The headgear was meant to give 'top guns' all-around vision and awareness but instead pilots were disorientated by radar pictures and multiple images.
Fire investigators who tested the mummy (top and bottom left) believe a chemical reaction caused by embalming oils used on his corpse sparked the blaze. Flesh from the boy pharaoh (pictured centre, his death mask and, inset, a reconstruction of his face) was tested by researchers who confirmed his body was burnt while sealed in his sarcophagus. They also believe the corpse's death were caused by a chariot crash from an analysis of his injuries (right).
The RAC of Western Australia and Australia-based Emotiv created the technology to raise awareness of how dangerous distractions can be behind the wheel.
The last known tiger died in 1936, but a team of enthusiasts believe there is still a chance that several of the animals might be roaming the forests of Tasmania.
Researchers at the University of Michigan claim the fact it happened twice significantly increases confidence that animal dwarfism is linked to climate change.
Rumours from Mac Fan, in Japan, suggest that Apple's next high-end handset could have a screen one inch larger than the current iPhone 5S.
Apple announced its fifth-generation iPad tablet in California last week. It is 20% thinner than the iPad 4 and Apple claims it is twice as fast.
Research by Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has revealed that the reason for the 'Mpemba effect' lies in the unique properties of the molecular bonds that hold water together.
Look For Longer 2 features 100 underground stations - 25 more than last year's game - and all the clues have been submitted by members of the general public. Example clues include a road sign showing the number 007, for tube station Bond Street, and a dagger in a ham, for Dagenham East.
Researchers at the University of Trento in Italy claim dogs use their tails to deliver signals to other dogs that are hidden from humans.
Kinect Sign Language Translator prototype has been created the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, Microsoft Research Asia and the Beijing Union University.
Researchers in Beijing have uncovered two SARS coronaviruses in horseshoe bats which, they claim, are 95 cent the same as the one that infected humans.
Researchers at Yale University discovered left-handers accounted for 40 per cent of those with the mental illness, despite making up 10 per cent of the population.
A study by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) in Chicago, found women mostly picked pink iPhone 5C handsets, while men chose blue or white.
A physicist from the University of Warwick said a forkful of curry should conform to the golden ratio and include equal quantities of meat or vegetable, rice and sauce.
Researchers from Massachusetts have found fossils of what's believed to be the beak of an octopus- or squid-type creature (pictured right) as well as a set of bones an unusual arrangement (pictured left) that both support a 2011 theory that the mythical Kraken (illustration pictured inset) could exist.
Using a global list of known asteroids, pensioner Jay Tate observes their paths from his home observatory, which he shares with his wife in Powys, Wales.
The 90-day test took place at the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) which is located 1,400 metres beneath the ground at a former gold mine in South Dakota.
The Neurocam headset uses a brainwave quantifying algorithm developed by Keio University, Japan, to judge what interests the wearer on a scale of one to 100.
Massachusetts-based researchers Akamai found the average UK user gets web speeds of just 8.4Mbps, a third of what's classed as superfast at 24Mbps.
According to London-based PeerIndex, the members of boyband One Direction are the top five most influential tweeters in the UK, with member Liam Payne (pictured right) leading the pack. Payne, Louis Tomlinson (left), Niall Horan (centre), Harry Styles (second from right) all scored 98 out of 100 for their Twitter influence. Zayn Malik (second from left) scored 97. The scores are based on how much other users interact with their account, not how many followers they have. The X Factor stars beat musician Ed Sheeran and Prime Minister David Cameron (inset).
Alex Jones from Cologne Germany has made a number of different versions of Optimus Prime (right), Blaster, Starscream, Warpath (left) and Shockwave (centre). Mr Jones is a self-confessed perfectionist and each version has improved design and functionality. He claims he’s always on a quest for the right technique in order to get every transformation, every little feature and detail of every character right.’ When working on Hound he claims he had to wait years until the colours were available in order to finish the build to his high standards. Even now he says that he can hear the figures calling ‘improve me, improve me again, NOW!!’
Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology said the sculpture of the bird clasping a serpent, found close to the Tower of London, was almost unrecognisable when it was found.
Swedish man Roger Nilsson contacted Nokia to tell them about how he found his Lumia 800 wedged between two rocks in the lake.
Cecilia Abadie, a Google Glass explorer, was pulled over on Tuesday and given a ticket for 'driving with a monitor visible to driver', which she uploaded on Google Plus.
U.S. computer maker, Dell, said the problem is related to the manufacturing process of the high-end Latitude 6430u Ultrabook but has now been resolved.
The announcement was made at a launch event in California. Google's Nexus 5 (pictured) will be available from 1 November in black or white. It has a 4.95-inch screen and will be the first Google product to run the Android 4.4 KitKat operating system announced earlier this year. It goes on sale from 1 November for £299 ($349) for 16GB and £339 ($399) for 32GB.
Harvard University researchers said the more honest someone is, the more likely they are to lie when they are tired and their willpower weakens.
Dr Yaniv Erlich and his team at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, compiled the data using 43 million public profiles on Geni.com.
The University of Manchester used artificially intelligent software with the processing power of 30,000 desktop computers to simulate the dinosaur's walk.
An upcoming exhibition at the Barbican, in London, will celebrate the retro video games and computers that were popular during the 1970s to 1990s.
Researchers from the University of Montreal said they were 'stunned' to discover blind people can tell when a light has been turned on and off.
Researchers from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, hope the blood could help end supply shortages and prevent infections through donations.
The images, taken as part of a competition organised by an Oregan-based imaging company, FEI, aim to shift our perspective of common objects. Imaged here (from top right clockwise) is this year's winning entry of a Acacia Dealbata flower, dendritic cells (immune cells) stimulated with silicon microparticles, a view of a cigarette filter, revealing cellulose acetate fibers and mouth parts of the aquatic third-stage larva of an Asian tiger mosquito are seen at 800 x magnification. Winners of FEI’s ‘Explore the Unseen’ image contest in partnership with National Geographic’s ‘Mysteries of the Unseen World,’ debuts November 8 2013.
Prehistoric paintings are sited in ‘living’ parts of caves, where sound reverberates strongly, a study of rock art in northern Spain found.
Research from U.S-based news site NPR found that bikes outsold cars in 2012 in Italy for the first time since World War II and the trend is being seen across Europe.
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found that men gave extra attention to women with larger breasts, narrower waists and bigger hips.
The ATM machine, operated by Vancouver-based Bitcoiniacs and Nevada-based Robocoin, changes bitcoins to Canadian dollars and vice versa.
Research by the University of Toyama in Japan and the University of Brasilia in Brazil found images of snakes affect a cluster of neurons in an ancient part of the brain.
EXCLUSIVE: London psychiatrist Dr Richard Graham told MailOnline how technology addiction can affect a child's behaviour and the importance of having time away from the computer.
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German engineers created the modern-day version of the 1865 bicycle using 24 different types of moulded plastic, carbon fibre and fitted it with an electric motor. The idea behind the concept was to imagine what bike inventors at the time would have come up with if they had access to modern materials.
Dr Armand D'Angour, a tutor in classics at Oxford University, describes the composition as 'magical' and claims the recordings are 100 per cent accurate.
Wired.com teamed up with FoodNetwork.com to sift through 906,539 ratings on the cooking channel's website - and found only pasta and desserts taste worse when bacon is added.
Chaps, if you fear your wife doesn’t entirely trust you, get on her good side by whipping up an omelette. And to really make an impression, serve chocolate mousse for dessert.
The crowd sourced online encyclopedia has seen volunteer editorial staff dwindle by a third since it made a raft of changes in 2007.
The hi-tech device uses a wet wipe on a pad on the bottom to clean away stains on hard floors, removing dried on kitchen spills such as tea bag drips.
Researchers at the University of California found that being seen with a group of friends makes people look more attractive to others.
Each time Greek celebrity Maria Bakodimus unhooks the clasp, a tweet is sent to remind women to check their breasts as part of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
Shipments are expected to fall below 4 million units and could drop as low as 3 million, which is just a third of the amount shipped for the original model.
EXCLUSIVE: The 'Here's Johnny' scene from 1980 film The Shining was identified as the most horrific movie moment of all time because it made heart rates jump by 28.21%. Research from Japanese-owned site Rakuten Play.com found that the 1973 religious thriller The Exorcist was the second second scariest film, while Wes Craven's original Nightmare on Elm Street from 1984 came in third. The peak average increases were at 101.8bpm for A Nightmare on Elm Street, 101.6bpm for The Shining and 96.8bpm for The Exorcist.
Research carried out by Melbourne University found that role-playing video games have become so advanced they are leading people to be 'detached from their bodies.'
By monitoring people's cheek muscles, scientists at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School found that people tend to smile more when someone they envy encounters difficulties - an emotion known as 'Schadenfreude'.
In comparison tests carried out by Finnish firm OptoFidelity, Samsung's Galaxy S3 only lost accuracy at the very edge of the display.
The case has an elastic coating capable of recovering from scratches. The phone has a 6-inch screen and its curved screen fits with the contour of the user's face.
The opening of the major engineering project marks the completion of a plan initially proposed by an Ottoman sultan about 150 years ago.
Researchers believe that additional layers of cartilage connecting dinosaurs' bones enabled their skeletons to hold more weight and not buckle under their own size.
For many of us, playing the air guitar is the closest you'll get to strumming your favourite tunes.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the successful test has paved the way for a launch of the space cannon as early as next year.
Scientists tested 32 four and five-year-olds who were shown 12 photos of women aged between 18 and 29. Boys and girls tended to believe answers assigned to pictures of pretty women.
By drawing power from a smartphone’s battery, the South Korean company's design could have a longer life and be lighter than Google Glass.
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.
Research carried out for pressure group Common Sense Media revealed that 29 per cent of children start using the gadgets as toddlers.
Testing almost 400 different types of microbes, scientists were able to work out which had come from a white, Chinese, Latino or non-Hispanic black person.
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