Executives of American companies with voices on the deeper end of the scale earned, on average, £121,000 ($187,000) more than higher pitched colleagues, Duke University researchers found.

Google is facing a growing backlash over its ‘Glass’ eyewear, with cafe owners in the US banning the technology from their premises.

Research from the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that social networking sites such as Facebook, Tumblr and Flickr are making it harder than ever to get over a breakup.

32 year-old Dmitry Itskov (pictured) believes technology will allow him to live forever in a hologram body - and has over 20,000 supporters of his 2045 Initiative to create the technology to let him do it.

A 14-year-old science student from California has found that the magnets in second generation iPads can, in some cases, interfere with heart devices and accidentally turn them off.

German scientists have discovered that our brains can distinguish between different types of laughter, such as joyous, taunting or 'tickling', and will react differently to each.

The 1stFone, designed specifically for four to nine-year-olds, can only make and receive calls to preprogrammed numbers and has no screen.

Those of European descent still living on the continent are related to each other through a common ancestry dating back just 1,000 years, California researchers claim.

The findings, from an analysis of lunar rocks, raise new questions about the process that formed the Moon because it would mean water has been there all along.

They may look like UFOs in a far-off galaxy, but in fact these are 'space warps', strange mirror images caused by systems that act as a giant lens.

The first flying car from Massachusetts-based firm Terrafugia is due to go on sale as early as 2015. It has also unveiled a new TF-X model could be small enough to fit in a garage, and can take off from a vertical position.