US astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this image as he woke up, telling Twitter followers it was 'tough to beat a good sunrise'.
A Finnish astrophotographer has created 3D animations of nebulae (Lagoon Nebula shown). In each can be seen the structure, shape and features of the objects. Metsävainio created the images using known images to certain stars. He then estimates how the rest of the nebula might look in 3D. Nebulae he focuses on include the Lagoon Nebula and the Bubble Nebula.
The latest version of Apple's iOS software is expected to feature a 'one handed' mode to allow typing on the bigger screen.
At its closest approach, the 20 metre-long asteroid 2014 RC will be above New Zealand on 7 September at about 20.18 BST. Amateur astronomers with telescopes might be able to glimpse its appearance, Nasa said.
Luckey Palmer, the 21 year old co-founder of the LA firm promised the headset is 'going to be as cheap as possible.'
Cardiff researchers say putting plants around the office could increase productivity by 15%.
The UK designer will be part of senior vice president of design Jonathan Ive's team, and is believed to have already worked on some Apple projects - including the iWatch.
Health experts have slammed the alcohol industry's 'drink responsibly' ads and called for tough warnings similar to those found on cigarette packets to be used.
The global Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, launched last year in California, hopes to inspire a wireless device capable of detecting a range of diseases, including anaemia, tuberculosis and diabetes. The prize was inspired by the Star Trek tricorder (right). Now ten finalists have been chosen from a diverse range of backgrounds including a team backed by Nasa and the Bill Gates Foundation, and others who come from university departments. According to the rules of the contest, finalists have to demonstrate their devices on humans next year and three winners will be announced in 2016, with a top prize of £4.3 million ($7 million). On the bottom left is the Cloud DX Bio device and the top left device is the ScaNurse tricorder.
Research led by the University of Florida says dogs prefer petting (stock image shown). In the study they found dogs were more satisfied by physical contact.
San Francisco firm Coin is about top let the first testers try its $100 smart card.
California-based Apple's chief executive Tim Cook (pictured) made the announcement following the celebrity photo scandal that saw hundreds of images stolen from the online service.
Based on analysis of rock in the Singhbhum Craton of Odisha, geologists at Trinity College Dublin claim that oxygen-producing lifeforms began flourishing much earlier.
Illinois-based Motorola’s watch (pictured) has a 1.56-inch display and 4GB of storage. It is compatible with Android 4.3 and higher and is set to launch in the UK at the start of October for £199.
The LG G Watch R (pictured) was unveiled at the IFA trade show in Berlin. It has a 1.3-inch diameter screen, runs Android Wear and comes with 4GB of storage.
The system uses a blue dinosaur to guide users through three steps. The California-based social network announced the feature in June following criticism over its data mining practices.
Apple is expected to unveil a new range of products (iWatch and iPhone 6 concept pictured) at an event in California on Tuesday. The devices are set to go on sale ten days later on 19 September.
Chinese engineer Zhang Bingyan has unveiled his novel plane design. Called the Sf-1 the aircraft (main) is made of a rubber composite material (top right). It has a maximum speed of 120 miles (190km) per hour and can fly up to 3,000 metres (10,000ft) with a load of 25 kg (55lbs). The engine is pictured top left. Bingyan says it could be used for air photography and remote monitoring. The flexibility of the plane also means it will survive falls from a great height.
University of Michigan researchers say following dietary guidelines could increase greenhouse gas emissions. They say certain guidelines do not have environmental impacts in mind.
In December 2013 the Hubble telescope spotted water vapour above Europa (illustration shown). But follow-up observations have failed to make the same observation.
Mexican researchers found mushrooms feed on cellulose, an ingredient in diapers, and ground up diapers to create a fertiliser.
The $5 billion facility will cut current battery production costs by up to 30 per cent, and will be powered predominantly by renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
Utah researchers monitored palm sweat, breathing and cardiovascular responses such as heart rate in a bid to see if 3D was worth the extra cash.
Microsoft hopes a new 'selfie phone' will help it lure people away from Apple and Google handsets - but admitted the industry had to 'amplify the message around security'.
Researchers in Australia found men were targeted in 84 per cent of all unprovoked shark attacks - and also say women are statistically more likely to survive a shark attack.
Astronomers led by Southern Connecticut State University say that half of all planets in the universe may have two suns (illustration shown) like the planet Tatooine from the film Star Wars.
Eva Håkansson and her home-built electric motorcycle 'KillaJoule' this week smashed several records at Bonneville (inset). With a top speed of 241.901 mph (389.219 km/h) and a two-way average of 240.726 mph (387.328 km/h), she beat the previous electric motorcycle speed record by 25 mph - becoming the world's fastest female on a motorcycle in the process.
EXCLUSIVE: Dutch-based musician Kyteman (pictured right) was asked to compose a song for 19-year-old Vera van Dijk. Ms van Dijk was born deaf and has a cochlear implant to help improve her hearing.
London-born Sir Jonathan Ive (pictured) is said to have made the claims to an Apple designer. The iWatch is expected to be launched at an event on 9 September.
Buffalo scientists have unravelled the genetic code of the coffee bean for about 30 percent of the world's coffee production.
The recipe for Kishkiyya was found in a 10th century cookbook translated by Salem-based Iraqi scholar Nawal Nasrallah in ‘Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens.’
Evidence found by Macquarie University suggests volunteers in a 1961 obedience study (pictured) felt they were contributing to science, which made their actions seem moral and worthy.
Experts say Apple's iWatch will come in male and female versions - and will be launched alongside two updated iPads and the iPhone 6 next week in San Francisco.
Brown University scientists in Providence found that pre-human extinction rate was 10 times lower than scientists had believed, which means that the current level is 10 times worse.
Early relatives of mammals that roamed the earth 320 million years ago did so at night, researchers have found.
The claims were made by Prof Gina Rippon of Aston University in Birmingham, who cited a study showing women 'grew' the part of their brains used for spatial skills.
The images were taken by Japanese photographer, Haruhiro Rokuta, 26, who watched the locust lay its eggs over one hour in his studio in Yokohoma City.
The study, undertaken in the Pernambuco, Brazil, reveals new insights into how monkeys learn from each other in the wild. Tina Gunhold at the University of Vienna, Austria, worked with researchers at St Andrews University to film a common marmoset retrieving a banana slice from a plastic device. They then placed a screen in a protective enclosure in the jungle and played the video on loop. Twelve marmosets were able to open the box, 11 of which had seen it done first in a video. One monkey could do it after just seeing the still image.
The animals, discovered on the south-east Australian continental slope, are known Dendrogramma.
The probe, named Hayabusa-2, is expected to be flung into space in December for a four year voyage to asteroid 1999JU3, according to the Tokyo-based space agency.
Massachusetts researchers say adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for substance use disorder reported experiencing symptoms of withdrawal.
An inventor in Tennessee has revealed his odour-eliminating toilet seat. Called Fresh Air Plus (shown) the device has a built-in fan to get rid of bad smells.
Security experts at Califronia-based Symantec have discovered emails and text messages pretending to be from Apple and trying to steal information. Jennifer Lawrence (pictured) was a victim of the hack.
The actress tweeted that she had received over ten emails asking for her password and threatening to shut down her accounts if she did not respond.
The firm has said it is 'looking into the issue' which took the site offline for both mobile and desktop users.
Aaron Stutz, an associate professor of anthropology at Emory's Oxford College in Georgia created a new model of demographic and archaeological data to show when humans thrived.
The Dyson 360 Eye, (pictured top right) designed in Wiltshire, has a 360° lens (pictured left) so it knows where it is in a room and where it has already cleaned. Live cameras capture 30 images a second to build a picture of the room, and the Dyson Eye then uses mapping software to plot its route around the house. ‘Tank tracks’ (pictured bottom right) mean it can move between different floor types easily, and its digital motor spins at 78,000 RPM - making it the highest suction of any robot vacuum. It is expected to cost in the region of £750 when it goes on sale in Britain next summer.
Californian-based company Schiller has designed a water bike (shown). Called the X1 it lets cyclists travel over bodies of water by pedal-power.
Researchers at University of Vienna say cars look like their owners (stock image shown). They found people could associate owners with the front of their vehicles.
Cincinnati-based electrical engineer Lee Hite put the theories to the test by bouncing good and bad batteries through a tube (pictured). He then opened them to discover how they differed inside.
EXCLUSIVE: A UK-wide survey has revealed that a quarter of parents would struggle to complete tasks expected of five-year-olds under the new curriculum.
The new president of the British Science Association launched a thinly-veiled attack on former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson during a speech in London yesterday.
Researchers in South Korea say finger ratios on the right hand of males (shown) is an indicator of the size of their testicles. Men with larger testes were found to have longer ring than index fingers.
Cornell researchers found that TV viewers ate more while watching action flicks than when watching an interview.
Swatch Chief Executive Nick Hayek warned Apple and Google 'Technology alone doesn't sell, not in watches'.
Hawaiian researchers say the structure is 500 million light years across, and contains 100,000 galaxies and the mass of a hundred quadrillion suns. It it is also home to the Milky Way (marked in red).
Electrical current was delivered using magnetic pulses, and also improved people's ability to learn new skills, said the Northwestern researchers.
2015 models will come with a built in hotspot capable of connecting to the high speed 4G LTE network.
Nasa operators have found the Opportunity rover's memory is beginning to fail - and they plan to wipe it completely in a bid to fix the bugs and restore the rover to its sprightly best.
Scientists at Imperial College London have found a way to use the gut bacteria E.coli - often behind attacks of diarrhoea - to help generate propane gas.
Researchers in Kyoto University have engineered a membrane (pictured left) called PIM-1, ‘embedded with a network of channels that can trap gases of once they enter.'
Tufts University researchers say it is possible to reverse the addictive power of unhealthy food while also increasing preference for healthy foods.
The articles reveal details about child abuser Josef Fritzl, Tory justice minister, Jonathan Djanogly, former Tory justice minister and Prince William's friend Edward Stanbury.
The study from Prague-based security firm Avast surveyed 13,132 people in relationships across the US. It found one in five men, and a quarter of women check their partner’s phones
Tel-Aviv based designers have re-imagined a tool from 1.4 million years ago (right). The Man Made project used 3D scanning and printing to create different handles and grips including a spear (bottom left) and 'latching' tool (top left). It was intended to highlight different ways the hand axe was once used. The primitive object used by the distant ancestors of modern man is believed to be the first-ever tool. To make their own tools the designers found flint rocks in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
The streaming device (pictured) will also enable users to play games, including Flappy Bird, Amazon's senior vice president of devices announced at the IFA technology show in Berlin.
Three male cockatoos (Kiwi pictured) learnt to use wooden sticks at Oxford University by mimicking an older bird, who had previously used wood to reach food in his aviary.
Apple's much anticipated health monitoring iWatch is set to be unveiled on September 9th - but you won't be able to buy in until 2015.
The firm said it was 'outraged' by the attacks, and said it they were caused by 'a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions'.
Swedish researchers say skin carries out complex calculations to send messages to the brain about what touches us.
New York researchers created a laser-based method of measuring how cocaine disrupts blood flow in the brains of mice.
A researcher in France says bodies of liquid on Titan may be fed by underground springs (illustrated). The finding was made when studying how methane rain interacts with lakes.
EXCLUSIVE: Facebook mobile users are experiencing higher than usual data charges due to autoplay videos, according to research by London-based site MoneySavingExpert.
Research by University of Copenhagen offers new theories about the disappearance of Paleo-Eskimos, 700 years ago. This coincided with the arrival of ancestors of modern Eskimos (pictured).
Scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory examined the complex interaction between humans and the microbes that live on and around us (illustrated).
A company in the Netherlands has designed robotic birds of prey for pests. Called Robirds (top right) they mimic real falcons and eagles to scare other birds. They are remote controlled by an operator on the ground and like real birds they flap their wings to stay in the air (left). The Robirds are 3D printed from glass fibre and nylon composite. They can apparently withstand being flown straight into the ground. Up to 75 per cent of birds have been scared off in some areas using them (bottom right).
The cross-hatched engravings inside Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar are the first known examples of Neanderthal rock art.
Researchers at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts and Harvard University say the Ebola virus (shown) is mutating rapidly. The findings show it is becoming more difficult to diagnose and treat.
Wolf whistles. Car alarms. Mobile phones. Lawn mowers. Birds will try anything that takes their fancy. It can be very annoying.
Unveiled in Berlin, Samsung Gear VR, users slip a Note 3 tablet into the headset to act as a screen.
Eating less meat is "essential" to ensure future demand for food can be met and "dangerous" climate change avoided, experts have warned. A study by leading u...
New York researchers found the rate of divorce among short men is significantly less than among average and tall men.
Beijing-based group Baidu said the smart chopsticks were first created as a joke, but the company has now gone on to create several prototypes to commercialise in the future.
Separate research in Japan and Loughborough has found that taking a 'coffee nap' can improve memory, alertness and reduce the number of errors made in tests.
US Astronaut Reid Wiseman and his German colleague Alexander Gerst, who are currently aboard the station, are prolific snappers - as these incredible snaps show. The pair have even developed their own styles, with Gerst preferring abstract patterns on the Earth's surface, while Wiseman favours storms and cities. These images show (top left) a cloud vortex, an irrigation system in the Mid-Western USA (top right), floods in northern India (bottom left) and a crater on the Earth's surface (bottom right).
Researchers at the University of Miami say they have found evidence in the form of supernovas that exploded millions of years ago (image shown) that our solar system is inside a 'bubble'.
Jiff the pomeranian from Los Angeles, California, can run 32 feet (10 metres) on his hind legs in 6.56 seconds.
The California-based group said it has teamed up with physicist John Martinis to build quantum processors based on ground-breaking electronic material.
Professor Ross McKitrick from the University of Guelph in Canada studied land and ocean temperatures since 1850. He compared this to satellite data from 1979. Illustrated.
The video footage shows a species of ants called Leptogenys making a chain to transport the heavy insect burden, somewhere in south east Asia.
Purdue University ecologists have spent decades collecting sounds around the world. They are asking people to record their own sounds on an app, then plotted on a map (pictured).
The golden mantilla (pictured) is a frog with no croak that is among the top 10 reptiles and amphibians currently avoiding extinction with the help of zoos.
California researchers claim that the human 'anger face' is actually universal.
The company, based in Nancy, France, claims its lightweight insole is the first wholly connected design of its type and fits into most types of shoes.
The ZQ Intelligence scheme is run by San Diego-based Luth Research. It pays participants a monthly fee to track website visits, search entries and time spent on social networks.
South Korean-based Samsung has surprisingly revealed a curved phablet (left). It beats Apple to the punch, who are apparently also planning curved devices. The Galaxy Note Edge has a curved right hand side that can display notifications like a 'ticker'. It also sports a 16MP rear-facing camera and a 3.7MP front camera.
EXCLUSIVE: An interactive map (left) from Europe's MeteoGroup lets you watch weather unfold around the world. By selecting different icons weather of varying types can be watched live in different countries. For example users can see the global cloud cover and also where it is raining at the moment. The interactive map even tracks the path of tropical storms (top right) and shows global temperatures (bottom right).
Ansa (pictured) was created by 23-year-old Natalie Bryla from San Francisco. It lets people send self-destructing text messages, photos and videos when using the ‘off the record’ mode.
Nasa Astronaut Reid Wiseman shared the amazing footage on Vine, showing the cargo spacecraft Cygnus being released along with a separate clip showing its re-entry.
Chicago scientists have built a special 'tripping' walkway (pictured) that recreates the effect of slipping on a banana skin.
The 2,000-year-old hoard includes gold armlets, earrings and rings as well as silver chains, rings and coins, buried in a clutch bag, which was found beneath Colchester's High Street.
Researchers at the University at Buffalo in New York, studied the effects of smoking marijuana and if it led to violence, in the first nine years of marriage.
A unique experiment (pictured) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has started collecting data about whether we exist in a hologram.
Scientists from Seattle Children's Research Institute discovered the dorsal medial habenula controls the desire to exercise in mice and thinks it could do the same in humans (stock image).
The experiment allowed physicists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna to observe the cat without ever having to 'look' at it. They believe it is the result of a theory known as quantum entanglement.
Researchers from the University of Gothenberg studied 76 children aged 10 and 11. Data was collected via questionnaires and a language diary. Stock image pictured.
Scientists at Arizona State University fired wooden and stone-tipped spears (pictured) into gelatine to examine the nature of the impact.
Radar images from the UK's Sentinel-1A satellite have been used to map the biggest earthquake that has shaken northern California in 25 years.
The images reveal the rupture is larger than previously thought
California-based Mota has become the latest company to unveil high-tech jewellery that can notify you whenever you're tagged on Facebook or have a reply to your tweet.
Samsung, based in South Korean, has unveiled the world’s first smartwatch that can make and receive calls without the aid of a nearby smartphone.
A researcher at Tufts University in Massachusetts has found that dogs get separation anxiety (stock image shown) when their young owners go back to school.
The small, wheeled robots, currently being tested by engineers at the Kennedy's Launch Control Center in Florida, each have a webcam, WiFi antenna and GPS device.
The skeleton of the Dreadnoughtus schrani (illustrated) - seven times bigger than T-Rex - was found in southern Patagonia in Argentina.
Apple's password reset system for accounts has become the latest target in the hunt to find out how nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and '100 other celebrities' were leaked.
Ai Hin (not pictured) is thought to have displayed behaviour suggesting she was pregnant to get an air conditioned room and treats at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Centre, China.
The find at the landmark in Wiltshire suggests Stonehenge was at the heart of a busy heathen processional route over 4,000 years ago.
Google’s car (pictured) can’t currently cope in heavy rain or snow – or find its way around 99 per cent of the US, an insider has admitted.
Some people predict the device in the video (pictured) may be a robotic vacuum cleaner, because Dyson invested in a lab for robots at Imperial College London, earlier this year.
Joseph West, a physicist at Indiana University, has suggested that workers should have transformed blocks into dodecagons (main image) in order to pull them along more easily. His idea centres around reducing both the drag and the amount of effort needed to move the blocks as well as the pressure exerted on the ground. The Great Pyramid in Giza (pictured top and bottom right) is made from 2.4million limestone blocks weighing in at around 2.5 tonnes each.
System would use the iPhone's fingerprint sensor to prove the owner's identity, and is expected to be unveiled next week.
Researchers at the Pew Research Centre in Washington DC and New Jersey say Facebook and Twitter are stifling people's opinions (stock image shown).
The California-based company is planning an app to locate parked cars. It will track when a user exits a car and then direct them back later on (stock image shown).
A large number of methane vents (shown) have been found off the US East Coast. Suggests such leakage is far more widespread in the Atlantic than thought.
California researchers say the discovery could save thousands of bottle of wind from being 'eaten' by bacteria.
Researchers at Michigan State University developed the ‘transparent luminescent solar concentrator’ (pictured) which could also be used to charge mobile phones.
Astrophysicists at the University of California have simulated star formation (shown). They show that stars born of the same cloud have similar 'fingerprints'.
MIT researchers found that working for a robot made people more productive - and happier.
Researchers from Cambridge University say they have found the earliest evidence of muscles. The evidence comes in the form of a fossil (shown) found in Newfoundland, Canada.
Engineers in Cupertino, California are busy patenting futuristic features for iPhones, including buttons that could appear on-demand beneath large screens (illustrated).
From butterflies in Ecuador to skates in California, many animals have skin that is up to 90 per cent transparent, enabling them to be almost invisible to predators. These extraordinary images were taken by a host of photographers from around the globe. Fleishmann's glass frog is pictured left, a see-though fish and jellyfish are shown centre, and a big skate, right.
Apple shares have hit their lowest value since January since January, with one brokerage warning of a stock downgrade.
The California-based company is currently testing a feature on its mobile app that allows users to search through old posts from friends using keywords about people or events.
A German engineer has revealed how to make 3D-printed 'bump keys' (shown). These devices can be used to break into popular pin tumbler design locks.
Astronomers in Washington DC have found the first evidence for water clouds beyond the solar system, on a 'failed star' (artist's impression shown) 7.3 light-years from Earth.
Indian engineer Chirag Jagtiani, who created the band said that a wearer only needs to press the SOS button twice to send a text message with their location to chosen contacts.
Nasa scientists are baffled by the discovery of Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), which was once used in applications such as dry cleaning and as a fire-extinguishing agent.
Experts at the University of Edinburgh have managed to create cells which, once injected into the body, can grow into a fully functioning organ.
This is the first direct evidence that life can be found deep below the Antarctic ice sheet. The discovery was made by scientists at Montana State University and the University of Tennessee.
Paleontologists from the University of Pennsylvania came upon the fossils of 24 young Psittacosaurus and one older individual in the Lujiatun beds of the Yixian Formation in northeastern China.
Researchers led by the University of Barcelona used EEG headsets (pictured) to record electrical activity in the brain, and convert the words ‘hola’ and ‘ciao’ into binary.
The video of a tornado (stock image pictured right) was filmed from inside a car in Bashkiria, Russia last year, but was released this week. Reports that it shows the eye of the storm have yet to be confirmed. It shows the weather changing from calm to chaos in under a minute, starting with raindrops rolling down the car’s windscreen, with the sky a foreboding grey and descending into large pieces of wood being flung through the air (pictured top and bottom left) and the car’s previously clean glass covered in pieces of debris.
Evidence suggests the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined by 1.5 points since 1998.
Boston researchers found that those who drank coffee were protected against gum disease - and say antioxidants could be behind the find.
San Francisco-based Twitch allows gamers to broadcast live streams of themselves playing.
According to a video by the American Chemical Society in Washington DC people should not feel guilty about going to the loo in the ocean (stock image shown).
A Dutch firm based in Delft has invented a simple clamp that fits to a bike’s handlebars and holds a windproof umbrella firmly in place to protect a rider from wind and rain.
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University have developed a smart heads-up-display for cars (shown). It can alert drivers to other cars on the road in poor weather conditions.
BAE Systems in Essex has revealed a new technology for aircraft. It contains sensors that act like human skin to detect damage and 'feel' the world around them while in the air.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe from the University of Buckingham has claimed life on Earth is of extraterrestrial origin, based on finding of plankton on the ISS this week.
The almost complete set of pristine fossils were uncovered in May when Marty McEwen and his grandson Ethan Beasley were digging at the family business in Ellis County, Texas.
Those with the condition have too many synapses - places where where neurons connect and communicate - in their brains, say Columbia University researchers.
The document (main image) was discovered in the University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library and has been identified as one of the world’s earliest surviving Christian charms. The ‘remarkable’ papyrus contains some of the earliest documented references to The Last Supper (illustrated with a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, pictured inset) and sheds new light on early Christian practices, experts say.
Dusseldorf-based Thomas Herbrich attached a burning cigarette to a tripod in front of a black background. He set up a high-speed flash and fired shots at 1/10,000 frames a second.
The 920 horsepower (680 kW) Quant e-Sportlimousine, developed by Lictenstein-based NanoFlowcell, uses an electrolyte flow cell power system to power four electric motors.
Arizona researchers say they have unraveled the genetic code of the rapeseed plant, and say it could lead to better tasting vegetables.
The images show the 5.5inch version of the handset being held for the first time, revealing just how large it is.
James Hobson, a Californian engineer who is known as The Hacksmith, has demonstrated his DIY exoskeleton by lifting a 171.5lbs (78kg) breeze block barbell (pictured).
Covering 175 acres, Apple's Cupertino-based 'Campus 2' headquarters will be a mile in circumference when it's complete in 2016.
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Language experts from Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, did not detect any cognitive benefit in people who can speak two languages.
The genuine 1950s spacesuit will be up for auction in Berlin on September 13 and is believed to have been worn by space dogs Belka and Strelka during training sessions.
The Detroit car manufacturer is using technology made by Seeing Machines, a Canberra-based company who also specialises in driver fatigue technology.
Dave MacLean of the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Nova Scotia has made an interactive space image map (shown). The map compiles images from tweets sent by astronauts.
The problem of algae in lakes has got so bad, Nasa is using a special sensor on the International Space Station to monitor it from orbit.
Applications include prototyping for robotics research, household robots, and self-driving cars, the Cornell team say.
This is according to an experiment designed by Science for the Masses, a Washington-based group who raised $4,000 (£2,400) from the public to fund the study.
Enough to make anyone book an appointment to see a dentist, these scanning electron microscope (SEM) images show extreme close ups of plaque (pictured), incisors and decay.
Texas-based internet cartographer and computer scientist John Matherly used software to ‘ping’ global web devices to build a map (pictured) demonstrating the internet's global reach.
The California-based company joins a list of groups pressing for the US government to allow commercial use of small drones long associated with military and government surveillance.
Russian space officials claim that the plankton may have been carried to the ISS via air currents blown from Earth, rather than attaching to the modules during launch in Kazakhstan.
Figures sketched into red rock cliffs in Canyonlands National Park were drawn 1,000 years more recently than previously thought.
Texan professor Donald Olson believes has calculated the time the sunrise in Claude Monet's Impressions, Sunrise appeared.
Astronomers at the European Space Agency's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, plan on sending a robot laboratory to Comet 67P's surface (pictured) in November.
The warning was made by Amsterdam-based Nell Watson, who said robots could decide that the greatest compassion to humans as a race is to get rid of everyone to end suffering.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), headquartered in Geneva, is releasing videos that predict what weather reports will be like in 2050.
Scientists at the University of Auckland evaluated different cheeses - mozzarella, cheddar, colby, Edam, Emmental, Gruyere, and provolone – to see how well they melted.
Caroline Graham becomes the first non-American to get into the passenger seat - in fact, they're all passenger seats - of Google's first driverless car... and she settles down to do some work.
Each fish uses a built in camera to identify dirt particles, and then swims over to suck them up.
While EE 'continues to shine', rivals Three, Vodafone and 02 are closing the gap, with both 02 and Vodafone improving 'substantially' in the last year.
Scientists at Yale University have created the world's coldest molecules. Based in Connecticut the experiment chilled them to almost absolute zero using lasers (shown).
The movement of heat in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans is thought to explain why the rapid rate of climate change has ground almost to a halt, according to a study by Washington University.
Scientists looking at the crater in Circleville, Utah, claim it was caused by a geologic condition called 'collapsible soils' where refilling of a lake caused the soil to give way.
Nasa says the airship contest will have a $4m prize fund, and will be launched next year.
Professor Daniel Hirst, from the Aix-Marseille University in France, claims there is a strong link between the areas plundered by the Vikings in the 9th Century, and the regions that use uptalk.
The discovery, made at the Cova de la Barriada site on Spain’s Costa Blanca, suggests Palaeolithic humans may have been more discerning eaters than previously believed.
Researchers from the University of Sheffield say a combination of a large iceberg and unusual weather conditions led to the sinking of the Titanic.
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Called Achires (short for Actively Coordinated High-speed Image-processing Running Experiment System), the Japanese robot uses a high speed camera to enable it to lean forward and run without falling over.
A game creator warned attendees of a virtual reality conference in Seattle that someone with a heart condition could be scared to death while playing video games wearing a VR headset.
Michigan researchers say there is a 'systemic lack of security' in system used by 40 states.
The company says it has built detailed digital streets of California's roads (3D map shown). And they say they are good enough to test their cars in virtual reality.
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.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have classified an ancient worm (illustration shown). Known as Hallucigenia sparsa the creature had legs, spikes, a head and tail.
Towering a staggering 384 feet tall, the Space Launch System (SLS) will provide 9.2 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and weigh 6.5 million pounds.
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 from Lund University in Sweden say the sun influences the climate regardless of weather it is extremely cold or more moderate.
Seattle-based firms created the Denny bike, which features rectangular handlebars that can be removed and used as a lock as well as an electric motor and built-in lights.
The images, named 'Soldiers’ Inventories' and taken by London-based photographer Thom Atkinson, show the brutality of war as well as more everyday items used during battle.
EXCLUSIVE: The Oldham-physicist (pictured) told MailOnline that no one knows when the next major asteroid impact (mock-up, pictured top right) will be - and he claims we're not taking the threat seriously enough. In fact, the Earth had a ‘near-miss’ only a few months ago. ‘We didn’t see it,’ said the 46-year-old. ‘We saw it on the way out, but if it had just been a bit further over it would have probably wiped us out. These things happen.’ It’s not just asteroids we should worry about, climate change and artificial intelligence (illustrated, bottom right) are also at the top of the astrophysicist's list.
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.
Tablets with a screen of 7 inches (17.8cm) or larger are increasingly shipping with phone capabilities to Asia, according to a report by Massachusetts-based IDC Worldwide.
Researchers from University College London believe life’s Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) had a leaky membrane that harnessed energy, causing it to grow.
Ryman, owned by Theo Paphitis, charges £50 for a scan which creates a three-dimensional 'map' of the person that the printer reads then recreates. But unlike a selfie, it takes ten hours.
A book, titled 'Kennewick Man:'The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton', provides the most thorough analysis of the find made in Washington's Columbia River.
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.
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.
Seven years after Al Gore's warning, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the Arctic ice cap is far from vanishing and has expanded for the second year in succession.
Nasa researchers in California say the sun has gone through a period of increased solar activity. More than six solar flares were spotted by the Solar Dynamics Observatory last week.
Chinese researchers developed the system based on Russian cold war technology fir firing torpedos faster.
Tap water in some parts of Maine contains high levels of fluoride that could be lowering resident's IQ, it has been claimed.
Scientist at Auckland University have designed a virtual baby that learns. Called BabyX (shown) the computer programme can recognise words and images.
German researchers have created Google Glass software that can analyse facial expression - and even tell you how old somebody is.
A Nasa researcher has offered his explanation for the mystery glow (shown) near Kamchatka, saying an energised bubble could have been the origin.
The toilet seat was discovered at Vindolanda fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland and could have been used by soldiers stationed nearby.
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego believe they have solved the puzzle of the 'sailing stones' at Racetrack Player after seeing the phenomenon happen first-hand.
The six-foot-long artefact was discovered inside a house in Bradwell-on-Sea.
![Project Wing is a Google[x] project that is developing a delivery system that uses self-flying vehicles. As part of our research, we built a vehicle and traveled to Queensland, Australia for some test flights. There, we successfully delivered a first aid kit, candy bars, dog treats, and water to a couple of Australian farmers (and one very happy pup). We?re only just beginning to develop the technology to make a safe delivery system possible, but we think that there?s tremendous potential to transport goods more quickly, safely and efficiently.](http://web.archive.org/web/20140906225812im_/http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/28/1409266254590_Puff_Image_galleryImage_Project_Wing_is_a_Google_.JPG)
Called Project Wing, the drones are being developed at Google X, the company's secret research lab, which is also developing its self-driving car and Glass wearable computer.
Polish researchers found the vessel contains 14% alcohol, and say it could be a type of gin.
The world has now reached 'Earth Overshoot Day', the point in the year when humans have exhausted supplies, according to the think tank Global Witness.
The 2014 Jeep Cherokee (pictured) and 2015 Cadillac Escalade were the most vulnerable cars studied by Chris Valasek, and Missouri-based Charlie Miller.
The device, dubbed Kazbrella (pictured) was created by 61-year-old aeronautical engineer Jenan Kazim from Hertfordshire after his mother-in-law complained about dripping umbrellas.
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.
A competition by Nasa and 3D-printing company MakerBot to design a base for future astronauts on Mars has been won by a designer in Michigan (winning entry shown).
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 using the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii say they have found evidence for the universe's first-generation of stars in a second-generation star (illustration shown)
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.
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