Scientists at the University of Tokyo say that after only a few days of practice, the brain implants allowed blind rodents to navigate a maze just as well as sighted rats.

In the first pilot of its kind in the UK, the system (pictured) is able to warn drivers of obstacles, give ambulances priority at lights and allow drivers to adjust their speed to pass through lights.

An engineer from Instagram allegedly contacted Caleb Benn, a Californian student behind 'Uploader for Instagram', claiming the app violated the company's terms of service.

Dr Dejan Stojkovic from the University of Buffalo claims that interactions between particles emitted by a black hole could reveal information about what lies within.

Starting new evidence from Russia suggests mammoths may have gone extinct because of a crippling bone disease that left hem unable to fend off predators (image of bone shown).

A paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology argues single words bear traces of syntax showing that they must be descended from an older, syntax-laden system.

The European Space Agency's latest mission plans to visit an asteroid - and keep watch as a Nasa craft crashes into it.

Researchers based at different institutions in Tokyo placed rats in a special cage with pictures of rats in pain (shown) and with neutral expressions on the walls, to see how they reacted.

Camoji is one of the first apps to take advantage of Facebook's decision to open up Messenger, revealed at its recent f8 conference in San Francisco.

Known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), just 10 have been discovered - and German researchers say they all contain a strange patttern.

Called Project Spartan, the new web browser is part of Windows 10, the firm's next generation operating system set for release this summer.

Experts from Stockholm University studied Ephedra foeminea (pictured) in Greece and Croatia where they found that it released sweet droplets to coincide with the full moon.

China is creating a 'great wall of sand' in the South China Sea (one island pictured), the US Navy has claimed. The latest huge land mass is 1.5 square miles (four square kilometres) in size.

The California giant's patent says that the robot personality could replicate the robot's owner, 'a deceased loved one,' or 'a celebrity.'

Contrary to popular belief rain makes us miserable (stock image), a study from Westminster University found the weather plays a minor role in our emotions, by comparing data between 1991 and 2008.

The comments were made by Michael Abrash, chief scientist from Facebook-owned Oculus at the social network's annual F8 conference in San Francisco.

Jay-Z and Beyonce have signed up a host of stars to launch a streaming service to rival Spotify - and one with no free subscriptions so they earn more money from the artist-owned platform.

The study, led by Southampton University, claims a catastrophic condition called 'marine photic zone euxinia' is being created by the release of CO2 from fossil fuels.

Engineers at the University of Sheffield found that the cotton products absorb chemicals commonly used on toilet paper and detergent, which glow under UV light.

Scientists have revealed a sophisticated new dating
technique shows that Little Foot, an important fossil of an early human forerunner unearthed in the 1990s in South Africa, is roughly 3.7 million years old.

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine spending five days in a cockpit with barely enough room to stretch your arms. That's what two Swiss pilots (Piccard shown) are currently doing on board the Solar Impulse plane.

A student from McGill University in Canada published new time estimate. It examines the hypothetical scenario of falling through Earth (stock images hown).

Fan site AppleInsider has spotted nine listings on the Californian firm's job site that relate to batteries. These include an iOS battery life software engineer and power systems engineer.

The blackpoll warbler routinely undertakes flights of up to 1,700 miles across open ocean, flying without stopping to rest, eat or drink across the Atlantic, scientists have confirmed.

A California-based hacker, who is named only as Patrick, created a program which worked by luring in two men who 'like' one of his fake profiles and matching them to each other instead.

The One-touch-911 app (pictured) was developed by researchers at Boston-based MIT and lets users call the police, fire service, report a car crash or seek medical help using buttons on the phone's screen.

Male mice sing like birds to serenade prospective mates, Duke researchers have found - however, their musical sounds are too high pitched for humans to hear.

In the 19th century, it was believed that these foul odors carried diseases, so the New York City Metropolitan Board of Health created the map to highlight the areas affected.

A group of experts based in Los Angeles, California, are making a film about the wonders of mycelium - a vast underground network of fungus - that absorbs carbon dioxide and holds soil together.

Data from two European space telescope missions - Planck and Herschel - has identified some of the oldest and rarest clusters of galaxies in the distant cosmos (shown as black dots in image).

The mystery new product line will be revealed at the company's California, Design Studio on April 30 at 8 p.m. PT, according to a tweet earlier today by Tesla founder Elon Musk.

Biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee measured the plumage colour of male and female birds from 977 different species and their findings challenge Charles Darwin's famous theory.

Scientists at the German Nation Metrology Institute (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany, are measuring the atoms in a sphere (pictured) so they can redefine the kilogram.

Michigan researchers say reclusive giant pandas may not be quite as solitary as we thought, and often spent several weeks in the same area of forest to be near each other.

Students from the University of Surrey found thousands of bacteria colonies living on their money - but most of it was harmless.

Inventors in Edmonton Canada have came up with the Illume ArcLighter, (pictured) which creates a 'super high-intensity' electrical arc between two ceramic electrodes (pictured).

Two engineering students from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, made the device which uses low-frequency sound - like 'the thump-thump bass in hip-hop' - to extinguish flames.

Geologists at Syracuse University in New York poured lava heated to 1,100 degrees C onto a sheet of ice. The lava turns the ice straight into steam and becomes a seething mass of molten rock.

Archaeologists (left) searching for monarch King Stephen (right), who died in 1154, hope to follow in the footsteps of those who found Richard III (insert). His remains lie beneath a field in Kent.

Scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands found English speakers take five time longer to describe an odour than they can a colour while some languages have specific words.

Russia reportedly has plans for a supersonic transporter plane that could carry tanks and troops to anywhere in the world in a matter of hours.

There has been a 54 per cent increase in pedestrians being hit by electric or hybrid cars, with the visually impaired being worst affected, according to a report from the Guide Dogs charity.

Professor Kevin Schürer from the University of Leicester, found the link between the former Plantagenet monarch and English actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Scientists at Virginia University compared biological brothers, one of whom had been adopted into a new family, to discover that their IQs differed. A stock image is shown.

The US-made tractor is guided by GPS and steers with an accuracy over the ground of less than an inch, meaning there is no overlapping and it can be driven in perfectly straight lines.

The circles (pictured) are located in the Flaming Mountain in Turpan, north west China and cover more than two-and-a-half square miles (6.6 square km).

Japanese researchers found Jupiter's aurora sometimes mysteriously explodes - causing dazzling brightening  up because of a process having nothing to do with the Sun.

Archaeologists at the University of Cambridge found delicate cut marks made with stone tools on the remains of up to 31 Neolithic farmers and children buried in Scaloria cave in Puglia, Italy.

The Redmond giant hopes the new cheaper tablet will appeal to students and budget-conscious families - and lure buyers away from Apple.

Scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, believe that with more research, the droplets (illustrated) could replace current methods used to disinfect food.

Google, based in Mountain View, California, has been awarded a patent (pictured) that suggests Glass could be used to identify music and provide steps to follow in real-time.

Amazon is launching a services marketplace to match people with businesses offering anything from home improvement to piano lessons.

Påhoj (pictured) was made by Swedish designer Lycke von Schantz. It has a 'lightweight chassis' and is 3.2ft (1 metre) tall. The product will launch on Kickstarter next week but prices are not yet known.

Scientists at the University of Tübingen, Germany, grew Rhodopseudomonas palustris (pictured) and Geobacter sulfurreducens on the iron oxide mineral magnetite.

The skateboard-meets rollerskates, has two 10-inch wheels, which riders position their feet inside, and is being sold by Hammacher Schlemmer, which is based in Niles, Illinois.

Californian researchers have developed a liquid that enables night vision (shown in eyes in the image). The solution combines Chlorin e6 (Ce6) with insulin and saline.

Thanks to a new 'life hack' video from YouTube user Rumble Viral, a pepper is opened up in a matter of seconds without disrupting any of the pips.

The 10th century brew - known as Bald's eyesalve - killed 90 per cent of bacteria on scraps of MRSA-infected skin, scientists from the University of Nottingham claim.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore came to the conclusion after studying more than 80 research articles on the topic.

Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre have had to postpone the imminent relaunch of their refitted 'Big Bang'
because of a short-circuit in the wiring of one of the vital magnets.

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Washington and in Australia, compared drug policies at schools in Washington state and Victoria, Australia.

Having a treadmill desk could improve your attention span, and even your memory, Canadian researchers have found.

The research was carried out by scientists at the University of Utah. They crushed minerals between diamonds to mimic Earth's core (illustrated) and found there must be a new layer 930 miles underground.

The patent (illustrated) was filed by the Californian firm in 2011 and awarded this month. It details a three-sensor camera that uses mirrors to split incoming light and manage more pixels.

Engineers from the University of Calabria said the gel (pictured) can be made in different consistencies from a sticky version for salad dressings to a solid variation that can be spread like margarine.

The tolcapone drug changes the chemical balance in the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for personality, according to the University of California, Berkeley.

Scientist at the University of Toronto discovered a fossil of the new species of predatory arthropod in Marble Canyon in the Canadian Rockies. They have named it Yawunik kootenayi (illustrated).

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Kristina Vanoosthuyze studies shaving habits of 80 men every day using high-speed cameras and scanning electron micrscopy (hairs pictured) at Gillette, Reading).

Scientists at the Columbia Business School in New York have revealed that so-called 'bolstering' range offers work particularly well when negotiating a better salary.

Experts from Georgetown University found neurons respond differently to real words compared to nonsense words and this proves the brain is 'holistically tuned' to recognise complete words.

Two sellers - known only as Courvoisier and ThinkingForward - are using dark web marketplaces to offer account details, according to reports from New York-based Motherboard.

Nasa will fly its new heat shield from Hawaii in June. Tomorrow it will perform a spin-test of the new technology. It is known as the low density supersonic decelerator (LDSD), pictured.

51-year-old retired Navy captain Scott Kelly says 'a military, tactical-style thing' that can hold a tool pouch is his key item as he prepares to blast off with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko.

New footage shows how a drone can herd around 120 sheep from Carlow, Ireland, through a narrow gateway within minutes. It was captured by Paul Brennan, who specialises in aerial photography.

Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology also found that neurotic people may eat too much high-caloric food to deal with their negative emotions.

The anthropological team from the University of Jaen said the Egyptian woman (skull pictured) was an aristocrat from Elephantine, the country's southernmost town.

Asteroid 2014 YB35 will pass 2.8 million miles from Earth tomorrow (artist's impression shown). It was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona.

As part of the recent moves around comet 67P undertaken by mission control in Darmstadt, Rosetta swooped to within about 8.6 miles (14 km) of the comet's surface on Saturday.

The Bios Urn (pictured) has been developed by Barcelona-based estudimoline. Relatives can choose which tree they want including pine, gingko, maple, oak and ash.

Scientists at Princeton University, New Jersey studied an ancient meteorite (shown) and found a quasicrystal with a structure that it was not thought could form in nature.

Bones from Irish elk (a skull is shown), which stood seven foot (two metres) tall, have been found in a number of locations across western Siberia and have now been re-analysed.

Pictures snapped at a Elimbah home - north of Brisbane - shows the rainbow lorikeets feasting on mince (pictured). Bird expert Darryl Jones said he had never seen this happen before.

Professor Sophie Scott from University College London says people are 30 times more likely to laugh if they are with others because it activates part of the brain linked with copying behaviour.

The £35 Fire TV Stick (pictured) is a smaller, more affordable version of the Washington-based firm's Fire TV box that launched in the UK in October.

Israeli researchers say the technique  could be used to attack classified military networks, the payment networks that process credit card transactions and industrial control systems for power plants.

The tool (pictured) works in a similar way to the California-based site's 'tailored notifications' and involves scanning tweets for abusive or offensive words, threats or signs of harassment.

Experts led by Dr Rachel Grant of Anglia Ruskin University used data gathered from a series of motion-triggered cameras located in the Yanachaga National Park in Peru.

Drunk Mode was built by Indiana-based developers from Launch LLC. If an attempt is made to contact the blocked number a 'Drunk Quiz' (pictured) appears which ask the user to solve an equation.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge believe paleolithic hunters used plant toxins to make their weapons more deadly up to 30,000 years ago. They have developed a new test for poisonous residues.

Scientists at the US Geological Survey in Virginia are investigating ways of flushing out the valuable minerals, including gold, silver and rare elements such as palladium and vanadium.

Scientists in Brazil studied why certain species of mushroom glow (pictured). They found the ability helps them attract insects at night. These creatures will then move their fungal spores elsewhere.

The Red Lady's remains (burial site shown) were found in the El Mirón Cave in Spain. Radiocarbon dating suggests she was buried 18,700 years ago when she was between 35 and 40 years old.

Experts from hosting firm WP engine analysed 10 million passwords to reveal the top 50 most-used passwords as well as the top 10 colours, superheroes and verbs used for login details.

Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have created a van that uses 'Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors' to map the roads in fine detail.

Researchers from Purdue developed a way of turning 'packing peanuts' (pictured) into carbon by baking them at high temperatures and flattening them into microsheets and nanoparticles.

A team of scientists that included York University fired an ultra-intense laser on fluids. The plasma in the fluid produced a sound wave. The process is thought to be taking place on stars (sun pictured).

The study, led by researchers from the University of California, challenges the idea that decisions people make are rooted in a pre-existing moral framework.

A team of astronomers, led by Cambridge University, say these planets could be part of a more extensive solar system containing worlds like our own like 4.3 light years away.

Photographer Hernando Rivera Cervantes captured these images of bolts of lightning inside the ash cloud thrown out by the erupting Colima Volcano in Mexico (pictured).

The California-based search engine is allowing users to play the classic Pac-Man game through virtual streets anywhere in the world using their desktop site or mobile app.

A Nasa robot ship
will pluck a large boulder off an asteroid and sling it around the moon, becoming a destination to prepare for future human missions to Mars, the U.S. space agency has said.

Detroit firm Delphi Automotive is set to attempt what it bills as the 'longest automated drive ever attempted in North America', driving from San Francisco to New York.

EXCLUSIVE: The US physicist explained to MailOnline that scientists have learned more about the brain in the last 15 years than we have in the rest of human history.