Dus Architects is using the room builder to construct the worlds first 3D printed house, which is located by a canal in north Amsterdam.
The footprints were uncovered in Arizona in 1968. They are on display at the Raymond M Alf Museum in California and palaeontologists believe the tracks date back 260 million years. They were made by a tarantula-sized creature said to have been approximately 2.5-inches long. ...read
Dus Architects is using a giant 3D printer called the room builder to construct the ‘world’s first’ 3D printed house, which is located by a canal in north Amsterdam.
The images were thought to have been leaked by an insider at Apple supplier Foxconn and appeared on Chinese social network Weibo.
Up until now, the record for the longest X-37B mission is 469 days, set by the program's second mission launched in 2011.
Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have identified four genes that are associated with OCD in dogs, effects of which can include tail chasing (illustrated).
Scientists said its plasma cloud will only deliver a ‘glancing blow’ to Earth and will not seriously affect communication systems.
Babies have a pesky habit of picking things up and putting them in their mouths, but researchers say this is a useful ability learned from birth.
Californian-based Google's AutoAwesome April Fool's involved David Hasselhoff photobombing people's photos, (pictured top left) while Microsoft announced a smart item of stationery, complete with a quote from Clippy itself (pictured top right). Tesco unveiled the Cudl - 'the world’s first tablet made for two', (pictured bottom right) and Ocado announced a 42-inch tablet (pictured bottom left) with an hour's battery life and neck straps.
Researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, proved for the first time that engineered muscle (pictured) can contract as strongly as 'natural' muscle.
One hundred students completed a short typing test and the average person was able to hit six keys a second but couldn't label the keyboard.
Latest rumours claim a 4.7inch and 5.7inch iPhone will be released in September.
Researchers in Isreal and Amsterdam have discovered that the hormone oxytocin can actually make people lie - if it serves the interests of their group. They also found it can make people lie far more quickly.
Methanosarcina began belching out the greenhouse gas around 250 million years ago, radically changing Earth's climate and ocean pH.
Czech researchers found people can accurately judge intelligence just by looking at faces of men.
Marine biologists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography tagged eight whales in southern California and followed them for months as they dived for food. They were surprised by the creature's extreme behaviour, with one of the mammals diving 9,816ft (2,992metres) below the waves and staying below for 138 minutes. It is the first time that the diving behaviour of the species has been carefully examined and scientists are particularly interested in them because of the suspected effects of sonar.
Researchers at Rice University say that 34% of people book from work - but shouldn't.
Professor Takao Hensch rewired the brain of a visually impaired women to process images using Alzheimer's drug donepezil.
A study by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) found that touching an object boosts a person's perception of ownership.
Researchers at King's College London and Imperial College London found people with more copies of the gene made more of the enzyme and were more likely to be slim.
A historian has argued that William the Conqueror could not have reduced Yorkshire to a wasteland and that the Domesday Book has been misinterpreted.
The invention was developed by Taiwanese designer, Meng Ling Yang. It plays sounds that react to a baby's touch and is fitted with LED lights that flash red, blue or green.
The Ohio State University researchers analysed photos to reveal how different muscle movements created complex facial expressions. They believe we routinely pull 21 distinct faces - more than three times the long-accepted figure of six.
The London designers Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa claim their vertical station could free up valuable space in major cities. Train carriages pivot like a Ferris wheel when they approach, and magnets on the side of the building allow them to rise up. 'The Hyper Speed Vertical Train Hub aims to resolve the inevitable challenges that cities will face by 2075, and offers a deliverable and sustainable solution for the future of the transport generation,' they say.
Office temperatures are set for wearing suits, but as more people dress in casual, warmer clothes, firms are needlessly heating up their offices, claims Lancaster University.
The beverage contains extracts of a fruit called bergamot which scientists at the University of Calabria in Italy believe is a superfood for the heart.
Spanish scientists have a made a major step forward in the development of quantum computers that can run at speeds far faster than current systems.
Researchers from Beijing created the single-friction-surface triboelectric generator (STEG) by using materials that create an electric charge when rubbed together.
Women tested by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin had more grey matter in their brains after being told to play Super Mario 64 for two months.
Experts at the University of California at Berkeley reconstructed the faces from fMRI scans - and were able to tell who subjects were looking at.
Researchers in Singapore say their test can instantly change the colour of a drink if GHB has been added to it.
India produces a third of the world's tea and Assam accounts for over half. Ambient temperatures have risen from 35°C to upwards of 50°C, causing tea leaves to be destroyed.
The tank is covered in hexagonal tiles that can allow it to change its shape - or disappear completely - from infrared cameras. Built by Polish firm Obrum and BAE, it weighs 35 tonnes, and has a crew of three. It uses panels to change its heat signature, allowing it to disappear from view (bottom right) when viewed through heat sensitive instruments.
The parody map was created by Dutch developers. Each napping spot is labelled with the type of nap - field, bed or bench - and naps are plotted globally.
The firm revealed plans to creates drones that can fly for months at a times and beam internet data to Earth, giving coverage to underdeveloped areas of the world.
As part of the changes on the Californian-based site, Retweet has been replaced with 'Share with followers' and 'Quote Tweet' is now 'First add comment'.
The app monitors social media logins to find a person's location - and can then show you the best way to escape them.
VocaliD - based in Delaware and Boston - extract whatever sounds a speech-impaired person can produce and then blend them with a donated voice.
The brand new Airbus Defence and Space Mars Yard rover test area has been unveiled at the company's complex in Hertfordshire.
Spanish doctors found a patient complaining of pain in both wrists - and found it was due to a six hour messaging sessions.
An online petition prompted Apple to issue a statement saying it was working with the body that control Emoji to expand their diversity.
The designs were the idea of the Florida-based art company Oliver Gal Artist Co, whose works feature the intricate designs of the objects and their history. They include inventions as simple as the Lego brick and other more complex designs, such as the handgun (pictured right) first iPod (top left), Game Boy (bottom left) and a Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Two amateur photographers captured the craft over Amarillio - but experts say it is shaped like no known plane.
Researchers studied the Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Smith, Pope and Kohler glaciers in West Antarctica, which are accelerating at a rate much faster than previously thought.
The findings were challenged by history experts from Winchester. They claim the remains could belong to any victim of a War of the Roses battles.
Launched in 1982, MS-DOS, the 'Disk Operating System' was Microsoft's first commercial operating system, and the firm has now released the code behind it - and the jokes programmers left in it.
Amazon is announcing an 'update on its video business' in New York on 2nd April - rumoured to be a Kindle TV box.
EXCLUSIVE: Research from work.shop.play surveyed 6,000 Londoners. The most tech-savvy people lived in Lewisham, while Lambeth is obsessed with Facebook.
Launching the report in Yokohama, Japan, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the world has already seen impacts of global warming on every continent and across the oceans. And experts warned that in many cases, people are ill prepared to cope with the risks of a changing climate. The report said that violent conflicts, food shortages and serious infrastructure damage were predicted to become more widespread over coming decades. It argued that rising temperatures will exacerbate poverty and damage land and marine species.
Experts at engineering and design consultancy Arup say the spray-on dust and glowing trees would reduce the need for street lighting.
California firm Rungo invented the $2500 trike after struggling to tow a surfboard across the beach.
Swedish developer Markus Persson said he was cancelling the project because Facebook's motives are too unclear, and he doesn't trust the site.
The Cybathlon, which will be held in Zurich in October 2016, is designed to boost interest in performance-enhancing technology used by humans.
Historian Graham Robb believes Camelot was built at the end of Brookfield Road, Standish. The area is said to have been the meeting place of two Celtic pathways.
Developed in Illiinois, the devices are made of magnesium foil and cathodes of iron or molybdenum. Small doses dissolve without causing health problems.
Scientists at the Univeristy of Aukland came to the conclusion after subjecting six wild crows to a battery of tests.
The robot, which was developed in Austin, Texas, throws balls up to 30ft for small dogs to retrieve and post into its 'funnel' so they can play again.
The VMBeacon system has been developed by the British technology and design company Iconeme and is the latest evidence of how technology and smartphones are changing the way we shop.
Satya Nadella (pictured) launched the new software in San Francisco - and revealed it was on sale immediately.
Scientists from New York University Langone Medical Centre made 50,000 changes to DNA code to make the chromosome tougher and give it new properties.
The feature is called Multipeer Connectivity Framework (MCF) and it creates what's called a wireless mesh network, or peer network.
Developed in Illiinois, the devices are made of magnesium foil and cathodes of iron or molybdenum. Small doses dissolve without causing health problems.
Science writer Sam Kean believes a yawn can reveal true love - and says the timing is key.
Satya Nadella (pictured) launched the new software in San Francisco - and revealed it was on sale immediately.
Once the vote closes on 15 April, Nasa will put the winning design into production before running it through tests at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston.
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Footage put together by an international team led by University of Cambridge shows entangled magnetic field lines looping from the sun's surface.
Dr Raychelle Burks of Doane College in Nebraska says that the zombie-repellent can be made using just three pungent chemical compounds.
A psychological scientist from the University of California found that humans are only able to detect liars 43 per cent of the time using pure reasoning.
The controversial study carried out by Toronto University said children need to read more factual books about the natural world.
The message was sent from the Californian firm to iTunes users who recently made an in-app purchase. In-app purchases are paid-for extras in certain apps.
One expert heard a dolphin 'say' sargassum when she was swimming in the Caribbean last August and used a prototype translator to decode its whistle.
Mark Zuckerberg pledged to 'change the way we work, play and communicate' with the massive deal.
In a series of lab tests, University of Warwich researchers found happiness made people around 12% more productive.
The tool was created by student Shan Huang from Pennsylvania. Her Chrome extension scans a person's web history before plotting them all in date order.
Daan Roosegaarde, a designer from the Netherlands, is working with scientists at the State University of New York and a company called Bioglow to create 'trees' of GM glowing plants. He is working with Alexander Krichevsky, who has already created genetically modified glow-in-the-dark plants, which will be sold by Bioglow. Dr Krichevsky makes the glowing plants by splicing genes from bioluminescent bacteria with the chloroplast genome from a common pot plant to create ‘Starlight Avatar’, which emits a light similar in type to that made by fireflies.
The search giant is set to work with Italian fashion giant Luxottica in a bid to make Glass, Google's wearable computer, more fashionable.
Researchers from London recorded brain responses of people as they listened to genuine laughter, and compared the results to how they reacted when the laughing was fake.
The Megafauna conference took place in Oxford last week. Experts discussed the demise of large beasts, and the impact climate and humans had on these animals.
A three-year study by the University of Florida found that yellow-bellied sea snakes dehydrate themselves until quenching their thirst with fresh water rainfall.
The study, led by the University of Bristol, describes how the strange species named Tamisiocaris used huge, specialised appendages to filter sea water.
The waste was found in specially-adapted barrels, along with a rustic well on an archaeological dig in Odense on the island of Funen, Denmark.
Researchers from Pennsylvania found that all the male and female monkeys who cared for the young were the infants' biological parents, suggesting the species never cheated.
Polish researchers found people were more likely to tell the truth with their hand on their heart - and thought others making the gesture were more trustworthy.
They are not your ordinary sandcastles - each being able to fit on a single grand of sand. Created by New York artist Vik Muniz artist/researcher Marcelo Coelh, the work goes on display for the first time in Tel Aviv this week. The pair spent four years developing the technology to create the pictures.
Scientists examining skeletons of plague victims unearthed in Clerkenwell, London, believe that the disease was airborne and spread by coughs and sneezes.
British archaeologist John Romer, 72, believes he has discovered the site where three ancient Egyptian priest kings - Herihor, Piankh and Menkheperre - were buried in Luxor, Egypt, almost 3,000 years ago.
An amateur palaeontologist discovered the 'new' fossil in Monmouth County, New Jersey in 2012, which matches the other half of a fossilised turtle limb discovered 162 years before.
Portugese researchers say say that letting meat marindade in pilsner can help reduce the formation of potentially harmful cancer-causing substances in grilled meats
Ooho was created by London-based designers. It has a double gelatinous membrane created using sodium alginate and calcium chloride.
The billboards will be set up in San Francisco throughout April. People can also submit photos of drivers texting to the Texting While In Traffic (TWIT) website.
Experts in London have proved it is possible to use drones (stock image pictured) to tap into a smartphone's Wi-Fi settings 150 times in one hour.
Los Angeles film company Firefight films travelled to the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska to make the film.
The craft was 3D printed using a common technique called fused deposition modelling (FDM) at the University of Sheffield.
Not only will the dark toms turn heads at the allotment society, they are also healthier than normal red varieties, according to plant scientists.
The application from the Californian-based firm was filed in 2012, and published Thursday. Various built-in sensors would monitor usage and adjust power accordingly.
The University of Wisconsin's A-Chess app A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics also includes a panic button to connect to counsellors.
Mark Zuckerberg enlisted architect Frank Gehry to expand Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, and the final designs were revealed today.
Scientists from the Academy of Athens, Greece, found the use of red and green along the horizon of sunsets in paintings contains important information about aerosols.
CEO Reed Hastings warned service providers 'must provide sufficient access to their network without charge.'
Britons can order and pay for a take away or meal for the first time at over 350 restaurants, using only their smartphone.
In the past 18 months, 48 dogs of different breeds and from all over the country have fallen foul of the deadly illness, leaving owners and vets baffled.
Astronomers say the storms on Jupiter are among the most powerful in the solar system.
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.
The Sun Cube is the brainchild of Toronto-based artist Daniel Voshart who spent a month creating the design for his father's birthday.
San Francisco startup Vicarious is building software designed to mimic the brain's neocortex. It wants to create a system 'that thinks and learns like a human'.
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