Finnish-based Nokia Networks has completed its first live testing of High Speed Cell FACH technology, that handles the data sent by apps more efficiently on 3G networks.

Swiss firm Lubera have created an apple that fizzes in your mouth. Called Paradis Sparkling it releases juices that are like a CO2 fizzy drink (shown) when it is bitten into.

Dozens of writings from the 14th century have been found in Russia. The birch-bark documents were found in the ancient city of Novgorod. One such document is shown, drawn by a young boy.

The Carnegie Mellon project would allow anyone to experience the lunar surface by donning an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

Google is leading a $542m investment in Magic Leap, which claims to have invented a realistic version of virtual and augmented reality, dubbed 'cinematic reality'.

Those with broad features, like Wayne Rooney (pictured), are more likely to have bad tempers and display bouts of verbal or physical aggression, according to researchers at the University of Leeds.

A new way of incubating embryos inside a champagne cork-like device instead of expensive incubators could halve the cost of IVF, doctors claim.

Scientists from the University of Southampton have used nano-indentation, a materials testing technique, on feathers for the first time.

Houston researchers uncovered fossil evidence of an animal attacked by a stegosaur, and say it reveals exceptional attack skills.

Texas researchers found that our learning ability was boosted when people allow their minds to rest and reflect on things they've learned.

Researchers from the MedUni Vienna examined bones (pictured) from a 2nd century gladiator cemetery in Turkey. The cemetery was uncovered in 1933 on the site of the Roman city of Ephesos.

The space agency recently teamed up with Elon Musk's firm to record thermal footage of the Falcon 9 rocket as its first stage pulled away after launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Research from Carnegie Mellon University claims feminine-looking faces are more trustworthy, while furrowed brows arouse suspicion, and round faces look incompetent.

DR EBEN ALEXANDER, a neurological scientist, recalls how he met his biological sister in heaven after having spent his entire life being sceptical of patients who spoke of spiritual experiences.

Australian researchers moved particles one fifth of a millimetre in diameter a distance of up to 20 centimetres, around 100 times further than previous experiments.

New images of Comet Siding Spring passing Mars have been released. They include one taken by a Nasa orbiter operated by scientists in California. The comet passed 87,000 miles from the red planet.

X-37B, which landed in California on Friday, may have been spying on countries such as Iran and North Korea, says Steven Aftergood, a secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists.

The Washington-based firm is expected to launch a smartwatch (patent files pictured) in time for Christmas. Pricing details have not been announced and Microsoft has not commented on the claims.

September was the hottest ever recorded, US forecasters have revealed - and they say 2014 is on course be be the hottest year in history. 

Canadian researchers believe the previously unknown mechanism could be implicated in why we choose the foods we do.

A paleontologist from South Australia has discovered evidence of sex in the fossil of an ancient fish, who engaged in the act using L-shaped genitals.

Babies born in the summer, such as Roy Keane, are more likely to suffer from mood swings when they grow up while those born in winter are less likely to be irritable adults, scientists claim.

Scientists at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, Italy,believe that gestures form part of a communication system deeply ingrained in humans.

Official testing revealed the Japanese firm's Xperia Z3 (pictured) lasts, on average, for 48 hours. This included using the device for approximately five hours over a 24-hour period.

Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a way to 'melt' excess white fat by adding the adenosine receptor A2A to the cells, which make them burn energy from food.

The machine launches in Japan today and will be on British shelves in months, with a water tank whose contents are projected into the room in a fine mist.

Ford's European Research and Innovation Centre in Aachen, Germany is working on a car seat that can detect heart attacks using six embedded sensors (shown).

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland have spotted ice in an image of Mercury for the first time. Pictured is ice on a crater floor on the planet.

Engineers at the University of Washington say a full-size version of their fusion reactor (pictured) would be cheaper than a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output.

A New Jersey student has designed a smart deodorant application device. Called the ClickStick, it can remind you to freshen up if you ever forget to use deodorant.

Scientists at Ohio University made a computer model (pictured) to show how air moved through the nasal passages of Cretaceous pachycephalosaurids or 'pachy' dinosaurs.

Scientists at New Zealand-based research institute Scion claim that if more insects are attracted to street lights they will be thrown off their usual path and into the jaws of predators.

Tornadoes in the UnitedStates are increasingly coming in swarms rather than as isolatedtwisters, according to a study by U.S. government meteorologists in Oklahoma.

Esa, headquartered in Paris, has confirmed Rosetta will attempt to land on a comet on 12 November with a daring descent of its Philae probe (artist's impression shown).

Researchers in Singapore say their ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged up to 70 per cent in only two minutes.

Worshippers visiting Saint-Eustache cathedral in Paris can send a text message to influence a laser light show (pictured) illuminating the place of worship.

Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh researchers studied typing. They found that the way a person types can reveal how they are feeling (stock image shown).

Archaeologists from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research unearthed the ancient left arm bones - a humerus, radius and ulna - at Tourville-la-Rivière near Paris.

Scientists at University College London claim that when a skill, such as playing the piano, is learned later in life myelin must be made in order to retain the skill.

University of California scientists say a giant detector could be made by combining smartphones around the world. These could then alert scientists when cosmic rays (illustrated) hit our planet.

Hackers have posted a huge trove of pictures after collecting them from a third-party Snapchat client app for years. Many appear to be child pornography, as half of users are 13 to 17.

Paleontologists from the University of Edinburgh say the fearsome creatures roamed the ocean feasting on marine animals such as turtles and even dinosaurs.

A Paris-based inventor has designed a portable bike helmet (shown). Called Plixi the £79 ($126) product folds to a third of its size. It is available in black or while and will come in two sizes.

Four heavily populated areas in San Francisco are in danger of an imminent major earthquake, claim scientists just months after Napa suffered major damage (pictured).

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine say they have identified epigenetic protein changes caused by binge drinking.

The rare footage was captured by a group of underwater divers from Mexico known as Panga MX. A humpback whale only shuts off half its brain while sleeping so it doesn't forget to breathe.

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Nasa's Maven spacecraft has given scientists their first glimpse of the upper atmosphere of the red planet, which has baffled them for decades.

Researchers at Microsoft's Redmond base in Washington have developed a writing tool for Android smart watches (shown), called the Analog Keyboard Project.

The US' largest flight attendant union is suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in a bid to have the ban on the use of phones and tablets during take-off and landing, brought back.

Around 34% of UK children aged five to 15 now own their own tablet, up from 19% last year, according to a recent report by London-based regulator, Ofcom.

Created by Oregon-based OnTheGo Platforms, the Brainwave app uses a technology known as Ari that can recognise hand movements using an Android's front-facing camera (shown).

San Francisco-based Lee Ann Allman created the app after discussing sexual assault with students. Apple pulled the app from its store this week, but did not reveal the exact reasons why.

Paypal (app shown in image) is gearing up to acquire San Francisco-based start-up Square, which lets people make payments over their phone by linking their debit and credit cards.

Researchers found in a study of 150,000 Swedish men that those who were obese aged 18 grow up to earn 16% less than their peers of a normal weight. 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced 'Safety Check' (shown) while in Japan. If you are in a zone affected by a natural disaster it asks if you're okay.

Scientists from the University of Illinois used a driving simulator to explore the impact of mobile phone calls and passengers talking in cars (stock image) on road safety.

Both mobile devices (pictured) will run the new version of the Californian firm's mobile operating system - Android 5.0, which has been confirmed to have the name Lollipop.

More than 6,000 Britons have persuaded Google to remove links in relation to the 'right to be forgotten' legislation introduced by the European Court of Justice.

The bronze box, filled mostly with documents from long-gone Wall Street businessmen, was to have been opened in 1974 but it lay forgotten in Manhattan.

The $200 Anura was created by a New York photographer, and its four rotors fold up into its own body when not in use.

Harvard researchers have pinpointed the 'caffeine gene' that controls our reaction.

Psychological scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut say that shared experiences (illustrated) are intensified even people have only just met.

San Antonia-based Xenex has designed a robot called Little Moe (pictured) that can kill viruses. It works by using pulses of xenon light to disinfect surfaces in five minutes.

A graduate from Loughborough University created the 15-litre tank, which is packed with technology enabling fish, plants and bacteria 'to work together to create a balanced ecosystem'.

Texas researchers say the impact of rising CO2 levels on plant growth has been underestimated by 16 per cent.

The new report from the Pew Research Center asked 1,464 experts what the advent of gigabit-speed internet connections will mean.

The discovery was made using images from the Houston-based Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which suggest a number of lunar rock deposits were less than 100 million years old.

Massachusetts researchers analysed women who had both a child and a dog - and found showing pictures of them elicited the same response in the brain.

Researchers say the astonishing rise of the iPad has meant is has now overtaken household names such as McDonalds and Disney to become the number one brand among American 6-12 year olds.

The Met Office's Space Weather Operations Centre will open next week in Exeter after years of preparation and millions of pounds of investment.

The girl may have been rejected by her community because of her pale complexion, according to the archaeologists who found her remains in Albenga on the Ligurian Riviera, Italy.

The cold waters of Earth's deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005, according to a new Nasa study.

Scientists from Northeast Ohio Medical University Stony Brook University in New York came up with the theory that gives anthracobunidae (bones pictured) new descendants.

The Zoological Society of London and Google are testing television white space, which could be used to transmit data over long distances from remote areas where rare animals roam (pictured).

This malicious software allows thieves to visit cash machines in Latin America, Europe and Asia, infect them and then visit them later at night to empty the contents.

Scientists from Oxford University and in Belgium studied the virus's genetic history and claim it originated in Kinshasa, now the capital of the Democractic Republic of Congo.

Papers from Nasa HQ in Washington DC have revealed how the agency intends to capture an asteroid (shown) by the end of this decade and send astronauts to one by the 2020s.

The 'moon', which is in fact an asteroid, takes about a year to orbit the sun and is close enough to the planet to look like its satellite. It was discovered accidentally by the Chilean University of Antofagasta.

Writer Micheal Paulkovich has claimed that there is little evidence for a person known as Jesus (illustrated) existing. He is thought is to have lived from about 7BC to 33AD in the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists at Emory University in Georgia, Atlanta will train 20 people for 100 hours each so they can learn the art of knapping, used to craft Stone Age-style hand axes (shown).

Scientists at the Mercator Research Group, Germany have created a computer model to make artificial networks of nerve cells in the hippocampus region of the brain (model pictured).

The members of the young engineers club at Joseph Whitaker School in Nottinghamshire beat the existing record of 287mph (460km/h) set in March by The Heathland School in Middlesex.

The 'Spider in Da House' app, created by the University of Gloucestershire and Society of Biology, provides information and photos on the 12 most common house spiders.

Colorado scientists were stunned to find thousands of different microbes in samples they analysed - the majority being new to science.

David Etkin, Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management at York University, Canada, examined the link between belief and risk-taking behaviour.

The University of Bristol and the Natural History Museum in London analysed sauropod skulls found in the Morrison Formation, which extends throughout Western United States.

The programme is based on the results of a large scientific study where experts have followed 100 cats fitted GPS trackers and cameras in three urban environments near Brighton.

Scientists at Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in San Diego, California found that orcas can engage in cross-species 'vocal learning' by mimicking dolphin sounds.

Astronomer David Weintraub at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee has written a book predicting which faiths will struggle to accept aliens, if evidence of extraterrestrial life is found.

Oxford Said Business School surveyed 2,000 people born since 1982. Many said they would donate to tackle poverty and unemployment, while others wanted to help their local communities.

The bedroom of the future (illustrated) was designed by London-based Betta Living. Its predictions include carpets that switch to beams, floating beds and personal stylists built into mirrors.

Rosetta's Philae lander will attempt to touch down on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (shown) on 12 November, with confirmation due at 1700 BST.

Prices for the drives, made by London-based Secure Drives, start at £938 and they can be controlled using a token (left) or an app. The Autothysis128s is pictured right.

A photo shows a card being placed inside a gap (pictured) between the Korean firm's phone's screen, and its metal case. It is unclear if it affects a small batch, or is a wider issue.

Researchers led by Cornell University in New York have found evidence for the origins of life in a star-forming region of interstellar space called Sagittarius B2 (shown).

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The discovery was made by Connecticut University after finding unusual stone tools at a site in Armenia between two ancient layers of lava dated to a period between 325,000 and 350,000 years ago.

Wristify (concept illustrated) was developed by Massachusetts-based embr labs and is a finalist in Intel's Make It Wearable competition. It glows blue when cooling the skin, and orange while warming it.

Soylent founder Robert Rhinehart (pictured) has admitted the firm changed its formula in a bid to cut out the unwanted side effect after users complained of digestive issues.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will study how people use Twitter to develop new communication tools.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh say men smile when drinking (stock image shown). In a study they found smiles were more contagious in groups of only-men.

Called Atlas, the service is designed to take on Google's lucrative AdWords service. It will allow Facebook to sell ads that 'follow' users across the web and mobile devices.

Scientists at Sydney University have created computer models which show how early continents could have placed major stress on the surrounding plates.

A survey of 2,000 UK respondents has revealed online trends in the nation. More than a third of those surveyed said they had Facebook 'friends' that they had never met in person (stock image).

A growing number of scientists from around the world are trying to prove that evolutionary leaps, such as human's large brains, are the result of the environment alternating between wet and dry.

The trove of Roman coins (pictured) was found by Laurence Egerton in East Devon. Dubbed Seaton Down Hoard. it was declared treasure at a Devon Coroner's Inquest earlier this month.

A long-term study of more than 200 wild female baboons from the plains of southern Kenya found that the most sociable females lived two to three years longer.

The mice, launched as part of a project by Houston-based Nasa, lack a gene that normal mice have, called Muscle Ring Finger 1 (MuRF-1), which causes muscles to deteriorate.

Around 70 sites containing the remains of mastodons and glytodonts - a type of armadillo - have so far been identified near the tiny Bolivian village of Padilla after wind and rain erosion left them exposed.

This is according to Cadell Last, a researcher at the Global Brain Institute in Brussels. In less than four decades, Mr Last claims we will live longer, have kids in old age and rely on robots.