Designed by Australia-based Paranormal Games, the app creates a 'personalised afterlife experience' by transforming a person's movement and memories into digital models (left and top right). Some argue that it can provide real comfort and support in times of grief, while others say it can prevent people from moving and living in reality. Project Elysium has been entered into the upcoming Oculus VR Jam 2015. Pictured on the bottom right is an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, which the app will eventually work on.
Concept artist Alex Brady from Cambridge has created beautiful pictures of what space travel might look like.
Concept artist Alex Brady from Cambridge has created beautiful pictures of what space travel might look like.
The Apple Watch laid bare: Tech experts take the timepiece apart to reveal what's inside - including its tiny battery
Tech experts at California-based iFixit have completed a so-called 'teardown' of the 38mm Sport model (pictured inset) of Apple's watch. This teardown reveals a 205mAh battery (pictured main) and Apple's S1 chip. The Watch also features an accelerometer, gyroscope and heart rate sensor. The hotly-anticipated device began shipping to customers globally who had pre-ordered earlier today, but it is not available to buy in Apple Stores.
How Lenin's corpse looks better with age: Scientists reveal experimental embalming methods used on the Soviet leader
Vladmir Lenin may have been dead for 90 years, but his corpse looks better than the day he passed. This is the claim made by his embalmers, who have developed bizarre techniques to maintain the look and feel of the communist revolutionary's body. They brag that their 'quasibiological' science has been the result of almost a century of fine-tuning, creating a science that has benefited real-world medical applications. The gruesome job is the responsibility of a team known as the 'Mausoleum group' which, at its peak, involved 200 scientists working in a lab dedicated to the former leader's corpse. Lenin is pictured inset in 1918, six years before his death.
- Viva SPACE Vegas! Artist imagines fantastical future of spaceflight - complete with gambling, glitz and glamour
- How Inuit women were wearing fur THONGS 130 years ago! Sexy seal underwear was donned when guests visited
- Can't get a song out of your head? CHEW GUM! Study finds solution to prevent catchy lyrics turning into 'brainworms'
- Did stegosaurus use its armour to attract a mate? Male and female dinosaurs had different shaped plates along their backs
- Could Oculus Rift bring people back from the dead? Virtual reality app claims to reunite users with deceased loved ones
- How being attractive can ruin your career: Good-looking men get less job offers because they intimidate bosses, says study
- Now conspiracy theorists say there is a 'hidden army' on Mars: Absurd theory suggests a bunker, people and missiles can be seen on the red planet
- Should sitting desks be banned in classrooms? Children pay more attention to lessons when standing, claims study
- Listen to an UNDERWATER volcano erupt: Surprising sound of one of Earth's most violent events captured beneath the waves
- How your THOUGHTS can fuel brain tumours: Scientists reveal how cancer hijacks the process of thinking
- Letting your baby nap in a car seat, swing or bouncer could be deadly, experts warn
- ‘Come tour the home of our ancestors!’: 'Vintage' space tourism posters reveal a colonised solar system - and Earth in ruin
- The belly of the Yellowstone beast: Scientists find huge reservoir of hot magma under the surface that could fill the Grand Canyon ELEVEN TIMES
- Underwater hotels and flights through low-orbital space by 2050... and teleportation by 2080: What the future of travel will look like
- Inbred and isolated: DNA analysis reveals demise of the mighty woolly mammoth
- Anxiety is 'catching' and can be passed on to children, scientists warn over-protective parents
- Samsung takes aim at Motorola with a ROUND smartwatch: Firm teases circular device for its Gear range of wearables
- Our climate models are WRONG: Global warming has slowed - and recent changes are down to ‘natural variability’, says study
- Nasa beefs up its team of 'alien hunters' - and says we may be on the verge of finding extraterrestrial life
- How Lenin's corpse looks better with age: Scientists reveal experimental embalming methods used on the Soviet leader
- The belly of the Yellowstone beast: Scientists find huge reservoir of hot magma under the surface that could fill the Grand Canyon ELEVEN TIMES
- Now conspiracy theorists say there is a 'hidden army' on Mars: Absurd theory suggests a bunker, people and missiles can be seen on the red planet
- The Apple Watch laid bare: Tech experts take the timepiece apart to reveal what's inside - including its tiny battery
- Marijuana users may have ‘false memories’: Brain scans reveal how cannabis smokers can live in their own reality
- Governments are HIDING aliens, claims former defence minister: Paul Hellyer urges world leaders to reveal 'secret files'
- Taking the p***! Google Maps shows Android URINATING on Apple's logo when users navigate to Pakistan
- ‘Come tour the home of our ancestors!’: 'Vintage' space tourism posters reveal a colonised solar system - and Earth in ruin
- Inbred and isolated: DNA analysis reveals demise of the mighty woolly mammoth
- Now THAT'S a spin cycle! Exercise bike washes your dirty laundry as you pedal
- How being attractive can ruin your career: Good-looking men get less job offers because they intimidate bosses, says study
- How Inuit women were wearing fur THONGS 130 years ago! Sexy seal underwear was donned when guests visited
- Secret of comedians' 'gift of the gab' revealed: Confident speakers use region of brain less, scans reveal
- Self-driving 'taxibots' could replace 90% of cars: Study claims driverless cabs will dramatically ease congestion in major cities
- How your THOUGHTS can fuel brain tumours: Scientists reveal how cancer hijacks the process of thinking
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Pictish fort discovered on remote sea stack: Iron Age stronghold off Scottish coast may have been look-out post to protect against raiders
Archaeologists uncovered the fort on top of the 20-foot-high Dunnicaer sea stack (pictured left) near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire (shown on the map bottom right). They believe it may have been one of a line of forts along the Scottish coast. They found the remains of stone walls (shown being excavated top right), post holes, ramparts and a charcoal filled stone fireplace. Inaccessible at high tide, the fort would have provided a base of power over the surrounding land and sea.
Bicycle powered by HANDS set to beat speed record - and the aluminium frame is controlled using the cyclist's HEAD
Mechanical and composites engineers and students from Plymouth University have developed a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) (pictured inset) which they hope will set a new arm-powered speed record in the Nevada desert in September. Piloted and powered by paracyclist Liz McTernan (pictured main), it needs exceed 21.39mph (34.42 km/h) over 656ft (200-metres) to beat the current women's benchmark.
Apple smartwatch on sale from today... but not on the high street: Customers will have to wait until June to take delivery after ordering online
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.
Did a METEOR change the course of Christianity? Chelyabinsk-like fireball may have made Paul the Apostle convert
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.
Where your computer goes to die: Shocking pictures of the toxic 'electronic graveyards' in Africa where the West dumps its old PCs, laptops, microwaves, fridges and phones
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.
How it feels to be INVISIBLE: Virtual reality experiment tricks people into thinking their body has disappeared
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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Did YOU spot the Lyrids last night? Spectacular images reveal meteors streaking across the night sky during annual shower
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.
The scanner that can scour an entire PLANE: Mobile device can find weapons and drugs hidden onboard
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'.
Now THAT'S a spin cycle! Exercise bike washes your dirty laundry as you pedal
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When supermassive black holes COLLIDE: Best-ever 3D simulation reveals how space-time warps during the cataclysmic event
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.
World's most powerful telescope to launch in 2018: 'Time machine' will peer back over 13.5 billion years to see first stars forming
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.
How Inuit women were wearing fur THONGS 130 years ago! Sexy seal underwear was donned when guests visited
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.
Is this the apocalypse, ask locals: Hundreds evacuated as Chilean volcano erupts for first time in 40 years and sends huge plume of ash into the sky
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
Does YOUR state believe in global warming? Interactive map reveals spread of opinion on climate change across the US
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.
Google NESSIE view: Tech giant lets you explore Loch Ness through the eyes of its mythical monster
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.
How Saturn is devouring its moon: Stunning images reveal Enceladus' ghostly tendrils being sucked in by the gas giant's rings
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.
Now THAT'S a caveman! Neanderthal who fell down sinkhole 150,000 years ago starved to death and FUSED with its walls
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.
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