The house was designed by Singapore-based architect Myitr Malcew for H2ORIZON, a French developer that specialists in floating structures. Built on a buoyant platform, it boasts two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchen.
Australian researchers claim to have found 500,000 cubic kilometres (120,000 cubic miles) of water buried beneath the seabed on continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa. The discovery comes as United Nations estimates suggest water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of the population of the world over the last century. ...read
A new breed of photo editing app, including Pixtr (pictured), is gaining popularity as people seek to digitally doctor their selfies so that they can look better online.
EXCLUSIVE: Scientists from the University of Exeter found plants aid concentration, increase productivity and boost staff wellbeing by 47 per cent at work.
The planet, named HD 106906 b, (mock-up pictured) is 11 times Jupiter’s mass and orbits its star at an incredible 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance.
Scientists claim they are 90 per cent sure that ISON was destroyed in November. However, there is a small chance it left pieces large enough to study.
The SG-41Z device, which is one of only ten remaining in the world, is being sold at Burstow and Hewett auctioneers in Battle, East Sussex, next Wednesday.
The University of Essex has revealed that beautiful facial features, even in middle age, can help boost success. The study even took IQ and education into account.
Former Nasa scientist Mark Rober spent nine years working on the Curiosity Rover which landed on Mars last year.
The finding may explain why the sun rotates about 30 per cent faster near its equator and could help better predict solar storms.
In a video for the concept, by Japanese firm Honda, as the phone is dropped, an airbag inside the case deploys to prevent the handset from being scratched or dented.
Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, recorded the voices of 24 young southern Californians and found that the 12 men they studied 'uptalked'.
The discovery was made by analysing the bones of a Paranthropus boisei hominid which were found at the Olduvai Gorge World Heritage fossil site in Tanzania. Researchers believe the creature stood 3.5 to 4.5 feet tall, was very strong and had a robust frame. The size of the arm bones shown in the main image suggests strong forearms and a powerful upper body. The inset image shows the skull of the creature first evolved in East Africa about 2.3 million years ago.
Ministers from Germany's 16 states are meeting this week to discuss the plans to create the app dubbed 'Nazi Shazam'.
Researchers, led by the University of Utah, discovered the fossils of Europelta carbonensis species near the town of Ariño in north eastern Spain.
Videos of the light appeared on YouTube with many claiming it to be an 'alien'. Biologists suggest it may be a marine salp which has drifted off course.
Hong Kong startup Perpetu lets users select which information they want to share with who, after they die, and releases it upon their death via a unique code.
An expert from the China National Space Administration's Lunar Exploration Programme Centre, reportedly said missiles could be fired at the Earth from the moon.
The tool is hidden away among other settings of Gmail's 'Labs' section and gives users a 30 second window of opportunity to unsend emails.
California-based Intuitive Surgical, which manufactures the da Vinci robotic surgery system, said friction in the arms of some devices might make them stall.
Blake Baer, 17 and Jack Bittner, 18, from Pennsylvania U.S. have recreated Erebor, home of the dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT in painstaking detail.
Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), Germany, developed the smart shoe to combat risks of ankle damage when running. They developed a hi-tech running shoe with ‘Runsafer’ sensors in the sole, which measure the biomechanical data of the athlete and evaluate the runner's form with the help of measurements in real time.
Computer scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics, in Germany, transmitted passwords between two machines using sound.
In six months Google has bought seven firms including Meka, which makes humanoid robots, and Industrial Perception, which specialises in packaging machines.
The thigh bone was recovered from an underground cave in northern Spain known as the 'Pit of Bones' in the Atapuerca Mountains.
The huge demand is surprising, given the cost of living squeeze and fact that the devices are not cheap – Microsoft’s Xbox one comes in at £429.99 and Sony’s PS4 is £349.
EXCLUSIVE: California-based software firm FrontRange asked people to go without their phones for a week and then tracked their mental and physiological state.
MIT researchers in Boston found that certain combinations of sounds appear to make people lose control of their mouths.
The scheme, which launched in August, has also been extended to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Macau, taking the total number of countries up to 11.
The Dutch-built vehicle is a three-wheeled motorcyle that transforms into a gyrocopter and switches between drive and flight modes in just 10 minutes.
Scandinavian hardware chain Clas Ohlson has come up with a modern take on the classic Swiss Army Knife but DIY fans will have to make it themselves. The 'Uniquely Useful Tool' claims to be the first crowd-sourced multi tool as the public has chosen the components to be included. The company claims it reflects a more improvisational approach to DIY in the 21st Century.
The footage captured by Cassini (inset) reveals the storm around Saturn's north pole, as well as small vortices rotating in the opposite direction of the hexagon. Some of the vortices are swept along with the jet stream as if on a racetrack. The largest of these vortices spans about 2,200 miles (3,500 km), or about twice the size of the largest hurricane recorded on Earth. ‘A hurricane on Earth typically lasts a week, but this has been here for decades -- and who knows -- maybe centuries,’ said Andrew Ingersoll, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
EXCLUSIVE: From today Sky is making its online rental service open to everyone. Registration is free and films range from 99p for older titles to £3.49 for new releases.
The new Type-C connector is smaller than current USB plugs (pictured) and is being designed to be used in thinner and sleeker products like tablets and ultrabooks.
A scientist from the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea estimated humanity’s median trophic level was approximately 2.21 in 2009.
Nasa scientists said the exoplanets are all scorching ‘hot Jupiters’ - a term given to massive worlds that orbit close to their stars.
Google Now uses 'predictive analytics' to guess what its users want. It combines location data with calendar entries, emails and more to predict what they'll do next.
The system, created by e2v Technologies in Chelmsford, fires electronic pulses towards targeted cars. The pulses immobilise the engine and disable built-in electronics.
The European Academies' Science Advisory Council believes Europe needs to plan for future probabilities of extreme weather, such as heat waves, floods and storms.
For the first time, researchers from Nottingham University have simulated how matter behaves when photographed at temperatures close to absolute zero.
Washington University found that a sound known as the sub-glottal resonance, which deepens with height, helps build a mental picture of someone.
Montana sexologist Dr. Lindsey Doe claimed ejaculate is designed to fight off sperm from other males as well as fertilise eggs.
The £1.99 Christmas Tinner from UK retailer Game is made up of nine layers of traditional festive food including a scrambled egg starter, a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, finished off with a layer of Christmas pudding. It even comes with mince pies. The 400g tin takes 12 minutes to cook and the chemical reaction used to heat the food inside the can means users don't even need to use a cooker or microwave.
Archaeologists from the University of Colorado Denver found the cave as a result of excavations at Riparo Bombrini, a collapsed rock shelter in north-west Italy.
By limiting what people see by only showing results based on previous searches, users are hidden from opposing views. This creates segregation and isolation.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University used something known as the Emotional Stroop Task to demonstrate how repetitive bad news can lose its power.
Zoologists from the University of Tennessee monitored the behaviour of crocodiles and alligators, which were found to balance twigs on their snouts to attract birds.
Texas-based inventor has made the claim after spending the past decade trying to recreate Johannes Vermeer's paining 'The Music Room'.
Designed by two students at the University of Waterloo in Canada, the Athos full-body suit is able to measure data for up to 14 muscles.
Scientists from the University of Sussex have discovered that koalas possess an extra pair of vocal folds that are located outside the voice box.
A study led by the University of Bristol has found that dinosaur beaks evolved for eating prior to their role in aiding flight.
The app links wirelessly to the Smart Power Strip, created in California, and can also be used to monitor energy use or programme lights to switch on and off.
The watch, created by the Arizona-based FiLIP, doubles up as phone. Parents set 'safe zones' and get alerted if a child leaves these designated areas via the FiLIP app.
EXCLUSIVE: The orangutans made the most of device, pulling faces into the lens and taking it into the trees of Indonesia’s Bukit Tigapuluh National Park. ‘As all the orangutans in our programme are orphans and hand raised by humans they were very relaxed having a GoPro team around,’ said Dr Peter Pratje of Frankfurt Zoological Society and project manager in Indonesia. The project trains orphaned orangutans with the skills they need to survive in the wild. Experts estimate orangutans could be extinct in the wild in less than 25 years.
Australian scientists have confirmed that the creature uses its flowery disguise as both protection and a weapon to attract prey.
Gloucester-based design group BEAF created the wrapping paper in an effort to reduce the problem of waste it creates over the holiday season.
A London-based computer scientist developed Snap ColourPop to change how people shop for clothes by letting them search by photos instead of words.
A UK panel conducted a blind taste test on champagnes and sparkling wines that ranged in price from £18 to £400 – and a £40 bottle was deemed the best.
Finnish-based Nokia's MixRadio streaming service offers 26 million songs that users can rate. The Windows Phone app then creates personalised mixes.
James Howells, an IT worker from South Wales, generated the coins in 2009 when they were worthless, then threw them away last year while cleaning his home.
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Amateur astronomer Jose Manteca from Begues, near Barcelona, took the photos from small observatory on the terrace of his house. The 54-year-old says he spends hours on the terrace gazing into space, hoping to spot scintillating solar activity. He has developed a technique to take 15 images per second using a humble DSLR camera and a solar telescope. The images include stunning close-ups of solar prominences, sunspots and even a plane crossing the face of the sun.
Physicists from the University of Milan discovered archerfish use theories including the effect of refraction and the Plateau–Rayleigh instability to catch prey.
The Russian Neverquest Trojan uses a variety of advanced methods to infect computers and pose as official-looking sites to steal usernames and passwords.
The skulls were found at the Shimao Ruins, the site of a neolithic stone city in the northern province of Shaanxi, China.
The list of 1,400 banned words was found in the source code for Android's latest KitKat operating system by U.S. technology site Wired.com.
Dutch artist Lieske Schreude has been feeding snails with coloured paper (top left) and shaping their vibrant poo into floor tiles (top right). The artist thought of the concept when she noticed a plague of snails in her garden who enjoyed eating paper and cardboard. The designer noticed that snails not only eat coloured paper, but also recycle it in that same colour because their bodies reject the colour pigments. Ms Schreuder said the faeces can also be pressed into a mould using a spatula to create delicate thread five-millimetres thick (bottom left).
Geologists from George Mason University, Washington and the Centre for Speleoarchaeological Research in Rome are exploring the Roman underground network.
A team of researchers in Chicago have developed a method of reassigning nerves and muscles meaning amputees can control prosthetics using brain signals.
Experts at Saarland University and the University of Mannheim found that a brief period of personal prayer buffered the 'self-control depletion effect'.
A year-long experiment by Virginia University examined the sales of iPods on Craigslist. Their findings revealed racial bias as black sellers did worse than their white counterparts.
CaffeinAll was invented by a New Jersey-based scientist, and can be sprinkled on top of any food to transform it into an energy fix.
A group of skiing enthusiasts from Colorado invented UpSki which comprises of a large round sail and a specially-designed 10lb (4.5kg) harness.
Computer simulations of cloud data from the western Pacific, south eastern China and Oklahoma showed pollution increased their size, thickness and duration.
The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, who is one of the world's leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.
The University of California believes the spears were made by the direct ancestor of Homo sapiens, Homo heidelbergensis, rather than by ancient humans.
The extraordinary results of a Danish study suggest that the state of our bodies has a significant influence on our position on specific political issues.
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.
Any Xbox One owners affected by the console's disc driver error will get a free download code from the Washington-based firm.
The patent, filed in California, describes a system that analyses a user's posts and then generates replies for future online interactions which mimic how they talk.
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