The image shows a distant giant cluster of 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. Massive stars are seen feeding regions of dust and gas in the image.
Apple launches its first smartwatch today - but anyone turning up to buy one in the high street will be disappointed. For although the Apple Watch (pictured) is officially going on sale, none of its stores will have them in stock. Instead, consumers willing to shell out between £299 to £9,500 - for the gold edition - have to pre-order the watches online and wait for their arrival until June.
The revolutionary's body, which is on display in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, is immersed in a bath of glycerol and potassium acetate for 30 days every two years.
The alien hunting team, dubbed Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (Nexss), will include scientists from 10 universities including Stanford, the University of California and Yale.
The US Geological Survey found man-made quakes jolted once stable regions in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas.
The San Francisco-based social network said its 'Highlights' service will initially be rolled out to English speaking users who use Twitter on an Android phone.
Researchers at Duke University in North Carolina based their study on 1,000 years of temperature records and compared it to the most severe emissions scenarios by the IPCC.
Researchers used data from Lisbon, Portugal, and found that even with only one passenger per ride and no complementary public transport, the number of cars still dropped by 77 per cent.
A new report revealed 41 million tonnes of e-waste was discarded globally in 2014 and Africa has become the dumping ground for it. The Agbogbloshie landfill in Ghana (pictured) is just one where mountains of broken television sets, microwaves, computers and refrigerators from countries all over the world are dumped. Transporting broken appliances known as e-waste is illegal but brokers fraudulently label the products as reusable so they can be shipped, campaigners have said. Young men at the site brave toxic fumes - and the poisonous elements that leak from some appliances - to sift through the waste in the hopes of finding something worth selling (bottom right). Others burn components (inset) to recover scrap metal which can be sold at market.
Researchers from Huddersfield University discovered that by heating DNA until its bonds break, subtle differences between two strains can be identified.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse found the body temperature of some class participants reached 40°C/105°F putting them at risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
A Russian scientist says the distant ancestor of humans had tentacles (illustration of various organisms shown in image). They lived more than 540 million years ago and used them for food.
The pilot scheme will begin in May for Amazon Prime customers in Munich who drive Audis. A DHL delivery driver will receive a temporary digital access code, which is revoked when the boot is shut.
Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzho, China, tried to modify the gene responsible for -thalassaemia, a potentially deadly blood disorder, using a method known as CRISPR.
Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, made the outlandish comments in a keynote speech at the Disclosure Canada Tour at the University of Calgary.
An astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, claims that Paul the Apostle may have experienced a vision on the road to Damascus in 30AD (illustrated in the painting by Michelangelo on the left) that was caused by a meteor similar to the one over Chelyabinsk in Russia (top right). He argues that the sound of the explosion could have been interpreted as a divine voice and the UV radiation from the blast (bottom right) could have caused temporary blindness called photokeratitis. Many argue that without Paul's influence, Christianity would be a very different religion.
The billionaire Microsoft founder and philanthropist has defended meat eating, saying some of the environmental impacts of raising livestock have been overstated.
Dr Simon Cotton, a senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Birmingham said DNP is highly toxic. Eloise Parry (pictured), died after DNP pills made her 'burn up from the inside'.
Researchers from Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Germany tested three different techniques for boosting the speed of so-called spermbots - robots powered by bovine sperm.
Scientists in The Netherlands were using the Lofar radio telescope. They found it could measure changes in lightning caused by cosmic rays (illustrated).
Tao Wei and Yulong Zhang from security firm FireEye are expected to discuss their findings at the RSA conference in San Francisco. Flaw has been tested and confirmed on the Samsung Galaxy S5.
The free app (pictured) is currently in testing and is only available on Android devices in the US. It is expected to roll out further to other regions and devices if the testing is successful.
The event will be held at Tesla's Hawthorne, California, Design Studio on April 30. Earlier this year, Elon Musk (pictured) said the batteries should go into production in the summer.
Fossils found in the Cave of Llenes in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in Catalonia, Spain, suggest Neanderthals shared the cave with several other predators 200,000 years ago.
Neuroscientists from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet asked participants to wear a virtual reality headset looking down towards their body. Instead of seeing their body, they were shown either the body of a mannequin or an empty space where their body should have been (illustrated). A researcher then stroked the participant's body with a large paintbrush while simultaneously moving another paintbrush in the corresponding location in the empty space below the cameras, as if he were touching an 'invisible body'.
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Photographers in the UK captured the Lyrid meteor shower in the sky last night. It occurs every year around 16 to 25 April, so you can still catch some meteors tonight and tomorrow. The strength of the showers vary from year to year and most years there are no more than 20 meteors an hour. But in 1982 Americans counted nearly 100 an hour and in 1803 it was as high as 700 an hour. Top right and left are meteors above Porthcurno beach in Cornwall, while bottom right is the view at the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, in the early hours of this morning.
Bath and Yale University scientists have revealed clean hydrogen power. Using a new material they say hydrogen can be generated from water, possibly for use in cars, like in the image above.
Using neuroimaging, scientists in Barcelona discovered that the brains of heavy cannabis had a less active hippocampus - and area that stores memories - compared with the general population.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that armour plates that were thought to belong to different species of stegosaurus actually belong to members of the opposite sex.
Cardiff University scientists have found a protein within the airways which they believe triggers all asthma attacks. And remarkably, a drug already exists which they think could deactivate it.
EXCLUSIVE: The London-based retailer's mobile network officially launches in May and will offer free roaming in 22 countries, including the US, Australia and across Europe.
Vets are urging pet owners to check their animals for the pests, as a poll found half did not realise ticks can transmit deadly diseases to humans. The move is part of The Big Tick Project.
Researchers at Boston University have calculated that not using fire would have left Neanderthals with less energy and restricted how far they could have hunted or foraged.
The California-based company is selling the basic phone service for $20 a month and will only charge customers for the amount of cellular data that they use each month, instead of a flat rate.
Romanian company MB Telecom has revealed the Roboscan 2M Aeria. It uses a cone of radiation to sweep across planes (shown left) and look inside to find contraband like weapons (top right). The device is accurate enough to find a filament in a light bulb. But the radiation it emits is not safe for passengers yet. The company notes that, while passengers and their luggage are thoroughly inspected at airports (bottom right), there is no such inspection process for jets arriving at small private airports with low security - but this device fills that 'gap'.
A study from the University of Connecticut found that after having an orgasm, people are more likely to share important information due to a surge in a hormone called oxytocin.
Whether or not a person has body odour that is attractive to mosquitoes is strongly influenced by genetics, scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found.
California-based writer Steward Brand says warnings that the world is facing a new mass extinction event may lead to a fatalistic attitude that will do more harm than good.
Scientists at Newcastle University and Trinity College Dublin say bees seem to prefer nectar laced with neonicotinoid chemicals - a type of pesticide commonly used on crops.
Scientists at Grand Valley State University in Michigan studied elite runners and found that women tend to prioritise other aspects of their lives like academic studies.
Scientists in Belgium say all sweet potatoes (stock image shown) contain 'foreign DNA'. Agrobacterium bacteria in the crop exchanges genes between species.
The Bike Washing Machine (main picture) is being developed by designers at the Dalian Nationalities University in China. The front wheel has been replaced with a drum where clothes can be placed with water and detergent. When the user pedals, it drives the drum (shown in the inset) but also produce electricity that can be stored for later use.
Writing in the BMJ, Professor David Healy, a psychiatrist in Bangor, North Wales, claims the idea that SSRIs can correct a chemical imbalance and treat depression is a fallacy.
The White House said Tuesday that Nye was making the trip today to the Florida Everglades with the president at its request to shoot a video of Obama. On Twitter, Nye said they would '#ActonClimate.'
London-based keyboard app firm SwiftKey analysed more than one billion sets of emoji data to learn how 16 different languages and regions use emoji.
The 1:2000 scale New London Model (pictured) covers 33 square miles (85 sq km) from Old Oak Common in the west to Royal Docks in the east. It goes on display at the NLA Galleries from tomorrow.
The hangover treatment was found written in Greek on documents uncovered at the ancient Egyptian town of Oxyrhunchus. It was one of 24 new medical recipes translated from the documents.
Biologists at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, studied skin healing using an electron microscope and hope it may help develop new treatments to speed up recovery times.
The test is being offered by Silicon Valley-based start up, Color Genomics, and works by asking a patient to send back a sample of saliva to a central lab to check for gene mutations.
Dr Mairi Levitt from Lancaster University argues that the genes that make up who we are, and the environments in which we are raised cannot be considered independently of each other.
Tidal's $19.99-a-month app (pictured) launched in New York on 30 March. Following the launch the app jumped to 4th place on the iOS music chart but now ranks at 51 in Music and 872 overall.
Norway has said it will be the first country in the world to stop broadcasting FM radio due to the rise in popularity of digital and internet radio services.
University of Bristol scientists studied the Apex chert microfossils. They found they were just stacks of clay minerals that looked like fossils (cross section shown in image).
Reading scientists say chewing gum helps you forget a song. In a study people were less likely to think about it and a third less likely to 'hear' it when chewing (stock image shown).
University of Illinois scientists have created the first 3D simulation of merging black holes (shown). It shows what happens when two supermassive black holes collide. Material swirls around the objects in a quasar and jets fire out from the poles. It comes after two black holes were found to be seven years from merging.
Italian designers have unveiled a concept for a bio-printed synthetic eye that could enhance the retina sharper or introduce vintage or black and white filter effects to images.
Users of the Californian site can report indirect threats, abusive accounts will be locked until a phone number is added, and an algorithm will automatically remove abuse before you even see it.
Estimates suggest around 1,000 iOS apps are vulnerable to a flaw in connectivity software from AFNetworking. This includes the California-based Uber and Microsoft's OneDrive.
The California-based company has rolled out a feature which exports all of your searches to Google Drive in a ZIP archive, with files divided by year and quarter.
Researchers studied 40 million posts made by 1.7 million web users. From this they could identify so-called Future-Banned Users (FBUs) - and Never-Banned Users (NBUs).
Ethan Czahor, the former Governor of Florida aide, has launched 'Clear' (pictured) which removes any posts that might cause you problems with your current or future employer.
There were 72 unprovoked shark attacks around the world last year and the number of worldwide shark attacks has grown at a steady pace since 1900.
Anthropologists at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, found spores from several species of mushrooms in the dental plaque of the Red Lady of El Mirón found in a cave in Cantabria, Spain.
It's rumoured that the Californian tech giant could use 7000 series aluminium in its next iPhone, to make the handset stronger and less bendable after reports it could be bent out of shape (shown).
London based in-flight entertainment company Flow IFE has developed a prototype device that shows passengers a virtual horizon that mimics the movement of the aircraft.
Nasa describes the telescope as a 'powerful time machine with infrared vision that will peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.' The James Webb telescope (inset) should further the search for alien life by opening a new window on planets outside the solar system that might have water, says the Houston-based agency. JWST's main mirror will be 21ft (6.5 metres) in diameter, three times as large as Hubble's.
The Turin Shroud, one of Christianity's most celebrated and hotly-debated relics, went on display to the public on Sunday. It will hang in the cathedral in Turin until June 24 this year.
Plant geneticists at Pennsylvania State University discovered that a single gene called TcSAD1 is responsible for the melting point of cocoa butter.
Research by Oxford University doctors has found that tiny babies are more sensitive to pain than adults, which overturns the medical consensus that newborns have a high pain threshold.
Oxford scientists say a Mercury-like body struck the young Earth (artist's illustration shown). The Mars-sized object would have been the heat source for our planet's core and magnetic field.
The seven-car Maglev train (pictured), hit 375mph (603 km/h) and travelled for almost 11 seconds at speeds above 373mph (600km/h) near Mount Fuji.
Chemical and sensory analysis of 170-year-old champagnes previously recovered from the Baltic Sea reveals hints of 19th-century wine making practices, according to a study.
Tokyo researchers have proposed a laser system to attach to the ISS. It would be used to shoot down pieces of debris in Earth orbit, akin to the Death Star (shown), with a range of 62 miles (100km).
Researchers led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found people who live in countries built on centuries of migration from a wide range of other countries are more emotionally expressive.
Hiroshi Udea, from Japan, patented the 'extender stick' in 1983 while he was an engineer at camera firm Minolta. He came up with the idea while on holiday in Europe with his wife.
Biologists have captured the first ever photographs of Bouvier's red colobus monkeys in the Democratic Republic of Congo - an animal last seen in the 1970s and was thought to have died out.
The garment (pictured) is part of an animal-skin display at National Museum of Denmark. Known as a 'naatsit', it was worn during the 19th century in Greenland and other arctic regions. It is decorated using glass beads and different coloured strips of fur. Depending on the weather, the naatsit was often the only garment worn. Other items include a diaper made from reindeer skin and fur and a pair of pantyhose are also on display.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina ran a 10-Hertz current through electrodes attached to the scalp of 20 volunteers to stimulate the brain's natural alpha wave oscillations.
The intentionally mysterious app called None*was created by a developer in Athens, Greece, and features no images, music, animations, sound effects or hints to help users.
The app (pictured) is free for iOS and Android. Photos and videos taken on the app disappear into a hidden album after three seconds and only appear at midday the next day.
Jonathan Leblanc, the California-based company's top developer, said that the devices could be injectable too and include mini computers. Stock image pictured.
The data, released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, revealed that last month the world experienced an average temperature of 56.4°F (13.6°C).
Chocolate milk, so long as it was a low fat brand, was the 'gold standard for a recovery beverage', scientists from Cornell University said after developing a formula for the best product.
An ancient bronze buckle (pictured) and whistle have been found by Colorado University researchers in a 1,000-year-old house at the 'Rising Whale' site in Cape Espenberg, Alaska.
Studies by Colombia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found differences in brain regions responsible for language, memory, spatial skills and reasoning.
Volcano Calbuco, in southern Chile, erupted at around 6pm local time, as 1,500 residents from the town of Ensenada were forced to flee their homes while a 12 mile exclusion zone was established. The eruption forced a cloud of ash and dust into the atmosphere which was visible from up to 100 miles away in neighbouring Argentina. Residents from near the volcano described people crying in the streets in the aftermath of the explosion, which is the first there since 1972
The medieval manuscript was written and illustrated in France between 1300 and 1340 and shows a character from the Biblical tale of Samson, which bears a striking resemblance to Yoda.
The information collected is used to boost sales and grow the UK's e-book market, suppliers say. But a privacy campaign group called it 'alarming' to think that while you're reading your device is reading you.
This is according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia who is objecting to proposals by iRobot to release a radio wave-guided lawnmower.
The Endure Survival Penwas designed by Californian Nolan Brundige. As well as a flare launcher, the titanium pen contains a metal rod that can be used to make sparks.
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, say the issue of incorporating insects into western diets is more complex than previously thought.
The Hainan Yingge Wing in Ground Effect Craft Manufacturing Company in Hainan, China, tested two prototype sea planes off the coast of Haikou that have been developed in a CNY5 billion project.
EXCLUSIVE: Leeds-based Direct Line is running a competition called #EverydayFix. They asked groups to design products to deal with common problems, such as locking the door (shown).
The California firm's retail chief Angela Ahrendts said customers won't be able to buy an Apple Watch (pictured) in store 'through May' due to 'high global interest combined with initial supply.'
General Motors unveiled their concept car at an event in Shanghai. The Chevrolet-FNR has 'dragonfly' swing doors and 'crystal laser headlights'. It is self-driving, electric, and the front chairs can swivel round. And using iris recognition software you can start using only your eyes.
Italian Alex Bellini will live atop an iceberg in Greenland starting next year. He will live inside a contained ball (artist's illustration shown), with no means to escape for 12 months.
The research team, led by Professor Shree Nayar at Columbia Engineering, said the camera works by not only measuring light but also convert that light into electric power.
Data from 941,300 male and female Sleep Cycle app users revealed 6:09am is the earliest wake up time, in South Africa. While two thirds of countries spend the least amount of time in bed on Sundays.
The robot, called BB-8 stars in the eagerly anticipated film Star Wars: The Force Awakens and took to the stage at Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, California.
A supplement added to water has been found to boost reproduction in frogs, fish and other creatures - and London researchers say it might work for humans too.
San Diego researchers say the results show just how modern lifestyles and diets have changed us - and that the bacteria they found could be potentially beneficial to modern society.
Researchers at the University of Madrid have found marks found on the fossils of two Neanderthal adults and a child unearthed in the French region of Poitou-Charentes.
Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History in New York studied 99 footprints found in Ileret, northwest Kenya, that are the oldest human tracks to be discovered in the world.
The map, created by Yale University, reveals public opinion in all 50 states, 435 districts and 3,000 counties. Overall, just over 60 per cent of Americans believe global warming is taking place and nearly half blame humans for the change. But within the US, opinions on global warming vary wildly. People in California, for instance, are far more worried about the warming planet than those in parts of the central US. Pictured are the percentages of people who are worried about climate change, divided by different counties. The warmer colours represent a higher percentage of people concerned with the impact of warming.
Known as 'Ogle-2014-BLG-0124Lb', the gas giant is thought to be half the mass of Jupiter. It was detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Ogle Warsaw Telescope in Chile.
Researchers from University College London found that when the fundraiser was an attractive woman, a large donation increased other men's gifts by an average of £38 ($56).
Research by scientists at The University of Manchester has revealed that the colour of light has a major impact on how our body clock measures the time of day.
The company will look after an project to launch spacecraft and probes into orbit from of a huge carrier aircraft with a wingspan of 385ft (117 metres). The aircraft is currently being built in California.
Scientist at the University of Southern California hope their discovery for the Nox3 gene, could help save a carrier's hearing by forewarning them of the dangers, allowing them to take protective measures.
The California search giant claims the latest update to its Android handsets can understand handwriting in 82 languages in 20 distinct scripts.
Canna Companion, based in Washington, and Canna-Pet are among the firms that uses hemp from the Cannabis sativa strain in its capsules and biscuits for both cats and dogs (stock image pictured).
GRAPHIC WARNING: The eight inch, 250-year-old sex toy was found in an ancient toilet.
Google partnered with Catlin Seaview Survey and Adrian Shine from the Loch Ness and Morar Project to capture the Street View images. The site has launched to mark the 81st anniversary of the 'Surgeon's Photograph' (pictured left) - an image of the mythical monster - and it lets people virtually explore above (pictured top right) and beneath the water (pictured bottom right) of the waterway to the southwest of Inverness.
Scientists at the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Climate and Environment in Norway have found vast reservoirs of abiotic methane, formed by chemical reactions in the crust beneath the seafloor.
The mouse, designed by Taiwan-based ThermalTake, has a built-in honeycomb grill to let the skin breathe and a rugged coating so sweaty gamers can continue to the accessory.
Goldmach Sachs surveyed 1,000 people, and found 11% are 'very likely' to buy the $349 smart timepiece this year. It's report says the launch could cause major problems for traditional watch firms.
Scientists at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University set up a camera system to reveal exactly how wine's aroma changes as ethanol vapour escapes from different shaped glasses.
Charity worker Kenton Lee, from Nampa, Idaho, came up with the expandable shoe (pictured) after seeing orphans in Nairobi, Kenya, running barefoot and wearing shoes that were far too small for them.
Researchers have found that bird species are continuing to drop in Fukushima (shown after the disaster in 2011). The barn swallow, for example, dropped from hundreds to dozens.
Rocket Lab, which is based in Los Angeles and has a launch site in New Zealand, will charge $5m per launch for its electric electron rocket.
The coin (pictured), which bears images of a horse's head and Carthaginian goddess, was discovered hidden in silt at the village of Saltford, which lies between Bristol and Bath on the River Avon.
Called NailO, the prototype trackpad developed by MIT researchers is similar to the stick-on nails sometimes used as a fashion accessory.
Researchers from the Japanese universities of Azabu, Jichi and Tokyo have found that eye contact between humans and dogs sparks a surge in affection-creating hormones.
German scientists using Esa's Rosetta spacecraft (illustrated top right) captured stunning images of a dust jet erupting from comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko (right). The jet may have been caused by a wave of heat reaching ice trapped under the surface, causing an explosion of material. But it is unusual, because so far such activity has only been spotted on the day-side of the comet (bottom left) - not the night, like this.
The Californian firm announced the tool (pictured) on its Google+ page. It works with all Android phones but the user has to have the latest Google app for the tool to work.
Naval historian Rear Admiral C.H. Layman has used survivors' stories, together with never before published letters of the ship's captain to reveal the terrifying cocktail created on the high seas.
Interstate 80 and State Route 101 run alongside the bay, where high rates of wading birds and water birds are killed in a 'death ring', according to a map created by the University of California, Davis.
Human bones found at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, have been found to be covered in bite marks and cuts made by people living there 14,700 years ago.
A historian at George Washington University says a series of disasters between 1225BC and 1177BC led to downfall of ancient societies around the Mediterranean and the Near East.
British physicist Stephen Hawking has sung Monty Python's Galaxy Song (clip from the video shown). The song is being released digitally and on vinyl for Record Store Day 2015.
A University of Cologne scientist led research proposing a new theory. It suggests temperatures at Earth's equator were -40°C (-40°F) 2.4 billion years ago (artist's illustration shown).
Historian Mary Ann Lund from the University of Leicester believes that Richard III used good tailoring and carefully made armour to disguise his scoliosis through his lifetime.
Scientists at the European Science Foundation estimate there is a 5-10% probability of a large volcanic eruption by the the end of the century and the world needs to be more prepared.
Psychologists at Stanford University have studied the impact that racial stereotypes can have on how teachers perceive students who have misbehaved in the past.
Hawaii scientists say a supervoid may account for a cosmic anomaly. A supervoid is not empty, but rather a region of space that has less matter than other parts of the universe. The object is thought to be causing a 'less-dense' region of the universe known as the Cold Spot (shown bottom right). At 1.8 billion light-years across it would be the biggest object ever found. But some 'exotic physics' is also needed to explain what's happening.
Primatologists at Iowa State University recorded 300 hunts by chimps in Fongoli, Sénégal, and found female chimps were using tools to capture prey in 60 per cent of the observations.
Denver-based Founder and CEO of High There, Todd Mitchem, said that the app doesn't encourage the sale of marijuana but is simply a social network for people who consider it part of their lifestyle.
The song heard in the Antarctic can't be identified and doesn't fit the pattern of noise generated by one of a few known species of beaked whale, such as Curvier's beaked whale (stock image).
The TrackYourDose app (pictured) was developed by Germany-based firm esooka and uses a mathematical model developed by scientists and meteorologists.
A study by Harvard University in Massachusetts found that people who walked for 450 minutes per week - more than an hour a day - had 39 per cent less chance of dying prematurely.
For the study, psychologists from Swansea University measured participants' fingers - a good indicator of the amount of testosterone a baby has been exposed to in the womb.
A study of twins at Kings College London found that voting Conservative appeared to be strongly influenced by a person's genes, while they had a moderate effect on voting Labour, Ukip and Greens.
The Sainsbury's app is in development and will be trialled in Wandsworth later this year, allowing customers to be guided around the store with a map. The current Scan-and-Go app is pictured.
From 'here's you a piece of pizza' to 'this glass needs washed', every state has its own particular phrase that strikes the rest of the English-speaking world as bizarre. In New York for instance, there's a tendency to use the word 'so' for drama, such as 'I'm so totally over this.' Meanwhile, some people in San Jose will think nothing of saying 'didn't nobody help him' while Florida residents can be heard using grammar such as, 'I ain't never had no trouble with none of 'em.'
Virginia researchers say the GPS receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.
The study was conducted by scientists at Purdue University in Indiana. They were investigating how to reduce bird to aircraft collisions by keeping birds away from planes (stock image shown).
Chinese scientists discovered the new species of macaque living in the remote highland forests of Medog in south east Tibet, but warn it is already threatened by illegal hunting.
Palaeontologists from the University of Alberta studied a fossil of two oviraptors (pictured), which was discovered in Mongolia, to work out that males seen to have longer 'chevron' bones.
Scientists at the University of Queensland said empathy was the common factor in maintaining friendships in 20 separate studies involving 2,096 children from two to 10 years old.
Penn researchers say the urge to respond, and the beeping and flashing of a phone with a waiting message, it simply too much to bear - and tap into our deepest desires to evade predators.
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a technique that can detect cancerous cells and viral infections in blood or tissue samples.
Texas researchers plan to drill 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the surface of the Chicxulub crater in Mexico to try and answer the question of how the dinosaurs died out.
The Ease App (pictured) is the work of a Californian start-up that has just raised $10 million so that users can 'find the perfect medicine' in more states.
A vet from Washington State University said that dogs can be allergic to dander - the cells that shed from skin and hair - from cats and humans and vice versa.
The 310 mile (500km) wide moon, which astronomers say may harbour alien life, has geysers pumping out tendrils of ice-water at 800mph (1287km/h). These geysers won't be there forever as images show how long, sinuous, tendril-like structures (top right) near Enceladus (bottom right) are transferring material from the moon into Saturn's rings. These ghostly tendrils have long been known to follow Enceladus in its orbit around the gas giant - but this is the first time scientists have been able to track its source. The left image shows small water ice particles flying from fissures in the south polar region of Saturn's moon.
The organisation will present their report at the UN in Geneva next week. They say that we must consider banning 'fully autonomous weapons' (image from the movie Terminator shown).
The research was carried out at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.They surveyed more than 3,200 adults across the US, India, China, Japan, Great Britain and Australia.
Reports claim the Californian firm is the latest to set up a team dedicated to boosting how long phones, tablets and electric cars can run for, lead by battery expert Dr. Ramesh Bhardwaj.
Two skeletons were discovered to be lying on top of one another in a tomb dating to the 5th century, in Hwangnam-dong, a neighbourhood of Gyeongju City in South Korea.
The US Navy says its system will be able to launch a 30 drone 'swarm' in under a minute. The can work together to attack or defend sites, helping sailors and marines.
Scientists at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris have suggested that Neanderthals may have used camomile and yarrow to add flavour to their food following observations with chimps.
The study from University of Edinburgh is the first to show highly acidic oceans played a role. Volcanic eruptions released carbon dioxide into the oceans and changed their compositions.
The Californian firm's Messenger.com (shown) lets people chat to their Facebook contacts, start group conversations and send photos on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
Taiwan-based UFO researcher Scott Waring, claims he spotted the UFO in an image taken by unmanned space probe Mercury-Redstone 1A on December 19, 1960. The image was part of Project Mercury, which was the US' first mission to put humans in space. 'Why wouldn't aliens be interested in watching a historical moment in human history?,' asked Waring in his blog. Scientists say radical claims such as this are a simple case of pareidolia, which is the psychological response to significant items in random stimuli. A zoomed in version is inset.
The 'Precious' brew, created by Japanese liquor company Suntory and available in Hokkaido, boasts a five per cent alcohol content level and claims to have two grams of collagen per can.
British researchers found parents who work to instill self-control in their children could see huge benefits not only in the short-term, but throughout their working life.
Scientists at the University of Maryland and the Israel Institute of Technology have provided conflicting theories for the origin of the moon - although both agree Earth was hit by a large body (illustrated).
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen found that changing screens causes the brain to send information to a part of the brain which makes it difficult to recall later.
Using a combination of X-rays and lab experiments, engineers from Princeton University confirmed batteries bounce as they lose charge due to zinc oxidisation and this creates 'spring bridges'.
The Californian tech giant filed the patent in 2012 and it was published this week. The system would scan posts for spoilers (such as those in The Walking Dead pictured) and blur out the content automatically.
Blue Origin, a Seattle space company
owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has finished work on a
rocket engine for a suborbital spaceship.
Geneticists at the University of Warwick led a study of 26 mummies (like the one pictured) found in an 18th century Dominican church in the city of Vác in Hungary. They found eight died of TB.
Italian researchers have used DNA analysis to confirm that a mysterious skeleton (above) found embedded into the stalactites of a cave in Lamalunga, near Altamura, southern Italy (shown in the inset map), belonged to a Neanderthal who became trapped there. The DNA is the oldest to have ever been extracted from a Neanderthal and could provide new insights into how the species evolved, their relationship with modern humans and reveal new details about the unfortunate 'Altamura Man' himself.
Native reds have been almost wiped out, except for a few pockets in the north of England, the Isle of Wight and Scotland. But now, reds have been spotted in Windermere, in the Lake District.
Researchers from Heriot-Watt University have developed a computer that can collate meteorological information and then produce forecasts as if they were written by a human (stock image).
University of Illinois researchers gave 150 children a pattern game designed to test cognitive flexibility, and found that those who ate fatty food had slower reaction times.
London-based The Eco Experts created the maps using World Bank's World Development Indicator for deforestation and biodiversity. Sumatran tigers endangered in Indonesia are pictured.
The California Institute of Technology claims the extraordinary behaviour of water vapour in the gas giant's atmosphere could be the reason why these epic storms only happen every 30 years.
Researchers at Ohio State University said people in the study who took acetaminophen - the main ingredient in Tylenol - didn't appear to know they were reacting differently.
The claim was made by the commander of Russian Space Command. Oleg Maidanovich said someone was hiding satellites as space junk (artist's illustration of a satellite shown).
Scientists at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have studied lawrencium for first time. The radioactive element is extremely difficult to make and has a half-life of just 27 seconds.
The modern-day Martin Burgess Clock B (left) is based on John Harrison's (right) 18th century clock. It has been kept at the Royal Observatory, in Greenwich, to see if the claim - that the clock would neither lose nor gain more than a second in 100 days - was true. The time was measured using a radio-controlled clock, which received the national time signal, and the BT speaking clock. It has since been certified by the Guinness World Records as the 'most accurate mechanical clock with a pendulum swinging in free air' (inset).
The incredible-looking robotic head, known as Ham, has been drawing in crowds with his incredible range of facial expressions at the Global Sources electronics show in Hong Kong this week.
Washington DC-based Nasa has revealed 25 of the the 25 greatest Hubble Space Telescope images, to celebrate its 25th anniversary in space. Shown are the Pillars of Creation, by Hubble.
British scientists have come up with a set of robotic arms so sophisticated that they are capable of cooking meals from scratch, set to be out on the market from as early as 2017.
French free diver Guillame Néry jumped into Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. He is seen at the edge of the 660ft (200 metres) hole (pictured) before taking the plunge.
Varvara swam from the east coast of Russia to breeding grounds off the coast of Mexico, and back, without stopping to eat, experts claim. Stock image of gray whale is pictured
The images were revealed by Houston-based Nasa as part of the first colour map of Ceres, showing variations in surface materials, and revealing the diverse processes that helped shape it.
Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard has successfully flown Solar Impulse 2 from Chongqing to Nanjing in China (shown getting out of plane). The journey of 740 miles (1,190km) took more than 15 hours.
A Washington-based company unveils matches that burn in testing conditions. The £5.47 UCO Stormproof Matches use a coating that always smoulders.
A business called Edward's Snow Den has appeared in the US President's headquarters thanks to the clever work of internet pranksters.
Imperial College London claims the Roman general's symptoms, which included vertigo, dizziness and weakness in his limbs, were the result of mini-strokes rather than epilepsy.
Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg are having to wait to continue their groundbreaking flight. The plane (pictured) has been grounded in Chongqing for two and a half weeks.
Archaeologists at George Washington University discovered 20 stone flakes and anvils locked in sediment on the west shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya.
Researchers from Iowa said that as our faces became smaller in our evolution from hunter gatherers to more cooperative groups, the chin became a 'bony prominence'.
Nasa scientists in Maryland are preparing for the arrival of New Horizons at Pluto on 14 July - humanity's first-ever visit to the dwarf planet. This latest image (shown) reveals Pluto and Charon.
Brussels will say that Google has used its massive dominance as a search engine to divert internet users from rivals to its own services, which include YouTube and the Google+ social network.
The deposit containing the bone (pictured) was discovered during excavations ahead of a new pipeline in Landford, Essex and is thought to date to 5,600 BC.
The offending microwave, which released bursts of 'perytons', was found to be next door in the staff kitchen and visitors centre at the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
A mindfulness course could be offered as an alternative to drugs, psychologists from Oxford University and Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry said.
The video from Washington-based American Chemical Society shows how why gin dilutes anthocyanins in red wine stains and how an enzyme in spit removes food stains.
Scientists at Utrecht University found that the odours produced by our bodies can communicate our joy to others - a phenomenon known as chemosignalling.
The photographs of reef sharks swimming though a shoal of fish were captured in the shallow waters of Heron Island in Queensland, Australia.
The Colorado-based company said the Vulcan will use new engines, mid-air recovery and a new upper stage aimed at enabling complex on-orbit manoeuvres.
This image of a cat on a flight of stairs has provoked a furious debate online between users who cannot agree whether the animal is climbing or descending the staircase.
Apple bought Israel-based LinX in a deal said to be worth $20 million (£13.5 million). An example of how similar technology works is pictured. This shot was taken using Intel's RealSense 3D camera.
In World War Two, a top-secret weapons lap called 'Churchill's Toyshop' operated initially out of London to develop weapons to beat the Nazis, including an aircraft made of ice (shown).
Los Angeles dating site Tinder has added the ability to let people add their latest Instagram snaps to their profile.
New York based app developer Michael Smagon claims the I'm Up Alarm will help those who struggle to get out of the bed in the morning by sounding an alarm until they scan a QR code.
The baboon bone was found when Gary Sawyer and Mike Smith at the American Museum of Natural History in New York began work on a reconstruction of Lucy's skeleton.
The robot, (pictured) engineered by a company in Coventry, uses vision technology called iRVision to keep an eye on humans and automatically stops if it touches a flesh-and-blood operator.
Patients at Wolfson Children's Hospital are able to remotely play with animals at the nearby Jacksonville Humane Society shelter using the touchscreen TV in their room.
The update from the Cupertino firm, which has been in beta for several months, brings over 300 new emojis (including diversity options) as well as a new keyboard for inputting them more easily.
The world's largest atom-smashing machine is most famous for proving the existence of the Higgs boson - but scientists hope it will now unlock even more fundamental secrets of the universe.
A map has been created using a UFO sighting dataset from the National UFO Reporting Centre and open source software from CartoDB that shows UFO sightings around the world.
Japanese officials have attempted to dismiss rumours of an impending earthquake as 'unscientific' and experts believe the whales may have suffered an infection or were avoiding a predator.
The first four videos have been released on the Californian firm's site including an introduction to the main features, plus how to use the Messages app, customise the face,and use digital touch.
Biologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel used high speed videos of octopuses (pictured) crawling over objects to study how the animals move.
Biologists at Jyväskylä University in Finland claim to have settled the debate about whether eye spots on the wings of butterflies are a form of Batesian mimicry or simply patterns that confuse predators.
A San Diego cat expert claims to have cracked the code of how cats communicate and says he can tell owners what each purr and tail wag means.
Munich-based BMW Group's answer to Google Glass is designed to let drivers of its Mini model see pop-up virtual displays for showing maps and other features
Researchers from the Ocean Exploration Trust were stunned when their robosub had an unexpected encounter with a sperm whale off the coast of Louisiana.
The experiments will be launched by Houston-based Nasa in 2018 during a test flight of the Orion spacecraft using the largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built; the Space Launch System.
Arizona has plans to create artificial rain clouds by flying planes over the Rockies, and seeding the sky with silver iodide. But some scientists are concerned about silver building up in river basins.
The maps, compiled by cartographer Trent Hare at the US Geological Survey, include image mosaics and topographical views of lunar features such as the 'Ocean of Storms' and Mare Orientale.
Bonhams is auctioning rare documents from the Hiroshima atomic bombing in New York (diagram shown). They were compiled by Captain Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay.
Rime ice forms the mountain in New Hampshire when water droplets freeze instantly on contact with the rock. The peak has experienced some of the highest wind speeds ever recorded.
Research has said that a 'Neanderthal flute' found in Slovenia (shown) - believed to be the world's oldest musical instrument - is simply a bone chewed in a cave by a hyena 30,000 years ago.
After a 62-mile (100km) trek through the Thai jungle, Me-Bai, the small elephant can be seen nuzzling her mother, Mae Yui, (both pictured) and joyfully flapping her ears.
This classic optical illusion, created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reveals how our brains pick out different types of detail depending on how far away an image appears.
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.
Dmitry Kaminskiy, a senior partner of Hong Kong-based firm, Deep Knowledge Ventures, is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'.
The 36,000-year-old artwork in the world's oldest cave decorated by man, has been recreated for a new attraction in Vallon-Pont-D'arc in Southern France.
San Francisco-based atheist author David Fitzgerald says that there is no evidence that Jesus existed and was probably a literary allegory created from rival cults and Jewish stories.
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 footage (pictured) was shot by a wildlife cruise company, off the coast of Pembrokeshire. On four occasions, grey seals have been spied feasting on harbour porpoises.
Common dolphins were once a rare sight in the Hebrides, preferring warmer waters found further south, but now numbers have doubled in the region.
The device, created in British Columbia, recognises the electronic signature of different devices, such as kettles, allowing users to keep an eye on their energy consumption via an app.
Researchers from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France measured seismic activity, including earthquakes, storms and the ocean waves (stock image) in 2008.
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.
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti wore the uniform on Friday (shown). Together with Nasa astronaut Terry Virts she captured the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which was full of supplies.
Washington, DC company United Space Structures says their giant rotating space station (shown) could replace the ISS. It would be 1,300ft long, cost $300 billion and take 30 years to build.
Scientists from the UK and Portugal have calculated the differences between species of 'diplodocid' and found crucial anatomical variations between Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus.
A cosmologist at the University of Barcelona Institute of Cosmos Science believes aliens (stock image) may be larger than humans and could live on a planet with lower population densities.
Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and MIT have been developing a new armour inspired by fish skin (like the Arapaima gigas pictured) for the US Army Research Office.
Known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), just 10 have been discovered - and German researchers say they all contain a strange patttern.
Scientists in Colorado have found evidence for a new solar season cycle. Every two years it appears 'bands' of magnetic field move to the surface, causing some coronal mass ejections (pictured).
Martin Bellander, a PhD student in psychology at the Karolinska Institute created the graph by writing software to analyse images of free artwork he found online.
The stone containing the 'screw' (pictured) was found in the Kaluga region in Russia and is said to be 300 millions years old by the team of UFO and paranormal researchers who found it.
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 video, taken by a plane off Florida's northeastern coast, near Jacksonville, shows the Falcon 9 booster lowering itself onto the platform, before a gust of wind sways it to one side.
The unique experiment by security firm Bitglass tracked stolen data from California as it travelled the globe, and found that it landed in five different continents and 22 countries within just two weeks.
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.
Sokaze-ki Q, (pictured) from Panasonic Japan, uses fluid dynamics to boost air flow. It is brought through the rear of the fan before being moving through engineered channels and a turbofan.
A bloodstained document (shown) revealing a life-or-death episode that could have derailed the whole US space programme of the 1960s is tipped to sell for £80,000 ($120,000) at an auction in New York.
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.
A paper from the University of Florida is the latest attempt to explain exactly why humans - unlike all other primates - have chins.
The light in these extraordinary images has travelled so far that it has taken 4,200 years to get here. Scientists said the photographs reveal the immense forces unleashed when a star is born.
The stunning mosaic, pieced together by the German Aerospace Center in Köln, could help scientists better understand how water and lava once flowed across Mars.
KukuKube was created by Canada-based Network365. The free app is available on Facebook, Android, iOS and on desktop browsers and a score of 31 or above is a sign of great eyesight.
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.
A US eBay seller is looking for $2,499.99 (£1,707.47) for a vintage Quartz watch distributed by Apple (pictured) in 1997 to promote its Mac operating system.
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.
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).
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.
SpaceX had hoped to land the booster in one piece on a drone boat a few hundred miles off Florida's northeastern coast. Its main mission to deliver supplies to the ISS was completed today.
The creature, named Hyalinobatrachium dianae was found in the mountains of eastern Costa Rica and has a distinctive call.
A computer bot designed buy a random item once a week from hidden market places on the internet was seized by Swiss police after buying drugs. It was later released 'without charge'.
French biologists have found that chimpanzees at Kibale National Park in Uganda have learned to look both ways before crossing a busy stretch of concreted road.
London-based firm Goldgenie has unveiled its luxury brand of Apple Watches (one shown). The expensive devices are made with 24 karat gold, rose gold or platinum.
At first glance the rectangular island of Por-Bajin looks like a fortress or a prison, with its regular structure and ruined sections but some said it is was a summer palace or monastery.
Eye lifts and face lifts are the procedures that yielded the most positive ratings after surgery, researchers from Georgetown University School of Medicine found.
An Israeli geologist has conducted a battery of chemical tests to link the James Ossuary (pictured) with the long disputed 'Jesus Family tomb' in Jerusalem's East Talpiot neighbourhood.
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.
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