seeing clearly once again.
Apple charges you £15 for a 'Lightning' charger cable for the new iPhone - or £30 for an adapter so that you can use your older accessories. Fans hoping to bypass this additional cost are out of luck.
A Reddit message board was explicitly created for users to ogle photos that were taken without the subjects' knowledge. Most focus on the buttocks or breasts of non-consenting women going about their daily lives.
Grant Paul, who develops software for Apple's iOS operating system, posted photos on his Twitter page of a 'jailbroken' iPhone 5, which allows him to install non-Apple-approved software.
This is standard practice for the iFixit team, who always deconstruct products to figure out the value and provenance of the components inside.
The clever ICEdot Crash Sensor application, developed in Oklahoma, pairs through Bluetooth with a motion detector which is attached to the rider’s helmet and senses the crash.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
For good measure Michael Tompert, from San Francisco, then took high resolution pictures which allow you to zoom in and see the destruction up close. The results are strangely beautiful but will be the stuff of nightmares for those who are obsessed with their computers or smartphones.
A father's amazing project to send his son's favourite toy to the edge of space has become a YouTube hit. Stanley the toy train was sent 18 miles above the earth attached to a weather balloon.
Chris Todd, 35, will zig-zag 66 miles across open water for two days non-stop.
If this Turkish concept sounds a little unhygienic, rest assured it is just the first rinse-cycle which uses your cast-off water to wash your cast-offs.
Google is believed to have submitted a free maps app to Apple for approval after it was dumped in the latest version of the firm's iPhone and iPad software.
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.
At first glance, it looks like any other skateboard. But in fact, this is the world's lightest electric vehicle - and is capable of reaching speeds of 20mph.
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