The winner of the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest contest will see their work showcased at London's Royal Observatory.
A University of Glasgow team has identified traces of the gem known on Earth as 'fire opal' (bottom right) within a Martian meteorite known as Nakhla (top right). Opal is an intriguing find, not only because it can preserve fossils, but because it often has a high water content. The find could help future exploration missions decide where to look for evidence of Martian life. The image on the left shows a hydrated mineral that scientists suspect may be opal on Mars.
The replica was built using 3D scans of the original prop from the TV series. It can act as a bluetooth headset to make and receive calls, play audio clips from the show and act as a speaker.
Lindsey Lohan, Katy Perry and Josh Groban have all admitted to using the service, and will now be able to have a blue tick next to their name.
Researchers say the test could help predict how people will act in response to stress - and could even lead to new ways to detect depression, anxiety, and addiction.
Apple is now selling less than 20,000 watches a day in the U.S. since the Watch's opening week, according to a report by California-based Slice Intelligence.
Kestrel Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS), A small private firm in the US, has developed a surveillance system that could potentially capture every crime the moment it happens.
The social network for Brazilian Evangelicals has attracted 100,000 users in its first month and was set up as a morally superior alternative to Facebook.
A family companion robot named Buddy, which can structure you day, monitor your home security and even play hide and seek with your kids, could be all yours by 2016. Currently under construction in France, Blue Frog Robotics hope to have the product ready for sale by November 2016.
Home Sharing lets people share music over a Wi-Fi network, but it vanished during the iOS 8.4 update. Apple's Eddy Cue has now said the firm is working on solving the problem (pictured).
The leaked image was analysed by experts at fan site 9to5Mac and tech firm Chipworks. They claim the new NFC processor, used to make contactless Apple Pay payments, will add a secure element.
Biologists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory have captured copepods ingesting flourescent plastic debris (pictured) on video and say it appears to interfere with the rate they feed on algae.
Cardiff University psychologists recorded a 44 per cent drop in the severity of crimes committed by persistent reoffenders after they took an emotional awareness course.
When a user looks at a Tinder profile using the Austin-built app, the watch's built-in monitor starts recording heart rate. If it increases, the profile is liked (pictured), or rejected if the rate drops.
Car firms and phone companies want bigger, more interactive dashboards - but experts say they could be too distracting for drivers.
Computer engineering student James Yoder, from the University of Texas in Austin, has created a web tool that allows users to track all the known pieces of space debris in orbit around our planet. It uses tracking data to show where satellites, the International Space Station and pieces of debris larger than 10cm (4 inches) at any given moment. Most of the debris is clustered in a low orbit around the Earth but the junk stretches out up to 100,000 miles from our planet's surface (as can be seen in the image top right). In the image on the left the red dots represent old rockets, blue are satellites and grey are other pieces of debris. The image on the bottom right shows the orbits Ariane rocket satellite adapters.
SKIN DAMAGE FROM UV LIGHT CAN OCCUR...
play video
WHITE BLOOD CELL SEEN DYING FOR FIRST...
play video
OCULUS RIFT TEASES GAMES AVAILABLE TO...
play video
NEW 'STAR WARS' GAMES REVEALED AT E3:...
play video
FIAT REVEALS 650MPH SUPERCAR POWERED BY...
play video
YOUTUBERS BUILD 'DEATH RAY' IN ATTEMPT...
play video
WATCH THE WORLD'S 'SWARMING' FLIGHT...
play video
SCIENTISTS REVEAL NEW INSIGHT INTO...
play video
NEO: THE 'SMART JAR' THAT HELPS YOU EAT...
play video
HERE'S NEPTUNE DUO: A ANDROID SMARTPHONE...
play video
SKIN DAMAGE FROM UV LIGHT CAN OCCUR...
play video
WHITE BLOOD CELL SEEN DYING FOR FIRST...
play video
Photographer Shane Black captured the phenomenal image near the summit of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii, after stitching together 23 individual frames. In the selfie he can be seen staring down into an active volcano while the moon and Milky Way illuminate the night sky. The 26-year-old said the image reminds him 'how small I am.' The professional photographer has travelled America taking pictures of the stars.
The leaked memos were spotted by fan site 9to5Mac. One is said to be an internal memo sent to Apple staff, while the other is taken from a handout produced by Berkshire-based retailer Waitrose.
Researchers from the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge studied 52 traumatised people who had played Tetris, and those who hadn't.
U the east of the US, the impact of charging EVs does more harm to the environment than gas cars, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh found shrubs in the Arctic tundra, like the willow pictured, are spreading, disrupting how snow reflects heat from the sun.
The feature is called 'Active Phone Cooling' and it directs air from the car's air conditioning unit to a wireless charging vent. It will feature on Detroit-based car manufacturer's 2016 Impala and Malibu.
Director of the FBI James Comey (pictured) said anti-surveillance measures being deployed by Apple and Google will 'inexorably affect my ability to do that job' if they continue to expand.
Staff at controversial firm Hacking Team woke up to the nightmare scenario of its most sensitive affairs being paraded across the internet.
Judges won't know whether songs played are computer-generated or composed by students. The competitions are variations of the 'Turing Test', named after British scientist Alan Turing, left.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Super Soldiers: How Tech Is Transforming The Future Of Warfare is in the latest issue of How It Works Magazine on sale now. It details how soldiers of the future will be trained using virtual reality headsets and their bodies will be protected with self-healing armour and smart wetsuits. Elsewhere, the US military has developed a bullet that changes course on way to its target, and microdrones will help soldiers explore battlefields from a distance. A soldier testing a smart grenade launcher is pictured left, a virtual reality training exercise is pictured top right. In the bottom right image, a US soldier is shown using a fully-immersive virtual reality training system called Dismounted soldier Training System, and inset is Darpa's smart 'wetsuit' Warrior Web.
A review of global data by the University of Southern California has found heart disease to be behind most of the excess deaths documented in adult men.
London based designers Seymourpowell based the carbon fibre Grazor (pictured) on a tricycle with mower blades attached to the front. They say it could come with a £3,000 ($4,630) price tag.
Researchers in Japan have found that differences in the number of oil-secreting glands in the skin explain why wrinkles are shallower in the forehead than in the outer eye area.
Duke researchers analysed medical data from almost a thousand 38 year olds. While some appeared medically in their late 20s, some seemed almost 60.
Its Russian makers say it is a 'fundamentally new electronic warfare system' - but has refused to reveal how the Krasuha-4 system works.
The new application, called RideWith, uses Waze's
navigation system to learn the routes drivers most frequently take to work and match them up with people looking for a ride in
the same direction.
EXCLUSIVE: Exeter University and Cardiff University claim the game can help some people consume 220 fewer calories a day by helping people associate junk food with 'stopping'.
The Japanese inventors of Kuratas, a 15 foot tall robot, have accepted a challenge from a rival US team to fight.
Nasa scientists say they have fixed a glitch that saw them lose contact with the New Horizon's space probe just days before its close encounter with Pluto - and released a new image of four unknown 'black spots' on the dwarf planet. The space agency says the spots have 'captured the imagination of the world.'
Footage shows a man standing in the plane's path dropping to the ground at the last second as the Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 rockets over him with an enormous roar.
YouTube channel EverythingApplePro, who are based in Portland, tested to see how many iPhones it would take to stop a bullet fired from an AK-74 assault rifle.
Researchers at Maynooth University showed language skills are the only area in which children who are cared for by their own extended family outperformed others by the age of three.
Researchers at the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Cambridge have unraveled what causes the strange blue colours on the tips of the seaweed Irish moss (pictured).
Filed by Google last month, the papers reveal the it has successfully tested a mystery device, and rumours suggest its 'GG1' label stands for Google Glass (original headset pictured.)
Nasa scientists Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, insist the space probe will be fully operational again by 7 July well in advance of its fly past of Pluto in a week's time.
The app was created by Exeter-based developer Anthony Kuske. It reveals which Facebook friends have deleted you, since the app was installed, as well as accounts that have been deactivated.
Researchers found half of toddlers can use an iPad when they are just one, with 90 per cent mastering the gadget by their second birthday.
Sam Schmidt (pictured right), who was paralysed from the neck down after crashing during testing in Orlando in 2000, used the car (top left) to navigate the famous twists and turns of Long Beach Grand Prix road course track at 80 mph (129km/h). He drove almost two laps of the 11-turn circuit in the modified 2014 Corvette C7 Stingray, in April, describing the experience as 'unbelievable' and steered by turning his head (bottom left).
The company's top executives, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, made a humorous video in 1987 predicting meteoric growth rate and 'AppleVista' smart glasses (illustrated).
Scientists at the University of Arizona found some workers are consistently idle, doing about half as much work as others in a colony. They marked ants with coloured spots (pictured) to track them.
The Tesla-founder has revealed he is funding 37 research projects to make sure humans can control future robotic systems. He has previously claimed AI could spell the end of humanity.
The study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison reveals how a brain circuit linked with anxiety, involving three specific brain areas, is inherited by studying 600 young rhesus monkeys.
Researchers in Nanjing city in east China have built seven new observation sites to examine animal behaviour, in the hope that any unusual activity will help them predict quakes.
Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's Zoopraxiscope, designers used lasers to beam images onto a cloud (pictured). The research was presented at Leeds Museum at the weekend.
The simulations were led by Michigan State University. They showed that the distant universe could have ten to 100 times less galaxies than thought (Hubble image shown).
The firm was believed to be developing a rose gold handset to be revealed in September - but has now switched to an aluminium pink one with a white face, according to the Wall Street Journal .
The panoramic racing simulator (pictured) is part of a range of game simulators built by Czech company Elsaco. It has four moving legs and three 27-inch 2D LED displays to give a panoramic view plus an accelerator, brake and clutch pedal. The simulator uses data about the position of the car, speed and G-force directly from the game and it moves the cockpit to match these data points.
Differences with skin, hair, fat, insulin and temperature tolerance found in the first genetic comparison between mammoths and modern elephants.
The combination of an exclamation point and a comma was created in 1992, but never caught on and its American inventors let its patent lapse three years later.
An optical illusion has surfaced online in which readers are instructed to stare at the white dot at the centre of a negative of a woman's face. After 15 seconds, look at the white space on the right.
Samsung, as well as fellow manufacturer Oppo, are being sued in China for loading apps onto phones that can't be uninstalled, dubbed 'bloatware'. The Galaxy Note 3 is pictured.
Researchers at Bristol Zoological Society discovered the northern giant mouse lemur (pictured) has the biggest testicles among primates in relation to its body mass.
Researchers from the Insead Business School found that acting sad was better than getting angry in order to get what you want, but they also admitted the tactic might wear a little thin if used too often.
Researchers warn of an 'effectively irreversible' impact on ocean ecosystems and the services they provide, such as fisheries, by 2100.
Polar bears are at risk of dying off if humans don't reverse the trend of global warming, a blunt U.S. government report has warned.
The Lykan Hypersport has been fitted with special cameras allowing it to read numberplates and even scan the faces of drivers at high speed. It boats a 3.7-liter twin-turbo flat-six delivering 740 horsepower, and can reach 62 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds, with a top speed of 245 mph.
Scientists at the University of Manchester analysed the genomes of 45 human populations for the smell receptor OR7D4, which detects the foul smell of androsternone, a pig sex hormone.
Fans of unpasteurised raw milk say it is thicker, creamier and sweeter - but according to the US Centres For Disease Control, it is one of the world's most dangerous foodstuffs.
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed software that predicts asteroids' impact 'corridors' and the risk to communities to raise the profile of possible asteroid strikes on Asteroid Day.
As July 4th celebrations erupt across the country, researchers have revealed the chemical reactions that will cause America to be lit up in red, white and blue (and a few other colours as well).
Sarah Connor, a journalist at The Financial Times in London, was bombarded with comments on Twitter because her name closely resembles the protagonist's in the Terminator films.
Scientists at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) at Colmar pinpointed the gene that switches on an enzyme triggering the flower's sweet smell.
The UVe robot (pictured), designed by engineers in Seattle, disinfects surfaces with waves of ultraviolet light that destroy bacteria and other micro-organisms.
The predictions were made by Oregon-based analyst Andy Hargreaves from Pacific Crest Securities in a research note. He based them on mixed reviews and search terms for the Watch.
Archaeologists found the body of a child or teenager from the 12th or 13th Century AD at a medieval necropolis near Salekhard in Russia 18 miles from the Arctic Circle (shown on the map top right). The image on the left shows them preparing to move the body still inside its birch bark cocoon. Five other bodies found previously at the same site, like the one pictured bottom right, were found to have been mummified as a result of copper plates they were covered with and the permafrost of the arctic. They had been wrapped in furs and are thought to have belonged to an Arctic civilisation with links to Persia, 3,700 miles away.
Researchers from Imperial College London simulated a trading floor and measured hormone levels. In addition to increased levels of testosterone, cortisol levels rose in response to stress.
Professor Simon Conway Morris, a palaeontologist at Cambridge University, argues in a new book that convergent evolution predicts life on other planets would resemble creatures on Earth.
Palaeontologists unearthed a fossil at Bridger Formation in Wyoming that offers clues on how modern 'Jesus lizards' (stock image) evolved.
Seven people have now been attacked by sharks in North Carolina. One expert has claimed that global warming could be playing a part and attracting sharks more north (stock image shown).
Swiss pilot André Borschberg has successfully landed in Hawaii (shown). He spent more than 100 hours alone in the single-seater plane, smashing the longest solo flight record.
Called Semantic Paint, Microsoft used its Kinect camera and augmented reality to develop technology that lets you scan and label objects in 3D before adding colour with hands or feet.
Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul tweeted the Siri Easter Egg (pictured) earlier. When user's ask Siri to divide zero by zero it uses Cookie Monster to discuss the sum.
The U.S. military's new F-35 stealth jet was outperformed by the F-16 model in a dogfight over the Pacific Ocean, despite the fact it has already cost the military more than a trillion dollars to create.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Max Wallis, of Cardiff University, believe 67P (main image) and similar comets could provide homes for living microbes similar to those on earth. The experts go as far as to suggest the comet is more hospitable to life than the Earth's polar regions.Rosetta, the European space craft orbiting the comet, is also said to have detected strange 'clusters' of organic material that look suspiciously like viral particles on its icy surface (inset).
A total of six women will be chosen to make the eight-day 'voyage' locked in a cramped fake spacecraft for the time it takes to fly to the moon, orbit once, and return.
The new £49 handset, pictured, is offered by mobile network EE and despite its low price, the phone's low price it still runs the latest version of Android's operating system 5.1 Lollipop.
MailOnline has recruited specialist Bill Cava to harness the power of Google's artificial intelligence network - turning famous photos into exaggerated psychedelic nightmares.
The new $400 GoPro session has just one button and is half the size of its predecessor - yet captures the same quality of video.
The sensor-packed harness can sense the animal's movement, and the sounds it makes, letting the owner know how they feel.
Primatologists at the University of Oxford were surprised to see a wild female bearded capuchin monkey using sticks and grass to pick her nose until she sneezed and then put the stick in her mouth.
Interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao and co-founder Alexis Ohanian apologized after more than 300 subsections of the discussion board website were turned dark in protest over Victoria Taylor's firing.
Thousands of goods will be offered at slashed prices on Prime Day on July 15, but only shoppers who have subscribed to the website's £59-a-year service will be offered the bargains.
Scientists from France and Switzerland have decided to give the CleanSpace One satellite (illustrated) a cone-shaped net to increase its chances of catching a small defunct satellite called SwissCube.
Five squirrels surprised University of Exeter researchers with the speed at which they solved a puzzle involving hidden hazelnuts.
To complete the test (pictured) by Berkeley-based EnChroma, users identify a coloured number on a different coloured background. At the end, the user is either told they have normal vision or not.
The A26 sub is 207 feet long, and features a 'ghost mode' to make it virtually undetectable when underwater. A special pod allows divers to enter and exit while it is underwater.
Anthropologists at Harvard University in Massachusetts found roasting meat on hot coals as early humans were suspected to have done can kill off most dangerous bacteria.
The Russian Soyuz rocket that blasted off Friday to deliver the Progress ship and its load of supplies docked with the International Space Station on Sunday. It follows a failed attempt by SpaceX.
The U.S. research found those who had eaten the widest variety of uncommon foods - including seitan, beef tongue, Kimchi, rabbit, and polenta, weighed less and were healthier.
A new image shows a phone similar to Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge, with curved sides. Believed to be codenamed Venice, it will be Blackberry's first Android phone.
Aston Martin showed off its track only 'hypercar' at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Just 24 of the 800-plus bhp, all-carbon fibre Aston Martin Vulcans will be made.
You can test your 'superpowers' if you look at a blank white portion of an LCD screen on a computer, tablet or phone, and tilt your head side to side, according to Bristol University.
Researchers from University of New South Wales Australia surveyed 500 gamers. They asked them which violent games they were playing and how interested they were in sex.
The firm is building a fleet of drones capable of flying at 65,000ft (19,800 metres) and staying in the air for months. Now the first details of their communication system have emerged.
Archaeologists at Tel Aviv University studied the remains of elephants at early human sites around the world and found they tended to belong to juveniles, perhaps hunted for their 'sweet' meat.
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have leapt to the defence of the expensive F-35 stealth jet after it was embarrassingly outperformed by a 40-year-old F-16 jet in a dogfight.
Researchers say that mass killings - events with four or more deaths - and school shootings can create a period of 'contagion' that lasts an average of 13 days
Currently, there are no reliable ways to determine the time since death in humans after around 36 hours, or three days, said the University of Salzburg researchers who developed the test.
Dan Diebold said he found the device - complete with a CD drive and a cartridge slot, while rummaging through his dad's old things in Philadelphia. It has been suggested it is the never-released SNES-CD device.
The Dutch car can travel 621 miles on a full charge, and even comes with an app to automatically work out the most efficient routes, taking into account the weather and traffic.
The cat was laid to rest wearing a necklace, or collar made from bear teeth and seashells (pictured) in a mound intended for people, suggesting it was a pet.
The microscopic, water-dwelling flatworm has evolved the unconventional method of self-impregnation in order to procreate 'under conditions of low mate availability,' researchers say.
It has long been known that spiders can 'fly' - using strands of their web silk to catch the wind so that they can travel up to 18 miles per day.
Astronomers at Esa have created two new maps of the Milky Way. Together, the maps could help scientists better understand the process of star formation.
Scientists from the Institute of Earth Sciences Jaume Almera in Barcelona examined ancient pollen in lake sediments in Gran Sabana to claim savannah began to develop before humans lived in the area.
Dutch company Mars One has revealed its plan for Mars colonisation. An independent study was carried out on its proposal for human missions (illustrated), which were found to be 'attainable'.
Experts from the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem say the pottery fragment (pictured) shows three female figures, one of whom is playing an ancient harp.
The footprints were discovered at the Hippos-Sussita archaeological site east of the Sea of Galilee in Israel and are thought to belong to a soldier because they were found in a Roman bastion.
A Dutch artist created the amazing images in a bid to see if different triggers - such as eating a chilli of chopping onions, created a different looking tears.
The four-hour course, which includes group hypnosis, is intended to cure people of arachnophobia, ending with participants holding a tarantula (pictured) - but did it work?
University of Maryland scientists found 18 pits on comet 67P (one shown). They are thought to form when ice evaporates and the surface collapses. Some of them are several hundred metres deep.
The new iBubble version is laid out in columns of connected air pockets, so when you push on it the air just gets pushed into neighbouring bubbles.
Fast-growing Dubai, where something new is always being added to the skyline, may have found a way to make construction cheaper and move even faster.
The bath was found in the 'Ein Kerem neighbourhood of Jerusalem by a family renovating their home. Archaeologists say it provides new insights into the early Jewish community living there.
Dan Diebold said he found the device - complete with a CD drive and a cartridge slot, while rummaging through his dad's old things in Philadelphia. It has been suggested it is the never-released SNES-CD device.
The discovery was made by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France. They found that the yellows in some paintings are turning brown (Matisse painting shown).
Rising temperatures are causing Australian Central Bearded Dragons that are genetically male to hatch as females and give birth to other lizards.
Researchers from Clemson University in South Carolina studied sabre-toothed cat remains to calculate their dagger-shaped canines grew at a rate of six millimetres a month.
The problem, dubbed 'digital amnesia' is a result of our brains adapting to an age where out phone, and the internet, is always always available, scientists say.
The site (pictured) is believed to have launched months ago but has been rising in popularity since a link was posted to Reddit. It is not known if it is social experiment or just a bit of fun.
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.
A toxicologist at the University of Exeter has suggested a new theory for why spending time in the countryside can make us feel better and argues cities may need more green spaces.
A New Zealand firm says it will finally begin selling a personal jetpack next year. The Martin Jetpack has been developed over the past 35 years,and will cost around $150,00.
Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd
Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group
© Associated Newspapers Ltd Contact us How to complain Advertise with us Syndication US Careers at DailyMail.com Terms Privacy policy & cookies
|
|
||
Back