The Rainbow House is a four-bedroom town home that has been transformed into a bright and unique design - but you will need deep pockets to afford the rent.
The computer-controlled convoys will allow drivers to read and relax rather than concentrate on the road. Similar technology was tested in Germany last month, pictured. ...read
Researchers from the University of Tennessee studied near-Earth asteroid 1950 DA, which may hit Earth in 867 years, and discovered its body rotates so quickly it defies gravity.
A Google employee reportedly said that the tech company uses a Kevlar-like material to protect its fibre optic wires from shark bites. Stock image pictured.
Noah Petro, a project scientist for the Houston-based space agency, believes the photo (pictured) was taken by one of the Apollo missions in the 1970s.
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London teamed up with Nokia to create a prototype device (pictured) that generates five volts of electricity by harvesting sound vibrations.
Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that gyroscopes, which are used in games (pictured), can pick up the frequency of soundwaves around them.
The planets will be visible before sunrise at around 5am in the UK (midnight EST) and will appear only 0.2 degrees apart. An image of a previous 'double star' in Canada is pictured.
Investigations were carried out by London-based security researchers and the BBC. They bought second-hand devices (Hudl pictured) from auction sites including eBay.
Researchers, led by the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, said the new map (pictured) could help scientists explain what makes up the material that creates 'diffuse interstellar bands' or DIBs.
Penelope Wybrow, 41, from Hillingdon, London, is one of the first patients in the world to benefit from the new-style implant, which is the size of a matchbox and sits just under the muscle below the collarbone. The mother-of-two, a carer for the elderly and disabled children, has cardiomyopathy and, due to its progress, has a high chance of needing an MRI scan. ...read
The SMS Audio BioSport In-Ear Headphones (pictured) will debut later this year and were created the rapper's Florida-based SMS Audio firm, in partnership with Intel.
Professor Westwood, an expert in plant pathology, physiology, and weed science at Virginia Tech hopes the findings will help increase food production.
Minnesota-based meat company, Hormel Foods, collaborated with a biodiesel firm to make fuel from bacon grease which is being used to power a motorbike.
A psychologist at the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences claims alcohol ‘releases the beast within’ among religious people. Stock image pictured.
The tennis-ball speaker was developed in Oakland, California, and hovers 1.2 inches (3cm) above a base to produce 100 decibels of sound when connected by bluetooth to a phone.
An international team, led by the University of California, Berkeley, said the seven specks of cosmic dust will help explain how dust clouds collapse to form solar systems.
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of when the Simon (pictured inset) first went on sale in the US, and in October it will get a new lease of life as part of a permanent exhibition at London's Science Museum. Simon had a short lifespan, partly because it was so far ahead of its time. Charlotte Connelly of the Science Museum in London is pictured holding the device.
California-based Facebook announced it was splitting its messaging service (pictured) in April, and the changes have started to be rolled out to users worldwide.
Scientists from the University of Lincoln say that an people who have lucid dreams have an extra level of insight, which helps them to solve problems when they are awake.
An online breakdown caused chaos on Tuesday, costing the economy millions of pounds in lost trade and effectively closing access to a number of huge website.
Neutrinos are produced by the decay of radioactive material. Now scientists at Virginia Tech University are investigating just how accurate neutrinos are when detecting nuclear activity.
The 'ButterUp' gadget was created by a Sydney-based group of inventors. They hope to sell for between £6 to £8 ($10 to $13.30), if their Kickstarter campaign is successful.
Ectogenesis technology has been in development since 2001 and American-Hungarian futurist Zoltan Istvan believes it will be widely available by 2044. Illustration pictured.
The remains were discovered at Cruzeiro do Oeste in Brazil and covered an area of less than 215 sq ft.
Use of the word binge-watch has shown a notable spike in usage recorded around the release of Orange Is The New Black season two (pictured) in June 2014.
A new restaurant in Jiangsu Province, China, is staffed by 15 droids (main image) that not only cook food, but act as attentive and entertaining waiters too. Some of the robots can manage polite conversation, as well as greeting customers with 40 different phrases. The use of robots in restaurants in China is increasing and droids that cook food (pictured top right) and serve guests (bottom right) have been working for a few years.
A recent patent filed by the Cupertino-based company suggests the firm may be working on a mouse that is more responsive by working like a games controller.
Scientists from Cambridge University say the Cyphochilus beetle’s scales can scatter light better than any other natural thing and could lead to brighter computer screens and paints.
The WorldView-3 spacecraft (illustration pictured) from Colorado-based DigitalGlobe. It identifies objects as small as 1 foot (31cm). It launched into space from California on Wednesday.
Traces of embalming agents were found in the linen used to wrap bodies in one of the earliest recorded ancient Egyptian cemeteries at Mostagedda, in the region of Upper Egypt.
The patch (pictured) developed by researchers at the University of California San Diego, strips electrons from lactate, which is naturally produced in sweat.
The UN, which has headquarters in New York, has said it plans to establish the International Analysis and Warning Network (IAWN) team to deal with asteroids.
Researchers at the U.S. National Marine Mammal Foundation in California found the squeals expressed feeling of 'delight' and not the presence of food.
Tools (pictured) are part of a modification on Grand Theft Auto V. Modifications are alterations created by fans. New York-based developers Rockstar Games claim to have no affiliation with.
This is according to Dr Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at Seti Institute in California, who claims the hardware needed to explore deep space is still on the drawing board.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison claims previous studies used contradictory data. It believes Earth was warming long before human activity affected the climate.
This is the extraordinary image of North Korea almost completely in the dark, apart from a small amount of light coming from its capital city Pyongyang. Lights can clearly be seen in its surrounding countries of Russia, China and South Korea - where the capital Seoul just 35 miles from the border. The night image from the International Space Station is so clear thanks to the European Space Agency's NightPod, installed there two years ago.
Youtube user Wowforreal posted a video showing the strange figure that can be seen on Google Moon.
The San Francisco-based USB Promoter Group designed the slimmer plug to better fit increasingly sleek smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks.
The dinosaur tracks were among the best examples in the world, but vandals have defaced them at the site at Bendrick Rock, between Barry and Sully, on the South Wales coast.
Researchers from University of Colorado Denver examined street network density in cities. They then studied data collected by the California Health Interview Survey.
Researchers from the University of Missouri asked 67 people to take part in error recognition tasks. Each group was aware they made the error, but the alcohol group were less concerned.
Close to 150 population geneticists have signed a letter condemning the book, written by science writer Nicholas Wade, called A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History.
Researchers from University College London believe life’s Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) had a leaky membrane that harnessed energy, causing it to grow.
Genetically modified versions of the Mediterranean fruit fly have been created using controversial technology developed by the UK bioscience company Oxitec.
Experts from Swat Archaeology in Kent made the discovery near Sittingbourne in Kent. The ring of ditches (pictured from above inset) is believed to have been a henge, or ceremonial gathering place, and has a diameter of 98ft (30 metres). Archaeologists believe the outer ring (pictured main) dates to the Neolithic period, but was later transformed into a Bronze Age funerary monument. Experts also uncovered a path, which is thought to have been a ‘sacred way’ to the henge.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (inset), operated by mission control in California, discovered the trail left behind after a SUV-sized rock rolling down a Martian hill. The path, resembling a dotted line from the upper left to middle right of the main image, is the track left by an irregularly shaped, oblong boulder as it tumbled down a slope on Mars before coming to rest in an upright position. Analysis of the rock's shadow suggests that the boulder is about 20ft tall (6 metres) and 11.5ft wide (3.5 metres).
Scientists from universities in Pisa, Parma and Rome found that the 'catching yawn' is caused by a need to share and understand the emotions and feelings of others.
One of the scientists behind the new material at Liverpool University said it is stable, cheap and absorbs carbon dioxide 'extremely well'.
German scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München believe they have discovered microbes living within droplets of water found in oil at Pitch Lake in Trinidad and Tobago.
The After Dark initiative is online from 13 to 17 August. The virtual tours of London's Tate Britain are timed, and once a driver's turn ends, the tour passes to another passengers.
Almost a third of 18 to 24-year-olds now use the California-based self-destructing messaging app (pictured) compared to 24% of Twitter app users.
Called Faster, the project will connect Japan to the west coast of the US. The cable (stock image pictured) will stretch 5,000 miles (8,000 km) under the ocean and to link up with local cable systems.
The changes are now available on the iOS and Android versions of the San Francisco-based app (pictured).
California-based Twitter now has more than 270 million active users, of which approximately 23 million never visit the site. Instead, they pull information automatically using other apps.
The mastodon remains are 22,000 years old, according to radio-carbon dating - up to ten thousand years older than the Clovis culture, thought to be the first settlers in the Western Hemisphere. The incredible archaeological find was discovered in 230 feet of water 60 miles off shore in 1974. Fishermen who were dragging their scalloping nets across the bottom of the bay snagged a massive mastodon skull and dragged it to the surface. Also in the net was a flint knife.
The technology, created by Washington-based Microsoft Research, creates a stunning 'hyper lapse' by removing the shakes in the original footage using its tailored algorithm.
The face was spotted by the German Aerospace Centre and is an example of a phenomenon known as Pareidolia - the human psychological response to seeing faces in everyday items.
The comments were made in an open letter to Apple by California-based Jean-Louise Gassée (pictured). He criticised the store for curating apps with algorithms, rather than humans.
Engineers at Stanford University in California found that Anna's Hummingbird (pictured) is more efficient than the very best micro helicopter.
Engineers at Dalian University of Technology in north eastern China built a 3D computer model of a woodpecker to examine how energy is absorbed in its body.
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.
Using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, scientists said they said they were 'surprised' by the bright storms they observed this week on the planet.
Sounds of Street View (Monaco pictured) was created for Manchester-based hearing aid specialists Amplifon UK. The project adds audio to locations using sound markers in Google Maps.
Anders Sandberg from Oxford University claims electromagnetic pulses from weapons or solar storms will wreak havoc on the world's fragile electrical infrastructure.
The image, taken this morning, shows (from left to right) Typhoon Halong, Hurricane Genevieve, Hurricane Iselle, and Hurricane Julion simultaneously moving across the Pacific Ocean.
The tomb, situated on a mound (pictured) in the Amphipolis region of Serres in Greece, has been described by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras as ‘extremely important’. It is believed to date back between 325 and 300BC, which means it could have been built during the reign of Alexander the Great. Experts previously found ornate walls are arches leading to the tomb and they believe it could hold the remains of a senior ancient official.
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.
Researchers in Germany found that people who shared knowledge (stock image shown) were more likely to be successful than those who kept to themselves.
The leaked images were posted by Moscow designers Feld and Volk and claim to show the rear shell, raised camera ring, and embedded Apple logo (pictured).
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.
Research by psychologist Ann Marie Ryan, from Michigan State University, suggests recruiters prefer more masculine traits in industries such as engineering.
The dress (pictured) was created by Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht in partnership with band ArcAttack, which makes music using Tesla coils.
Experts at the Edmund Mach Foundation wine academy in Italy discovered dramatic differences between wines depending on where the bottles were stored.
Created by designers in Monaco, the X R-Evolution yacht is designed to give its owners privacy so they could stay in floating 'bungalows' by the beach (shown in the main image). Different modules such as the bungalows can be towed long by the vessel (pictured top inset). It is currently a concept but could be built for millions of pounds. The design features a giro system to keep living quarters level and an inflatable walkway to connect the yacht with the beach, as well as an airy layout (pictured bottom inset).
An international team of scientists have been able to sequence the genome of Cinnamon, an Abyssinian cat living at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Scientists at Monash University, Australia, identified peptides from parasitic worms that suppress the body’s immune response.
The new camera was developed by scientists at the University of Tokyo and Keio University in Japan and uses a technique called motion-based femtophotography to capture movement.
A bottlenose dolphin (stock image) has been reported to have 'lashed out' at a swimmer in County Cork, Ireland, leading experts to warn people to keep away.
The technique, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works using thousands of tiny metal bristles that move in response to a magnet.
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 research was carried out by at Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, and presented the case of a woman who had been hospitalised for suicidal thoughts.
Best-selling author Kathy Lette's sporty black BMW became the latest car with keyless ignition system to be stolen - and police have warned they can be vulnerable.
The 2014 Jeep Cherokee (pictured) and 2015 Cadillac Escalade were the most vulnerable cars studied by Chris Valasek, and Missouri-based Charlie Miller.
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 free service, created by a graduate in San Francisco, relies on text messages so it can be used by people without a smartphone and in areas without an internet connection.
A robotic vehicle off Mexico's Guadalup Island has been attacked by a shark (shown). The dramatic footage was captured by six cameras on the Remus SharkCam.
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 face was spotted by the German Aerospace Centre and is an example of a phenomenon known as Pareidolia - the human psychological response to seeing faces in everyday items.
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.
The Air-Pot, from Midlothian-based Caledonian Tree Company, is a plastic container, made from recycled bottles, and perforated with of holes.
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The incredible images of the annual shower were taken in Kent (right) and Cambridgeshire (bottom left) in the UK, Madrid in Spain and Novi Travnik in Bosnia (top left). The shower happens every August and is caused by debris from the huge Swift-Tuttle comet falling into the Earth's atmosphere. For those who missed the display last night, there is a chance to catch it again tonight if you're in Britain, Europe or North America.
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 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.
Navdy, built in San Francisco, is a dashboard-mounted heads-up display (HUD) that connects to an Android or iOS smartphone via Bluetooth.
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.
The Dead Prize has been created by the London-based cofounder of Architecture for Humanity to recognise mistakes and inspire better future inventions.
A dramatic 'supermoon' is set to accompany this year's Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated events on the skywatcher's calendar.
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.
Scientists at the University of Utah create system to find lost dogs (shown). Their website called Finding Rover matches dogs with an online database.
A hospital in Holland has developed a breakthrough treatment for burns patients. The patient plays a video game using virtual reality glasses during the treatment of his wounds.
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.
The unnamed female Megallanic penguin (pictured right) was hatched in May in Sea World, California. She was conceived using semen that had been frozen then thawed (pictured left), and is now 12 weeks old. She was being hand-reared at the centre's Penguin Encounter nursery and has now joined naturally-born chicks (pictured inset). Researchers are hoping to use artificial insemination to increase the genetic diversity of penguin species.
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.
Bournemouth-based teacher Andy Brunning has explained the reaction on his Compound Interest blog. Stock image of tanning lotion is pictured.
A Microsoft researcher from Beijing is developing screens that feature a clicking sensations when pressing on-screen buttons, for example. Prototype pictured.
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.
Austrian campaigner Max Schrems launched the campaign (pictured) last week and is claiming damages of €500 (£397) per supporter.
The interactive map, run by scientists in Boston, uses algorithms to scour tens of thousands of social media sites, local news and government websites to detect and track disease outbreaks.
Scientists in Amsterdam have unveiled a cookbook for future artificial meat (shown). It comes a year after the first lab-grown burger was unveiled to the public.
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.
A Sydney-based company is preparing to release a unified smart home device (shown). The Ninja Sphere links different appliances in a home and controls them all.
Esa's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, has confirmed the probe is now in orbit within 62 miles (100km) of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko which is travelling at 34,000 mph (55,000 km per hour).
The Nasa footage shows a June test of the saucer-shaped craft conducted over Hawaii. Although successful, the test didn't go quite to plan with the parachute failing to work properly.. The goal of this flight test was to determine if the balloon-launched, rocket-powered, saucer-shaped, design could reach the altitudes and airspeeds needed to test two new breakthrough technologies destined for future Mars missions. One of these is the world's largest parachute, which has more than double the area of the parachute which was used for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that carried the Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
A study led by a researcher at the University of Cincinnati suggests taking short online breaks can boost productivity (stock image shown).
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.
Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark used a new type of optical fibre (stock image pictured) to transfer 43 terabits per second.
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 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%.
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.
The American astrophysicist defended genetically modified organisms, saying that they are just an extension of artificial selection and we eat very little 'wild' food.
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.
The infographic was created by Washington-based World Resources Institute based on data from the IPCC report earlier this year.
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.
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.
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.
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