A new data-fed war on terror led to the capture of 21/7 bomb plotters but made ISIS vanish into the shadows of the encrypted web.
The global map, created by New York designer Michelle Chandra, places a marker for Instagram users' #sunrise and #sunset tags from the past 24 hours. The larger the bright dot on the zoomable map, the closer to the moment of the actual event. A search bar in the upper right corner can look up a certain location and users can also zoom in on photographs taken of a city or landmark. Users can then hover over the dots to see the photograph captured.
Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta are hoping the results will make people think differently about animals that are traditionally seen as meat.
The robotic 'cryobot' is designed to tunnel down through thick ice caps and penetrate subterranean seas, and is undergoing tests on the Matanuska glacier in Alaska.
Li Weidong, who discovered the ili pika in Jinghe County in 1983, says he has been asked to capture and breed the animal to sell as pets, but warns that captivity would likely kill the pikas.
Scientists at the University of Iowa discovered that giving an increased level of salt to mice on a high-fat diet caused them to put on less weight over a period of 16 weeks.
Thousands of stone tools unearthed from a cave in Jordan have revealed the first bosses emerged 45,000 years ago.
The parasite toxoplasma gondii, which can be passed from cats to humans, could play a role in the development of schizophrenia, scientists from the Stanley Medical Research Institute said.
Lucasfilm has revealed it is developing a virtual reality system to allow viewers of the Force awakens to step into the Star Wars universe. It is developing two systems, one using headsets and one using iPads and projectors to create an augmented reality room based on the scenes from the film.
The list was compiled at the University Campus Suffolk. It compared speeds of clichés such as 'lightning fast' and 'a bat out of hell'. Top place went to the speed of light, at 300,000,000 metres p/s.
Participants in Los Angeles underwent experimental partial sleep deprivation over four nights. Blood samples were then taken to assess gene expression in cells linked with ageing.
The standard price for individuals in the UK for Apple Music (pictured) will be £9.99 a month for access to 30 million songs, live radio and an artist-led social media platform.
Researchers at Helmholtz Centre for Health and Environmental Research in Munich grew a new mammary gland network (illustrated) to understand how the glands regenerate.
YouTube is seeking to win over gamers with a new dedicated site an app, announced ahead of next week's Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University scanned the brains of participants (pictured) as they learnt about the diet and habitat of eight different animals.
Polar bears feed mainly on seals, so Jon Aars at the Norwegian Polar Institute was shocked to see dolphins being devoured by a bear. The strange behaviour, seen in the Norwegian Arctic, may be due warmer waters causing the dolphins to find their way north earlier in the year. In the photos a visibly skinny old male bear devours one of the dolphins and appeared to have stored a second one under snow for later (inset) - something which scientist had never seen before.
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World land speed record holder Andy Green tested Bloodhound SSC's parachute system on a Jaguar F-TYPE R Coupé driven on a track at a former RAF base in Bentwaters, Suffolk. The vital high-speed parachute tests are part of the preparation for a unique engineering adventure - creating a car that can cover a mile in just 3.6 seconds. To test this system ahead of the car's first run, Jaguar, a technical partner to the project, fitted it to an F-TYPE R Coupé and ran it on a former military runway to over 180mph (289km/h) before firing the parachute (pictured).
Scientists at Carnegie Melon University in Pennsylvania say there is a sixth dimension to personality - honesty and humility - which, until now, has gone untested by psychologists.
The concept was devised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was designed to give astronauts more time on the surface. The tent could let them 'camp' overnight (shown) and explore.
Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan tested three groups of 18 dogs using role plays to explore how they would react to people being helpful and unhelpful to their owners.
Surgeons at Stellenbosch University, who carried out the procedure in December last year, said the news of the pregnancy is proof the operation was successful and the organ is functioning.
Nasa scientists in Maryland studied the exoplanet Wasp-33b (shown). They found that it had a stratosphere high in its atmosphere, where the temperature gets hotter as the altitude increases.
BlackBerry will probably use Android on a slider phone to be released this autumn, two sources told Reuters. The move is seen as an acknowledgement its own handsets failed to win mass appeal.
Palaeontologists argue that while the film has helped renew interest in dinosaurs, the plot provides a bizarre notion of how creatures lived in the Jurassic era.
The Fore People in Papua New Guinea used to be cannibals (file photo shown), eating the brains and flesh of the dead. This caused an epidemic, but may have also made them resistance to kuru.
The European Space Agency revealed their best candidate for Philae. Images in December show a bright object that wasn't there weeks earlier (shown) which could be the probe. Philae landed on comet 67P on 12 November but bounced twice. The probe is now in hibernation and scientists have been trying to locate it.
After three months of using a social media-based campaign, 32 per cent of smokers quit, compared to 14 per cent using more traditional methods, Canadian researchers found.
Critics claim that Apple put pressure on Taylor Swift (pictured) among other stars, to ditch other music-streaming services such as Spotify and YouTube in favour of it's own, which launched on Monday.
Experts at the University of Edinburgh made their calculations by multiplying number of organisms on Earth by the number of cells containing one or more DNA molecules.
Code contained in Apple's latest test version of iOS 9 reveals plans for a radically upgraded front facing camera and panoramic selfies, experts have found.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down from his role beginning July 1, and Twitter co-founder and current Square CEO, Jack Dorsey, will take over as Interim CEO, it has been revealed.
The change was announced on Twitter's developer community, but the site insisted it wouldn't impact public tweets. It is expected to launch in July, but an exact date hasn't been revealed.
Dubbed 'Sexplorations', the film will star porn actors Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins, who will receive 'six months of rigorous training' prior to launch, according to the California-based site.
The OMG Shakespeare series, branded 'absolutely disastrous' by academics, takes the Bard's original prose and replaces it with slang, text speak and emoticons.
Researchers at Yale University used a technique called multispectral imaging to uncover the hidden information that Columbus (pictured inset) had at his fingertips. So far they have revealed hundreds of place names and more than 60 written passages. One example is information about Japan, which is marked in the wrong place on the 15th century map (main image).
The zoo (illustrated) and theme park could open in China as soon as 2017 and would also include a virtual museum and aquarium, which would also use virtual reality technology.
The study was led by Jeffrey Podoshen from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania. He believes people visit sites to prepare themselves for a dystopian future.
Scientists at Arizona State University believe their design could be used to replace rigid and bulky batteries which have limited the development of compact wearable devices.
German scientists studying the structure of dentine (illustrated) - the layer beneath a tooth's enamel - have found that nanostructures in it stop teeth from cracking.
The map, by Benjamin Ray, a professor at the University of Virginia, plots the geography and timing of each accusation and reveals just how rapidly hysteria built from a small community to a state.
Richard Weller, an Edinburgh University dermatologist, says that far from being something to be scared of, regular exposure to the sun is good for us.
Microsoft has revealed its giant 84 inch touchscreen TV will go on sale in September. The giant screen will run Windows 10, and will cost $20,000.
The bug in the Mail client in iOS was first spotted by Prague-based researcher jansoucek in January. However, after Apple failed to fix the flaw he published the 'proof-of-concept' code.
This incredible photos were taken by filmmaker Sam Cossmann and his team and shows his harrowing journey into the Marum crater, which is one of only seven lava lakes on the planet, located on the remote island of Ambrym, in the Republic of Vanuatu. Cossmann and his team used high tech drones, virtual reality cameras, and biometric wearable sensors to learn more about the geology of such an extreme environment.
Perched on the cusp of an area known as the 'local void', the NGC 6503 galaxy is thought to be around 18,000 light years away from Earth and about a third of the size of the Milky Way.
Researchers have revealed plans for a 'hover home' than can simply rise up off the ground using powerful magnets in the event of an earthquake.
The study was carried out by scientists from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Some participants could eat ice cream and bread rather than salad (stock image shown) and still lose weight.
Called Jott, a new app allows users to send messages without having to have a mobile phone plan. Instead, it uses wifi to create its own mini network - blanketing schools.
The update forms part of watchOS 2, the next-generation software unveiled at this week's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. The Vine app is pictured.
Researchers from the University of Maryland took infrared images of Saturn and studied its outer Phoebe ring (shown), and found it extends 10 million miles (16 million km).
Researcher discovered people cycled around 25 per cent faster when doing easy cognitive tasks at the same time. They say the discovery could even help those averse to the gym exercise more effectively.
Scientists at Pennsylvania State University found that reacting badly to everyday challenges can weaken the immune system and cause chronic inflammation.
With unflattering lab coats and enormous goggles (top left and bottom left picture) to catch their tears (main picture), Twitter was awash with women scientists telling leading biochemist Sir Tim Hunt they were #distractinglysexy. Sir Tim, a Royal Society fellow, was roundly criticised over his claim women are a distraction in the laboratory. At a conference of science journalists, he provoked outrage by saying: 'Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry.'
Scientists at the University of Liverpool say the long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur was still the biggest to ever walk the earth.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth filmed 46 chimpanzees in Zambia using ChimpFACS - a facial action coding system designed for chimps - to measure facial movements.
The University of Kyoto researchers said that simply knowing we are on the homeward leg of a trip may make it seem shorter, when looking back.
The Hong Kong entrepreneurs behind Aumeo (app and device pictured) are seeking $40,000 (£26,000) on Indiegogo to pay for the mass manufacture of the product.
Professor Charles Spence, a psychologist at Oxford University, says dishes should be 'sonically seasoned' by the music of their country of origin (stock images of flamenco and paella pictured).
The study by Columbia University in the US indicated that babies born in April are at highest risk of angina, while those born in November have a higher risk of suffering bronchitis and ADHD.
Called June, the oven has a built in camera to recognise food put inside and find recipes, and specially developed elements reach 350°F in 4 minutes and 15 seconds.
Tempescope's 'ambient weather display' (pictured) was designed by Japan-based Ken Kawamoto. It obtains tomorrow's forecast from online sources and simulates the weather, hour-by-hour.
The German automaker's new 7 Series is designed to balance luxury with technology, including a gesture control interface (pictured left) and remote control parking (bottom right). The car has a sleek carbon fibre body that makes it 190 lbs lighter than its predecessor, hiding a more efficient V-8 engine generating 445 horsepower as well as a luxurious interior with TVs and other creature comforts (top right).
A new image shows how California-based The Planetary Society's LightSail prototype successfully deployed its giant Mylar solar sail in space (shown).
According to the radical rumours, the asteroid would strike near Puerto Rico triggering earthquakes and tsunamis sometime between between 22 to 28 September this year.
Try to remember the colour of paint you see in this image. Now click on the story to see if you can pick out the exact shade. According to a recent study, you may find it harder than you expect.
The makers of the gadget, based in Atlanta Georgia, claim it's 'the most important kitchen appliance since the microwave'.
Researchers from Brown University used satellite data to detect the deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. They might provide a window into the possibility of past life on the red planet.
Passengers in London, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds are paying significantly more for journeys in and around places like Sydney, Amsterdam, Paris, Dubai and Los Angeles.
Experts at Imperial College have revealed a radical 'single wing' seaplane that could carry upto 2,000 passengers on trips across the ocean.
Apple has finally solved the mystery of its fleet of cars. The tech giant said that it is cruising streets in specially equipped cars to gather pictures and other data for its free online mapping service.
Dinosaurs inhabited Earth between 230 and 66 million years ago. During that time many different strange and wonderful creatures lived. The first ever recorded dinosaur bone discovery was in Oxford in 1677. Some dinosaurs lived to 300, while others laid eggs 18 inches long. The velociraptors in Jurassic World are also thought to have feathers (top right), while there may have been two extinction events (bottom right). It also appears that Usain Bolt would have been able to outrun a T-rex (illustrated left).
German car manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz, has unveiled a personal energy cell that, like Tesla's Powerwall, uses batteries to charge up during off-peak hours.
The ancient grave was found in a six-week excavation of the city of Aksum in northern Ethiopa alongside 'extraordinary' artefacts dating from the first and second centuries.
'App thinning' will be supported on Apple's iOS 9 and later models. It ensures apps use the lowest amount of storage space by 'slicing' it to work on individual handsets (illustrated).
Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has used 80 images taken by its Dawn spacecraft as it has orbited the dwarf planet Ceres to create a spectacular flyover video.
Chimps were tested at Georgia State University. If the answer was correct, they received a reward. When the chimp was confident it was correct, it would move to the room faster.
Photographer Ralph Mirebs visited an abandoned hangar near the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It houses two shuttles (shown) that were part of the ill-fated Buran shuttle programme.
When the wearer applies pressure, sensors send signals to the brain - and researchers from the University of Linz said the breakthrough could also fight phantom pain often experienced by amputees.
The 60 ft (18 metre) long basilosaurus skeleton, discovered in Wadi al-Hitan, Egypt, known as the Valley of Whales, is the only one to be found intact.
eBay surveyed 1,000 people across five continents, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America about tech habits. The research revealed that Europeans are the most put out by posts about pets or children - with 38 per cent of participants finding it annoying. North Americans hate people take selfies in the mirror more than any other region, on 69%. Meanwhile, people in Asia will tolerate a lot of behaviour but were the most annoyed by people checking their phones during dinner. Almost half of participants across America and Europe get frustrated by gym selfies (pictured).
Oculus, the VR firm bought by Facebook, is finally revealing the details of its groundbreaking virtual reality headset at a San Francisco launch event.
John Nelson combined census data with statistics compiled between 1925 and 2014 by the Washington-based National UFO Reporting Centre to make his maps.
Doodle Draw (pictured) is the first game to launch within Facebook's Messenger platform, which was first opened up to developers in April at the f8 conference in California.
Italian physicist Enrico Fermi posed a troubling question in 1950. He asked, if life was so abundant, why has no one made contact with us? A video took a look at the paradox (image shown).
The Draftback extension, created by New York-based developer James Somers, works by putting a button in Chrome that plays back your writing history in a Google Doc.
Scientists from the University of Windsor in Canada found pedophiles were also more likely to have non-detached earlobes and a high palate, among other physical irregularities.
Experts at Imperial College have revealed a radical 'single wing' seaplane that could carry upto 2,000 passengers on trips across the ocean.
The Mirror Display (pictured) and Transparent Display were unveiled at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Both displays are powered by Intel's Real Sense technology.
Astronomers at the Alma Observatory in Chile took advantage of gravitational lensing effect to capture their closest ever view of a galaxy called SDP.81 that is 12 billion light years away.
A whitepaper by UCLA's Suprastudio provides ideas for routes, station design and capsule design. One proposed route travels California's high-speed rail network via Las Vegas.
Move to iOS (pictured) is a free app built into Apple's iOS 9 software, unveiled at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday.
The Mirror Display (pictured) and Transparent Display were unveiled at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Both displays are powered by Intel's Real Sense technology.
Lead researcher Michael Smithson, from the Australian National University said scientists, artists and entrepreneurs all capitalise on the creativity sparked by ignorance.
SpaceX's office in Seattle is seeking to test its space-based Internet. It will ultimately send more than 4,000 satellites (illustrated) to orbit. These will provide cheap coverage to everyone in the world.
Twins or Not is powered by Microsoft's Project Oxford Face API. It helps developers add image recognition tools to sites or apps. Caitlyn Jenner (left) and Jessica Lange (right) are shown.
A team of experts from Harvard University and the National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing used mesh electronics (pictured) to monitor brain activity in mice.
Daniel Britton, a 25-year-old designer from Hartley in Kent, created the 'Dyslexia' font to convey the emotion behind having the condition to those who find it difficult to understand.
A survey by password management firm Centrify has found a quarter of people forget a password at least once a day, leading many to scream, cry and even bang their heads on a desk.
A University of Maryland study has revealed the characteristics of Pluto and its moons (shown). Most of them appear to have chaotic, tumbling rotations and surfaces that are as bright as sand.
CONTAINS SPOILERS: An article for Vox in Washington examined the show's climate links. It said that the White Walkers (still from latest episode shown) could be substituted for global warming.
Scientists at Imperial College London found red blood cells and collagen-like fibres (pictured) on eight fossils that had been left in storage at the Natural History Museum in London for 100 years.
Named Lovely, the sex toy links up with your smartphone and uses your data to recommend new 120 different sex positions and ways to improve your technique.
The discovery was made by a student at the University of Sydney. She found that plasma was being trapped in Earth's magnetic field lines and created a 3D view of the tubes (shown).
Clinical psychologist Linda Blair said children coming to her clinic with suspected (ADHD) would generally see some improvement if they practised 'screen management'.
Nature blogger Harry Perton was snapping pictures of a storm in Groningen in the Netherlands, when he captured a shot of what appears to be a UFO floating across the sky.
The discovery by French researchers goes some way to explaining why the corona - a hazy layer of gas around the sun - is around 200 times the temperature of the surface of the sun itself.
The research was carried out by the Massachusetts General Hospital. Researchers stripped a dead arm of all of its cells. They then injected it with blood vessels and muscle cells (shown).
The Yaskawa Electric Company in Japan has trained one of its Motorman industrial robots to use a katana sword, which then competed against a master swordsman Isao Machii.
A team of computer scientists in Vancouver Canada, created the Holus, which they say can convert any digital content from a computer, tablet or phone into a 3D image.
Researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark found that the Yamnaya people from southern Russia spread their ideas and DNA to northern Europe during a mass migration period.
Professor Adrian Bejan from Duke University, said that, all other variables being equal, the best fires are roughly as tall as they are wide to offer the most efficient air and heat flow. Stock image shown.
Details of the technique - developed by a team led Imperial College London and a space scientist at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre - were published in the journal Space Weather.
The rain left a trail of powdery residue across a nearly 200-mile (322-km) stretch of eastern parts of Oregon and Washington state earlier this year.
Physicists at the Australian National University conducted an experiment using lasers that showed whether an atom would appear as a particle or a wave could be determined by an event later in time.
Described as the 'find of a life-time' the bones (pictured) of the 100 million-year-old theopod dinosaur were discovered on Lavernock beach near Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Apple has unveiled its new $9.99 per month streaming music service and a 24 hour online radio station called Beats One to take on Spotify and Tidal, Jay Z's service.
The Charlie Charlie Challenge is a Mexican supernatural ritual that allegedly makes it possible to contact a ghost by writing 'Yes' and 'No' twice on a sheet of paper and asking questions.
The prototype was created in a year by Bay Zoltan Non-profit in Hungary. The test flight saw the vehicle hover several metres above the ground for 30 seconds.
Apple is set to include the news app with every copy of its latest iOS software, the firm said today - and it will learn the kind of stories the user likes over time.
In Einsenhower State Park, rangers have spotted clumps of what they thought was discarded spaghetti sitting in the middle of the road. The 'pasta' turned out to be worms behaving oddly.
Nasa scientists in California have revealed Dawn's best images yet. One image (shown) reveals there are numerous bright spots in a crater, but their origin remains unknown.
Researchers from the University of Tübingen trained crows to discriminate between groups of dots (pictured) to show they 'count' like humans.
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.
The photo was captured by Tasha Sturm, a microbiologist in California, who took a handprint from her eight-year-old son after he had been playing outside.
The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) announced the winners at an award ceremony hosted by Woburn Safari Park.
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