A Canadian transportation planner used flight data for more than 58,000 global flights to create these stunning visualisations
NEW San Francisco engineer Ben Kokes created the unique ring to propose to his girlfriend. When the pair are close by, tiny lights on the ring glow. The ring took five months to perfect, and Kokes is already hard at work on a wedding ring with the same capabilities. ...read
Australian scientists say immune cells called macrophages could be vital for regeneration - and could help scientists control the process and even use it in humans.
Twitter has launched two-step logins following a number of serious hacks. The feature, called login verification, can be enabled from a user's account settings page and requires a unique six-digit code be entered each time a user logins into their account.
US researchers analysed tooth of a 10-12 year-old child that lived in a cave in Belgium around 100,000 years ago - and found it it was breastfed exclusively for seven months followed by seven months of supplementation.
A rare Nasa camera used aboard Skylab, the first US Space Station, which orbited the Earth in 1973, is set to be auctioned.
Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago (pictured) are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, California astronomers have found.
Scientists from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have tested the effects of reservatrol, an ingredient found in red wine, on worms. It was found to increase lifespan by 60% and a similar technique could work on humans, they believe.
Teens told researchers there were too many adults on Facebook and too much sharing of teenage angst and inane details like what a friend ate for dinner.
A YouTube video shows three different kinds of 3D printed bullets being fired at various targets using a Mossberg 590 shotgun. The plastic pellets are fitted into regular shotgun casing with lead shot added to give them weight.
The top 10 best new species, all discovered in 2012, have been unveiled by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. Among the winners was a glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a 7mm frog and a butterfly discovered on Flickr. A total of 140 species were submitted and scientists claim we discover an average of 18,000 species worldwide every year.
The £100 Scanadu Scout can measure heart rate, temperature, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, respiratory rate, ECG and emotional stress. It takes the readings when held to the forehead and then uses Bluetooth to send them to a smartphone app (top left), much like the Star Trek tricorder (bottom right).
Scientists studying radiation data from the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft have found unexpected anomalies that they say can only be explained by the existence of other universes.
The PetCube, developed by a Ukranian dog-owner, has a webcam and a low power laser in it it, and users can remotely control the laser and watch their pet's reaction.
Research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that a meteor strike 12,800 years ago caused rapid climate change which caused the extinction of the mammoth.
New York-based technology company IBM is putting its supercomputer Watson to work - in a robot call centre. Companies will be able to sign up to the scheme and their customers will be able to complain and get advice from artificially intelligent computer system Watson.
Researchers from Indiana University are trying to discover how copper coins from Africa, dating back to the 900s, ended up in Australia six centuries before the antipodean country was first 'discovered'.
Archaeologists working at a cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt found that there were 20 per cent more births in March and April than in other months.
A Russian space capsule carrying mice, lizards and gerbils has landed safely back on Earth after spending a month in space. The animals were part of tests by Russian scientists looking at the effects of weightlessness on the animals' bodies.
A Texas firm has unveiled a vast warehouse growing 2.2 million tobacco plants under pink lighting - and researchers at Purdue University say it could be the future of urban farming.
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Idaho-based company Inteliscope has created the Shooter Tactical Rifle Adapter that can replace the scope of a gun with an iPhone or iPod Touch. The scope has 5X digital zoom, crosshairs, a built-in GPS mapper and compass.
Swedish designers hope to built the experimental building in the centre of Stockholm, and cover it is 'straws' which turn movement by the wind into energy.
The Chillsner, designed by Orlando-based gadget company Corkcicle, looks like an icicle and sits inside drinks bottle in order to keep them colder for longer.
US researchers found that the best singers among a group of sparrows were the worst at food-finding puzzles.
Scientists at Michigan State University, in the U.S., found that differences in practice levels are not enough to explain why people differ in ability at certain activities.
The research found those with impaired vision have the potential to use echolocation to find objects in the same manner as animals such as dolphins or bats.
Researchers using the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab (pictured) - and say it could help them understand the conditions straight after the Big Bang.
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.
German researchers have developed a computer system created in openFrameworks - a creative coding program - that can scan Google Earth satellite images looking for faces. The scanner searches the entire world, switches to the next zoom level and starts again, taking snapshots and co-ordinates of all the 'faces' it finds. Onformative admit that not all the so-called faces are recognisable and these are dismissed.
The detailed photos, which include images of RNA molecules that help form part of a fruit fly ovary and also drops of liquids trapped between two solids, were among the entrants to this year's Art of Science competition at Princeton University.
Major Peake, Britain's first astronaut for 20 years, took stomach-churning 'zero gravity' flights and learned Russian to communicate on the International Space Station.
Archivists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California have unearthed 20 vials of moon dust dating back to 24 July 1970, collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission.
Claims made in Jane's All The World's Aircraft journal state that German aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead may have been the first man to successfully fly a plane, beating the Wright Brothers' infamous flight by two years.
Scientists at Aberdeen University said that penguins started to fly through the ocean instead of the air as they developed wing-propelled diving skills that allowed them to forage for food at increasing depths.
Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One at an official launch event in Washington. The new Xbox One has been designed to run much faster than its Xbox 360 predecessor. It has improved voice recognition, Skype functions built-in and comes with a completely redesigned version of its motion-sensing technology Kinect.
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