The stunning Vine was captured by Maryland- astronaut Reid Wiseman as he looked down on Earth from his 150 mile (250km) vantage point.
California-based Zero Motorcycles are releasing an electric bike for police (shown). The motorcycle is silent so it can be used to creep up on criminals undetected. The LAPD is evaluating the vehicle for use by its officers on the city streets. The bike boasts a top speed of 98 mph and has a range of more than 150 miles. A military version has also been released that has infrared lights and an 'override' switch to escape from enemy gun fire.
Research by psychologist Ann Marie Ryan, from Michigan State University, suggests recruiters prefer more masculine traits in industries such as engineering.
Researchers in Germany found that people who shared knowledge (stock image shown) were more likely to be successful than those who kept to themselves.
A restaurateur in New York has found people take twice as long to finish meals because they use the phones to chat, take photos and post updates. Stock image pictured
The vulnerability was found in the ad libraries used on popular Android apps (selection pictured) by researchers from California-based Fireye.
Gene Bransfield in Virginia used a siamese cat (stock image shown) to hack into his neighbours' networks. The pet was fitted with a device around its collar to seek out vulnerable Wi-Fi.
The technique, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works using thousands of tiny metal bristles that move in response to a magnet.
Bournemouth-based teacher Andy Brunning has explained the reaction on his Compound Interest blog. The chemistry teacher explained lotions (stock image pictured) contain dihydroxyacetone (DHA), which reacts with amino acids in dead skin cells to produce chemicals called melanoidins. This is known as a Maillard reaction, which is also the name given to the reaction that causes meat to brown when cooked.
Researchers in Beijing present evidence that part of the moon is liquid (illustration shown). They say Earth's gravity is keeping a molten layer around the moon's core.
Archaeologists found the bones in Gorham's Cave on the east of Gibraltar. Researchers at Gibraltar Museum believes it shows Neanderthals were more intelligent than we thought.
The 2014 Jeep Cherokee (pictured) and 2015 Cadillac Escalade were the most vulnerable cars studied by Chris Valasek, and Missouri-based Charlie Miller.
TrueNorth by New York-based IBM is being hailed as the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own.
The dress (pictured left) was created by Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht in partnership with band ArcAttack, which makes music using Tesla coils (pictured bottom right). The dress consists of a spiked helmet and plate-metal dress secured in a head-to-toe suit of chain mail. A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit that produces high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating current electricity, and when Ms Wipprecht (pictured top right) stood between the coils, she conducted this energy.
The comment was made by Dr Jason Box, based at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about a recent study of methane leaking in the Arctic by Stockholm University.
Each wireless OwnPhone (pictured), from San Diego-based designer Itamar Jobani, is ordered using a smartphone app. Wearers take images of their ear, which are turned into 3D models.
The bizarre-looking fish was spotted off the coast of California. The Mola mola (shown) was snapped when it came to the surface to get food.
A yearly meteor shower event could be ruined by brighter and larger moon (shown). The Perseids will be visible from US and UK from Saturday to Wednesday.
A scientist from the University of Toronto, Canada, is filmed putting his hand in a jar of hot ice (pictured) – or molten sodium acetate – so that it crystallises around his fingers.
The Harvard study found that around 75 per cent of astronauts resorted to sleeping pills during spaceflight, raising concerns about the effect the drugs may be having on their performance.
Scientists at Harvard University in Massachusetts create 'origami' robot (shown). The flattened robot can unfold from the ground and then stand on four legs.
David Slater, 49, followed 20 black crested macaques around the Indonesian island of Sulawesi - and was rewarded with a trove of monkey selifes that won the hearts of the internet.
A study carried out by a Hong Kong professor found that people who are forced to smile when they are unhappy could actually end up feeling worse because they are 'masking' their sadness.
The capsule endoscopy (pictured) costs around £500 a time and is now available at hospitals
in the UK.
A California-based company will release an ankle bracelet for babies (shown). Called Sproutling Baby Monitor it alerts parents to their child's well-being.
The Air-Pot, from Midlothian-based Caledonian Tree Company, is a plastic container, made from recycled bottles, and perforated with of holes.
The image reveals (from left to right) Typhoon Halong, Hurricane Genevieve, Hurricane Iselle, and Hurricane Julion simultaneously moving across the Pacific Ocean. Taken at 00:00 UTC (1:00 BST), it shows the storms far from land – but they have since travelled and are about to unleash their force on Hawaii and Japan. 'I can't remember the last time when there were four storms of such intensity travelling the Pacific Ocean at the same time,' Julian Heming, a tropical prediction scientist at the Met Office told MailOnline.
The device, an underwater turbine mounted on a free-standing base to capture the power of the tides, will be installed in Ramsey Sound, Pembrokeshire.
Emu (pictured), founded in California in 2012, works in a similar way to Google Now, but Emu claims it is different because it relies on ‘machine learning' to scan conversations for context.
The findings were taken from London-based research firm Deloitte's latest survey. It found almost a quarter of smartphone owners use five or more messaging apps.
Created by Strathclyde University in Scotland, the wristband's sensitivity to UV light means it can alert the wearer to the danger before it is visible on the skin.
A Microsoft researcher from Beijing is developing screens that feature a clicking sensations when pressing on-screen buttons, for example. Prototype pictured.
Austrian campaigner Max Schrems launched the campaign (pictured) last week and is claiming damages of €500 (£397) per supporter.
The Dead Prize has been created by the London-based cofounder of Architecture for Humanity to recognise mistakes and inspire better future inventions.
Scientists at the University of Utah create system to find lost dogs (shown). Their website called Finding Rover matches dogs with an online database.
The infographic was created by Washington-based World Resources Institute based on data from the IPCC report earlier this year. Alongside each pathway, it shows what the future might hold in terms of climate impacts - ranging from temperature increases to precipitation changes to ecosystem damage. Each pathway also notes the year the world will likely exhaust the remaining carbon budget. This is the amount of carbon the planet can emit before locking itself into warming of greater than 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
EXCLUSIVE: A cleaning expert from London-based Hassle.com has revealed which food items can be used as substitutes to expensive cleaning products, and also the science behind why they are so effective. This ranges from potatoes to clear rust (top right), banana skins (top left) to plump up leather, mayonnaise (bottom near right) for removing marks on wood and tomato ketchup (bottom far right) for cleaning brass.
From smartphones and tablet computers, to 3D printers and smart glasses, hi-tech advances over the past decade have left older generations unable to keep up with the youngsters in their family.
Researchers at the University of California have created robots with 'X-ray vision'. The two robots detect changes in signal strength to see through walls (illustration shown).
Pope Francis (pictured) made the claims to German altar servers in Rome. He urged the young people not to waste 'hours on futile things', including chatting on the web and watching TV.
Illinois based researchers have found music makes us feel powerful. They found certain songs could make people work and exercise harder (shown).
Temperatures across the Arctic are warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe - and scientists claim they could lead to some unusual natural events.
Navdy, built in San Francisco, is a dashboard-mounted heads-up display (HUD) that connects to an Android or iOS smartphone via Bluetooth.
In a joint statement, the tech giants said they will continue to pursue existing cases in America. Countries where both firms have launched past legal action include South Korea, Japan, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and the UK.
A piece of music is composed, based on the density, speed and shape of the clouds and is then played on the hi-tech instrument, created by U.S. artist David Bowen.
Researchers at the Kavli Institute in Stanford have used data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope to create a 'portrait' two bubbles stretching out above and below our galaxy. The bubbles themselves, they claim, glow in nearly uniform gamma rays and appear like two 30,000-light-year-tall incandescent bulbs screwed into the centre of the galaxy. But according to current astrophysical theories, these gamma rays shouldn't be there, and scientists have been unable to find a source.
Scientists from the Seoul National University in South Korea believe they can convert cigarette ends into a material that could be used by computers, electrical vehicles and wind turbines.
The new service (pictured) is launching in San Francisco. Cars are booked in the standard way, but if there is a match, the app notifies the user of the other rider’s first name.
Reports claim the Californian tech giant has scheduled a ‘big media event’ for Tuesday, 9 September, at which it is expected to unveil its next-generation iPhones. Last year's invite is pictured.
Designed by Bangalore-based Amit Mirchandani, the prototype Kit Bike, is put together by attaching the various aluminium hollow tubes using simple twist joints.
The Oculus Rift Developer Kit 2 (DK2) is now being shipped to developers. It was taken apart by California-based repair site iFixit. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 screen is pictured.
The hack (pictured) was demonstrated to Wired by security researcher Silvio Cesare ahead of his talk at this week’s Black Hat conference in Vegas. Stock image pictured.
A study led by a researcher at the University of Cincinnati suggests taking short online breaks can boost productivity (stock image shown).
The shoulder-mounted system was created at MIT's d'Arbeloff Laboratory and was designed as an extension of the wearer's own limbs. Daweoo is working on a similar design that gives wearers superhuman strength.
Scientists in Amsterdam have unveiled a cookbook for future artificial meat. It comes a year after the first lab-grown burger was unveiled to the public. The book envisages food that might one day be eaten. It includes meat from animals that are extinct in the modern day. For example one page has a suggestion for 'Roast Raptor' (left) while another discusses how best to eat 'Dodo Nuggets' (top right) or drink a meat cocktail (top right).
The American astrophysicist defended genetically modified organisms, saying that they are just an extension of artificial selection and we eat very little 'wild' food.
Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark used a new type of optical fibre (stock image pictured) to transfer 43 terabits per second.
The tortoises were trained to use the touchscreen (pictured) by researchers from the University of Lincoln. They began by teaching the animals basic touchscreen functions, using their noses.
Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program in Beijing, recently said the moon is 'so rich' in helium 3, that this could 'solve humanity's energy demand for around 10,000 years at least.'
Experts at Arcturos Bear Sanctuary in Kastoria, in northern Greece, tried in vain to reunite the dehydrated cub with her mother and are now teaching Zoe survival skills.
The inventors, based in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, describe their EcoFarm as 'a symbiotic environment where the waste of the fish is used as a natural fertiliser'.
The feature (pictured) was spotted by New York-based Wall Street Journal. It is unclear whether the feature will be rolled out more widely and Twitter did not comment.
Utah researchers say the drop, which led to a change in the shape of skulls, coincided with a blossoming in culture.
A Sydney-based company is preparing to release a unified smart home device. The Ninja Sphere links different appliances in a home and controls them all. The central hub called a 'Spheramid' (left) can be controlled by phone or gesture. Using a variety of external sensors it can then turn off lights (top right) or tell someone what room their phone is in when it starts ringing (bottom right).
Psychologists from Oklahoma found children aged six to eleven concentrated more at school, and acquired better social skills if they took part in family meals (stock image pictured).
Claire Wyckoff uses the tracking app to produce drawings as she runs around San Francisco. She ‘drew’ her first image, of a corgi, in June. Her creations are uploaded to her Running Drawing blog.
A trial in Hertfordshire was genetically modified crops to produce omega-3 (shown). It is the first time plants grown outside have been made to produce fish oil.
Berlin-based hacker, Ruben Santamarta. says he's figured out how to hack equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and calls for tightened security.
Research led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown that sounds can be identified by monitoring tiny vibrations of objects (shown).
The poll was conducted by London-based uSwitch.com. Long battery life (stock image) was the top reason among 89% of respondents, while a waterproof case came second among 67%.
Researcher Ronald Dorn from Arizona discovered that ants (pictured) convert minerals found in sand into limestone, and during the conversion, carbon dioxide is trapped.
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California developed the 'acoustic bottle' to make objects invisible to sonar detection.
A study of almost 5,000 youngsters - equally divided between boys and girls - found that moderate players are happier with their lives than those who play more or those who never play at all.
Entries for The Structural Awards 2014 came from New Zealand, Turkey, China, Germany, Canada, as well as many from the UK.
London-based science writer, Peter Forbes, and Brighton sculptor, Tom Grimsey, compiled their images for their new book the 'Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal'.
The mock-up images were posted to Chinese site Weibo. It is not known whether the images are of a real iPad or whether they are just a designer's musing on what Apple's next offering will be.
The California-based billionaire made the comment while tweeting a recommendation for 'Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies’, a book that looks at how humanity will cope with AI.
A Japanese company has unveiled a virtual reality girlfriend with fake legs (shown). Using an Oculus Rift headset users interact in the virtual and real world.
Created by Japan-based Kim Taewan, the free app works by asking the user to mark either two or three points on their body, in-between which the stretching takes place.
Bones belonging to an extinct giant penguin (shown) have been found in Antarctica. They suggest a species existed that was once up to 6.63ft (2.02m) in length.
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Esa's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany (bottom right), has confirmed the probe is now in orbit within 62 miles (100km) of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (left) which is travelling at 34,000 mph (55,000 km per hour). Described as ‘the sexiest, most fantastic mission ever’, Rosetta (top right) will spend over a year analysing the comet to help uncover the secrets to life on Earth. The probe is now due to drop a small landing craft, named Philae, onto the comet's icy surface in November. One surprise in the lead up to the event was the comet's bizarre shape, with what look like two parts joined together. The comet has been dubbed the ‘rubber duck’ in space.
Reanalysis of bones (shown) found in Indonesia suggests they are not from a new species. Scientists say the finding on Flores Island, in Indonesia, can be attributed to Down's syndrome.
However, Google today confirmed that at least one of its two barges is being scrapped.
Dr Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said the the chance of finding life elsewhere in the universe was 'inevitable'.
Dr Robb Rutledge of University College London said his team were surprised to find just how important expectation is.
PaperLater allows readers to turn blogs, websites and journals into newspapers of between eight and 24 pages. The service is being offering in the UK by Glasgow-based The Newspaper Club.
University of Sussex researchers claim that the movement is so important that, if its ears are covered up, another horse struggles to know what it is thinking.
Assignment Flag Drive was created by Oxford-based Sophos. Challengers must use technical skills to break into the drive and discover as much about its owner as possible. Stock image pictured.
Researchers in Barcelona have confirmed British mathematician Alan Turing's 62-year-old theory that explains how certain patterns form (image shown).
The Gemini Observatory in Hawaii captured a massive volcano on the moon Io (shown). The huge outpouring of heat was hotter than anything on modern Earth.
Montana-based scientist has revealed how astronauts 'do the business' on the ISS (toilet shown). In a video Hank Green explains how pumps are used to collect waste.
A robotic vehicle off Mexico's Guadalup Island has been attacked by a shark (left). The dramatic footage was captured by six cameras on the Remus SharkCam (bottom right). In the video the shark tried to eat the robotic vehicle. When it realises it is not food it begins to attack it and mark its territory (top right). The video could help reveal how sharks hunt.
The smart glasses consist of a video camera on the frame of the glasses; a computer processing unit and software that projects images into the eyepieces.
The new lines were revealed following sandstorms in Nazca region of Peru. Experts believe they depict a snake, and a camelid above an unidentified bird. (pictured).
The 'Toilet - Human Waste and Earth's Future exhibition is being held at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo. It covers the shape of human waste and has giant toilet slides (pictured).
Called Hicon, the bangle from Italian firm Things-Lab is due to retail for $89 (£52) and go on sale in November.
Bill Kenny from Croghan Hill was inspired to launch the the peat-based Ógra skincare range after seeing the well-preserved Iron Age body of 'Old Croghan Man' found in a County Offaly bog in 2003.
Astronomers using Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered a monster elliptical galaxy so large it has created a lens allowing researcher to see back 9.6 billion years.
An art director in San Francisco came up with the idea for the website, where anyone can submit a video with a positive message to cheer others up.
Houston-based firm Celestis is offering four different options starting at $995 (£590) that will see pets ashes launched into orbit and even deep space this autumn.
Berlin-based Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell reverse engineered the firmware that controls USB functions (stock image pictured) and discovered they could reprogram it malicious code.
Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have following a quantum system’s movements before it collapses into a 'classical state', a feat once considered impossible.
The concept images (pictured) were created by Californian artist Cuba Lee. He depicts how space miners will extract minerals from space rocks using large drills and gas chambers.
Scientists from the Vienna University of Technology separated a neutron from its magnetic moment for the first time, like how the Cheshire Cat loses its smile (illustration shown).
WARNING: Some of these illusions may make you feel nauseous. Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka, from Ritsumseikan University, in Kyoto, Japan, has spent more than a decade creating his collection of works. Having originally studied animal psychology, Professor Kitaoka, 52, decided to focus on optical illusions after looking into their effect on monkeys, while working at a neuroscience institute. His illusion Rotating Rays is pictured top left, Autumn Colour Swamp is top right, Ampan Factory is pictured bottom left and Construction Of A Subway By Rabbits is bottom right.
The cells, designed by Sheffield University, are made from perovskite, and when used as a spray (illustration pictured), produce very little waste. Prototype cells have an efficiency rating of 11%.
Archaeologists discovered treasures ranging from weapons to musical instruments, which were buried with king Liu Fei in an area of modern day Xuyi County, China.
The gruesome fine was made in 2,000 years ago in the Danish town of Skanderborg at the edge of the Roman Empire.
California researchers have found a way to make see-through mice, and say they could help see how cancer spreads.
Among the most exciting instruments on the rover is Moxie, a machine that converts carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere to pure oxygen for rocket fuel.
Archaeologists found the ancient fragment of mammoth ivory belonging to the Ice Age animal figurine in Vogelherd Cave in Germany.
Wonder material graphene aerogel – which is so light it can balance on top of a flower – could be used to make parachutes for aeroplane passengers.
The device provides thrust by bouncing microwaves in a closed container. The finding by the Houston-based space agency could bring human deep space travel a step closer.
Texas researchers say pain relievers such as ibuprofen affect men and women very differently.
A total of 3,614 adults took part in the survey, commissioned by Twickenham-based Tech 21, during July 2014. Stock image pictured.
Physicists at the University of Maryland have found a way to make air behave like an optical fibre, which could guide light beams over long distances without losing power.
Inventors in Tel Aviv, Israel, have come up with a smart light bulb adapter that can be controlled with simple voice commands that can also be customised.
There is only one operational High Secure Infectious Diseases Unit in the UK, at the Royal Free Hospital in London, pictured, which has an array of specialist equipment.
Nasa's Opportunity rover has now traveled over 25 miles (40 km) on Mars. The distance set by the Washington-based agency took 10 years and is a new record for off-Earth driving.
Scientists at the University of Michigan have discovered a technique to lock away photos, videos and other documents in tiny particles suspended in water.
The popular dating site has been removing users' photos and adjusting 'match percentages' to see how it would change the likelihood of a match.
The images are part of the 'Art of Science' exhibition being held by Princeton University in New Jersey. The winner was this image of the patterns created by water moving back and forth on the Atlantic coast.
The California firm's Yosemite software will let users make calls via their iPhone from a Mac, and start work on an iPad before picking up in the same place on a Mac.
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.
Astronomers led from University of Manchester studied a distant pulsar. Called J1023 it seems to be sucking gas from a companion and vanishing (illustration shown).
$30 figures can be customised to look like a 'mini-me' using a new amazon customisation app - and the firm promised 3D printing is the start of a 'shift in retail'.
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