Mathematicians at New York University placed candy of different sizes in flows of slow moving water and watched how they dissolved. They calculated it takes around 1,000 licks to dissolve 1cm of lollipop.

NEW Virginia-based Darpa wants to use Memex to uncover human trafficking rings by searching for patterns in the number of online sex adverts being posted from certain regions, for example.

Women are expected to benefit the most because almost a third do not have a licence, compared with just one in seven men. Others likely to gain include the disabled, the elderly and even children.

The car giant are reported to be unveiling the glasses in April at the Shanghai motor show. They will use the latest technological advances to allow drivers to see 'through' their car as if it was invisible.

Using computer models, researchers at Michigan State University have found that the human race's survival has been helped by the fact people are risk-averse when it comes to relationships.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina believe that people who we love to hate can motivate us and encourage us to see things from another person's perspective.

Yahoo Labs in Barcelona say their software can spot the best holiday snap, and even analyse your selfies - and even found men smile less than women in snaps..

A mystery product that's been jointly created by Google and toy company Mattel will be unveiled next Friday morning in New York City.

A UK team has designed a robot butler called Care-O-Bot 3 (shown). The machine has a flexible arm that can pick up drinks. It also has a tray - which doubles as a face - to rest objects on.

Geophysicists at Columbia University found that underwater volcanoes erupt in cycles that change the Earth's orbit and can contribute more to climate change than previously thought.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University found that men who liked to eat chilli peppers had personalities that meant they may be driven by macho cultural associations.

The Hubble telescope took a string of images of the event which show the three satellites - Europa, Callisto and Io - in action 601 million miles (968 million km) from Earth.

Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York estimated energy use based on the Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment database.

Last month, the Californian firm brought in Tony Fadell to lead the Glass project. An unnamed source said that Mr Fadell 'is a product guy and he's not going to release something until it's perfect.'

The technology, by Colorado State University, uses a Bluetooth earpiece to detect sound and send electrical impulses to an retainer that wearers press their tongue against to 'hear.'

San Francisco firm Twitter reported its revenue nearly doubled in the final three months of last year, but user growth fell short of analyst expectations with just four million new users.

The US patent relates to 'a primary portable device [that] can access a vehicle by transmitting an activation message including a vehicle access credential to the vehicle.'

A number of vets in the US have noticed a trend for people who are reluctant to vaccinate their pets (stock image) from diseases such as canine distemper.

Northwestern researchers found the 'Superagers' have distinctly different looking brains than those of normal older people, and the same memory capacity as a younger person.

Experts from the University of Sheffield created family trees for 10,000 people. They found that up to 18% of the variation in a trait was influenced by genes, the rest was affected by the environment.

In an experiment using puppets, psychologists at the University of Missouri found that infants are able to comprehend what constitutes bullying, friendship and what it means to be a bystander.

Reverend Christopher Benek, an associate Pastor of Providence at the Presbyterian Church in Florida, believes religions could help steer AI in the right moral direction.

Palaeontologists discovered teeth from the new species of monkey in a river bank in Santa Rosa in Peru and have named it Perupithecus ucayaliensis.

Dick Costolo (pictured) said that he is embarrassed by the way Twitter handles abuse and that it must take stronger action in the future.

Sources told 9to5Mac that the Californian tech giant's service ill be integrated into music libraries and users will be able to search, stream and add songs to their iTunes account.

Researchers at Warwick University also found that women are still doing the most around the home, no matter how many hours they work or how much they are paid.

Psychologists at the University of Iowa taught pigeons to sort pictures into 16 basic categories and say this is similar to the way parents teach children to learn new words.

It is thought exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb has a long-lasting effect on finger length. Those with a longer ring finger are likely to have been exposed to more testosterone.

Facebook has started collecting information about other websites users visits and can now track activity, including online searches and some of the details users share with retailers.

The images from French blog nowhereelse.fr show a handset with the same curved sides and antenna 'bars' as Apple's flagship phone.

We tend to judge someone with high eyebrows and prominent cheekbones, such as Angelina Jolie, to be more honest, Philadelphia researchers found.

A car with cameras on it (shown) was spotted in San Francisco. The California DMV confirmed the car was registered to Apple, and some have suggests it might have been taking images.

Scientists from the University of Rochester in New York have found a new protein that could be used to develop new treatments for cancer patients.

The apps, which include the popular Durak card game, have been installed more than 15 million times. They were discovered by Prague-based software firm, Avast.

Scientists from the University of Bristol surveyed 1,254 pet rabbit owners in England to find that 60 per cent lived on their own, limiting their opportunity to be sociable (shown by a stock image).

Amsterdam design studio, Moore, has created a book jacket that uses an integrated camera and facial recognition system to scan the reader's face and recognise prejudice.

Nasa engineers are planning to build a new nuclear powered spacecraft called Copernicus (pictured) that could half the time it takes to travel to Mars.

Students from Cornell University and the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada, created C-fu, which is designed to help feed the world's growing population.

Geneticists at the University at Buffalo in New York compared the DNA of Neanderthals (pictured), Denisovans, chimpanzees and modern humans to look for common faults.

Accounting software firm MYOB has released the Future of Business in Australia 2040 report, which suggests technology changes in the workplace will be driven by rising energy costs and transport.

The Flush Toilet Finder app (pictured) was built by Jake Ruston from South Yorkshire. It uses a global database of 100,000 public toilets, and a phone's GPS location, to find the nearest public conveniences.

Match.com's Singles of America study polled more than 5,600 single people of all ages, ethnicities and incomes and found that emoji users were more likely to report having sex at least monthly.

The Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot walked across uneven floors, using thermal imaging a hose to extinguish a small fire in a series of experiments in Virginia.

Geneticists at Pennsylvania State University found Neanderthals may also have enjoyed plants that modern humans find too bitter while they would have struggled with starch.

Linguists at the University of Miami examined 3,700 languages and found those with complex tones like Cantonese are found in humid climates where vocal cords are more flexible.

The Tinder Plus service has already been tested in the UK, but is now about to launch in the US - with $6.99 the likely cost.

KeyMe is a New York-based digital locksmith. The app (pictured lets homeowners scan and store their keys in the cloud, share scans with family and friends, and order postal duplicates.

Canadian psychiatrists scanned the brains of 20 patients and 20 healthy controls and found those with the condition showed a third more inflammation.

Australian scientists say our galaxy could be teeming with habitable worlds. If each star has an average of two planets, there will be 200 billion that could host life (illustration shown).

The presumed divide, according to Iowa State University, is caused by a tendency to focus on a few extreme differences rather than the many small similarities.

Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have attempted to solve how long strands of RNA formed - and the answer could life in hydrothermal vents (image shown).

New York-based e3light has devised a 'smart' £49.99 bed light. Called mylight, it uses motion detectors and is placed under a bed. When someone steps on the ground it turns on (shown).

The $18.5 billion budget request also includes funding for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, according to Nasa's administrator, Charles Bolden (pictured) speaking in Florida.

Doctors investigating a cluster of children in Colorado suffering from paralysis in their limbs have identified a virus called enterovirus D68 as a possible culprit.

The trait likely evolved millions of years ago, before human ancestors split from those of modern birds, according to a study by the University of Padova in Italy.

New York researchers found cocaine addicts continue their destructive drug habit because their brain circuits responsible for predicting emotional loss are impaired.

Scientists at the Thompson Rivers University in Canada studied prehistoric stone spear points for distinctive fractures that show they used tools to help them hurl their weapons.

Journalist David Rose was labelled a 'climate change denier' after writing an article about scientists covering up data in a 'climategate' scandal.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is spinning off the company's prized stake in China's Alibaba Group Holding in a move that will let Yahoo avoid paying billions in future taxes.

The Dutch painter created arguably his most famous work - The Starry Night (shown) - in 1889, and now an expert has claimed the famous 'swirls' may have come from other drawings of galaxies.

Apple unveiled plans Monday to pump $2 billion over the coming decade into a data center "global command" facility in the southwest state of Arizona. The pro...

Computer security experts have detected new spyware called XAgent that is thought to have been created by a group of Russian hackers called Operation Pawn Storm to attack iPhone devices.

Thinking women want sex provides men with an evolutionary advantage when it comes to reproduction, according to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Scientists from the University of Leicester analysed Y chromosomes from 5,000 men from 127 populations across Asia and found 11 DNA sequences that date from 1300BC to 1100AD.

A patent submitted by Google (illustrations shown) hints that the Californian tech giant is working on a hands-free dashboard, enabling future drivers to keep their eyes on the road.

Berkeley researchers have linked positive emotions with lower levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, which are proteins that signal the immune system to work harder.

Researchers from Kings College London took MRI brain scans of 12 violent psychopathic and compared them to other violent criminals and non-offenders, finding they had abnormalities in key areas.

A team of German engineers have brought us a step closer to building a teleporter, dubbed 'Scotty', to send objects over distances in an instant - just like Star Trek's transporter.

A new Arizona study has found that as global warming melts the island's great ice caps, the crust is 'rebounding' and rising.

The London-based World Photo Organisation has launched the award to recognise the breadth and reach of images taken on phones (an example is shown).

The infection triggered primary amebic meningoencephalitis (stock image pictured), which killed the four-year-old in Louisiana. The findings were published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Geneticists at the University of Chicago compared the genes from the wombs of animals including cats, dogs, chickens, lizards and frogs to determine when and how live births first began.

Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg and Leeds University in the UK say that the long-term trend points to severe warming of the climate, as predicted by the models.

The breakthrough was achieved by researchers at Sanford-Burnham in Orlando after they coaxed human stem cells to become dermal papilla cells - a type of cell which is vital to follicle formation.

Nasa scientists in California have revealed images showing 'recent' flowing water on the surface of Vesta (shown). Gulleys were seen down the walls of a crater on the large asteroid.

San Francisco scientists found people who carry the gene have larger volumes in a front part of the brain involved in planning and decision-making.

The Snooperscope device, designed by a start-up company in London, is intended to be used as a tool for wildlife watchers, fishermen and hunters, who want to better see targets in the dark.

The star was stretched into a noodle-shape before being devoured by the black hole. The remarkable discovery was made using a tiny telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas.

Physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have calculated that intense gamma ray bursts from supernova may have prevented complex life evolving in 90 per cent of galaxies in the universe.

The free game (pictured), from Argentinian developer Etermax, is available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. As a player answers questions, they are rewarded with characters.

An international team of experts led by Oxford University studied 14 juvenile Northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) migrating from Salzburg in Austria to Orbetello in Italy (pictured).

Australian researchers say analysing it could help to determine the amount of heavy elements created by the massive explosions.

Scientists at Cambridge University say the readings provide a tantalising glimpse into how Earth's magnetic core will behave over billions of years as it continues to freeze.

There are at least ten beavers (one is shown) thriving along a 12mile (19km) stretch of the River Otter near Exeter, where they will now stay, following a ruling.

The pplkpr app (pictured) was created by Brooklyn-based Kyle McDonald and Lauren McCarthy. It syncs with a heart rate monitor to track emotions and warns users about people who cause them stress.

Facebook has revealed it now has 1.39 billion users, with 890 million people using the site every day as it announced for the seventh quarter in a row it beat profit and revenue forecasts.

The Californian firm filed the patent (pictured) in September 2008 but it was only awarded this week. It details a range of 'modular accessories' for phones and tablets.

Two separate groups in Austria and Canada have developed 'mind readers' that combine the use of vibrating pads and an electrode cap to measure a patient's brain signals.

Scientists at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California have revealed remarkable footage of giant Humboldt squid (still image from video shown).

The tool is being created by the California-based Mutual UFO Network which receives thousands of 'alien' reports. Sources allegedly include military personnel and former intelligence officers.

The fibres less than a width of a hair could lead to devices for treatment of conditions such as Parkinson's.

The claims were made by researchers from the University of Pittsburg, who added that women with large quantities of such fats in target areas were shown to produce more intelligent children.

Scottish Scientists have identified a biological clock that could help predict a person's lifespan.

Google has been confirmed as being part of a new billion dollar investment in SpaceX,

The Tesla P85D was unveiled in Los Angeles in October. The electric car offers two acceleration options, Sport and Insane, and in Insane mode, the car goes 0 to 60 in around three seconds.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln ice drillers made the discovery after drilling a small hole through the Ross Ice Shelf, which covers an area the size of France.

Called Turnipschool, the device was demonstrated at a hacking convention in Washington. It was inspired by a covert stick called Cottonmouth-I recently leaked in NSA documents.

A Russian company that designs life-saving systems for high-altitude flights has unveiled a unique ejector seat that uses a pole to fling pilots free of a plane.

A European spacecraft was used to lower the orbit of the ISS (shown) yesterday. The ATV was used to 'slow' the station and move it down by 2.5km - but Nasa had to spin the station first.

Scientists from the University of Missouri are studying the genetic make-up of cats after it was revealed their DNA may contain crucial information about what causes certain diseases.

According to Meera Inglis, a researcher at the University of Sheffield, Ebola is the greatest threat to primates. A third of the world's gorillas and chimpanzees have died from Ebola since 1990.

The symbolic clock (shown) is intended to show how close we are to disaster. Today the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the minute hand forward by two minutes.

Two Texas-based storm chasers are to release a book detailing how severe weather forms. Their amazing images of lightning (shown) and more will be overlayed with diagrams.

An experiment by University of California, Berkeley, psychologists found that powerful people often claimed left over treats at the expensive of others, and ate them with their mouths open.

A scientist from Michigan Tech University studied faster than light effects. Dr Robert Nemiroff said a laser swept across the moon (telescope laser shown) will appear to break light-speed.

Scientists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands demonstrated that pigs (stock image) empathise with others they share a pen so that the stress and happiness of the animals is contagious.

The software was shown off in Seattle, and will also run on everything from mobile phones to the firm's Xbox One games console,

The flash, located 5.5 billion light-years from Earth and lasting a thousandth of a second, was spotted for the first time by astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

A photographer has captured amazing images of methane bubbles in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The pictures show a frozen lake with the icy 'circles' trapped (shown).

The leaked photos (pictured next to an iPad) were published on Chinese Apple fan site iFanr and they claim to show the rear casing and logo on a 12-inch MacBook Air.

University of Glasgow scientists found a way to slow the speed of light. In an experiment one photon was beaten in a race (illustration shown), suggest light is even more complex than we thought.

Construction workers in Qijiang city discovered the 49 feet long fossil while digging. It lived 160 million years ago and had an unusually long neck that could have led to legends of dragons, say scientists.

A portal big enough to swallow a spaceship could have been created by dark matter, according to mathematical models by the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy.

Scientists at Purdue University in Louisiana have presented a new asteroid theory. They say asteroids may have formed during the collision of protoplanets (illustration shown), not before.

Designers have produced a $400 (£265) robotic waterbath (pictured) that can be controlled by a mobile phone to produce slow cooked foods that will be ready when you get home.

The Visijax Commuter Jacket contains flashing LEDs on the sleeves which are activated when a cyclist raises their arm and will go on sale at UK shop Halfords this month.

The paper was led by Professor David Legates from University of Delaware. This chart shows the study's observations (green) compared to IPCC predictions (red).

Palaeontologists at Indiana University and University of Nebraska-Lincoln examined regional differences in the shapes of individual vertebral bones in snakes, lizards, alligators and mice.

A geobiologist from Old Dominion University in Virginia has revealed pictures that show structures on Mars (shown) similar to ones on Earth that were formed by microbes.

The Japan Meteorological Association says 2014 is the hottest year on record (data shown) - 0.27°C above the average from 1981 to 2010, and 0.63°C above the 20th Century average.

A UK-wide survey has also revealed that one in 14 drivers have had a near miss and have swerved or braked suddenly to avoid a hazard because they were distracted by a sat-nav (stock image).

A new study by archaeologists at University College London and the University of California has lent support to theories that human hunters killed off the giant ice age mammals.

The interactive watch (pictured), designed by India-based app Pipes, is modelled on official images released by Apple, and lets people see how their messages, emails and homescreen will look.

Dubbed 'Scape', the technology can help unlock the secrets of brain activity by monitoring neurons as they fire in real-time (pictured), according to the Columbia University Medical Center.

QualityTime, from California-based ZeroDesktop, works in the background to monitor phone and app usage. It tracks how many times a screen is unlocked and the most popular apps.

London-based company The Eco Experts has revealed the countries best-equipped to cope with climate change on a map (shown), with places like Norway and the UK scoring highly.

Biologists at the University of York studied chimps in the Budongo Forest in Uganda and discovered that males had unique drumming styles that they tended to use when moving around the forest.

Data storage firm, Seagate, based in Cupertino, California, said we are facing a a data capacity deficit of more than six zettabytes - nearly twice all the data produced in 2013.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is still riding a massive 'tsunami wave' that first began in February, Iowa researchers have revealed.

A Californian password management company has revealed the 25 most popular and insecure passwords of 2014, including 'easily guessable' passwords such as 'football'.

Scientist Regine Gries from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia let bedbugs bite her 180,000 times as her colleagues hunted for a cocktail of pheromones to trap the insects.

Nasa scientists in California are testing a concept Mars helicopter (shown). The small device would be launched to the red planet with another rover and would scout locations ahead.

University of Surrey scientists showed that respondents who closed their eyes correctly remembered information 71 per cent of the time, more than 20 points higher than those who did not.