The spacecraft flew within 7,750 miles of Pluto at 12.49pm BST (7.59am EDT), and will send back first high resolution images of the flyby within hours.
Dr Bijoy Khandheria from Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee described animations by the cSound software as similar to 'opening up someone's chest and watching their heart beat.' The software works alongside an ultrasound machine which sends beams of high-frequency sound waves into the body. It then uses their echoes to detect the shapes of internal organs. This clip shows a human heart valve beating.
Researchers have issued a chilling warning that life on Earth is unsustainable for humans unless there are major changes.
The study, by the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, found that, out of 168 cultures from around the world, only 46 per cent of them kiss in the romantic sense.
The fossil Clitellata cocoons were collected from deposits of the La Meseta Formation, on the Marambio Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. This image shows a sperm fragment in the cocoon.
The free blush no more app contains over 250 questions and tips on reading body language. Users can choose their location and type of event and see the best icebreakers.
Scientists say the findings of a laser analysis or pale rocks show they are 'surprisingly similar' to the material found in continents on Earth.
The previously unseen class of particle was first predicted to exist in the 1960s but has eluded physicists it was by Cern's LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Scientists have outlined their alarmingly unhelpful tips on how to survive the earthquake that will hit the Pacific Northwest. The killer quake along Cascadia, a fault line which runs from Cape Mendocino, California, to Vancouver Island, Canada, is 72 years overdue, according to peer-reviewed studies. When - not if - it arrives, sending a 200-foot-tall tsunami over the region, it is unlikely the people of coastal Oregon, Washington and California will be able to escape.
Scientists have cracked a way of calculating the exact number of atoms in 1kg of silicon which may replace the cylinder of metal held in a safe in Paris that is currently used to define the kilogram.
Lentein powder (pictured) made by Parabel in Abu Dhabi, is 68 per cent protein as well as containing fibre.
The findings, by researchers at the University of Stony Brook in New York, challenges beliefs that our hands played a key role in our success as a species.
Employees briefed on the project claim the site is developing a concierge-style system that will help Facebook users find and buy products online.
Using acoustic reflectors the Nepenthes hemsleyana plant guides bats towards it through the jungle in Borneo. It absorbs nitrogen from their poo, while the bats' get a cool place to roost safe from parasites.
Leaked documents from an Italian cyber group recently revealed Adobe Flash has at least three serious vulnerabilities that lets hackers take over anyone's computer.
Japan's Himawari-8 will be used to capture an image every minute to track weather far more accurately. This image, taken in multiple wavelength bands, shows Earth's natural colour (main image) rather that the colourful 'blue marble' we are more used to seeing (inset)
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Dutch company VolkerWessel plan to make roads from recycled plastic and claim the surface could withstand more extreme temperatures than asphalt, between -40C and 80C. The firm claim that their plastic road would be lighter, reducing the load on the ground, and hollow, providing easy access to cables and pipes to run under the surface.
A study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found that women produce 70 per cent less carbon dioxide than men when it comes to driving and other forms of transport.
San Francisco-based Turing Robotic Industries says its Turing Phone enables a protected communications network to keep private information private.
More than 250,000 locations across the UK will accept the contactless payment service (pictured) from today, including M&S;, Boots and on the London transport network.
University of Missouri-Columbia psychologists identified four types of drunk personalities: The Hemingway, the Nutty Professor, the Mary Poppins and the Mr Hyde.
The video, by the American Chemical Society, explains how the bacteria that live on your skin and in your shoes eats your sweat, producing an acid by-product that reeks.
Researchers from Florida State University found that push notifications (illustrated) significantly divert our attention from a task in hand.
Principal investigator, Alan Stern, told DailyMail.com that the close-up images of Pluto will be unlike anything we've ever seen. 'Pluto hasn't let us down. It is a scientific wonderland,' he said.
In New York bars are most likely to have Stella Artois on tap, whereas in Baltimore, Miller Lite appears to be the brew of choice, according to the map by Priceonomics.
Pictured from the air by photographer Thomas Dressler, the vast scale of the bizarre patches of bare earth that scar the grassy Namib desert becomes clear. The images above, captured from a hot air balloon like the one bottom right, and an aircraft, show how they turn the landscape into something resembling the surface of the moon. A group of scientists have now launched a fresh attempt to unravel what is causing these strange circles (shown in the images left and top right) to appear. Locals believe they may be the foot prints left behind by gods or the marks left by dragons breath. Scientists believe in more mundane theories of termites eating vegetation while they nest underground or competition between plants themselves.
The first study of its kind led by experts at the University of Colorado found children are more likely to eat high-calorie foods after watching seemingly overweight cartoon characters.
Russian scientists have spent months studying the huge holes that have appeared, almost overnight in some cases, on the Yamal Peninsula in Russian Siberia.
Five Earth-sized planets so ancient they were born not long after the dawn of time have raised the possibility we could find life on planets far older than we expected.
U.S. government antitrust regulators are looking into claims about whether Apple's treatment of rival streaming music apps is illegal under antitrust law, according to three industry sources.
The algorithm was developed at Brown University. It is designed to help robots better plan their actions in complex environments online and use these skills in the real world.
The iPad Pro is expected to launch in November, according to new claims from Digitimes - although it says Apple has placed a 'relatively low' order for the device with suppliers.
The update which is crucial for texting and emailing was revealed as part of the new iOS 9 operating system for iPads and iPhones, which will be available for users in the fall.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the Mexican cave fish (pictured) is genetically wired to have a big appetite in the same way as obese humans.
Inventors in Boston, Massachusetts, came up with the Lumos helmet that boasts integrated brake lights (shown left), indicators (top right) and distinctive front lights (bottom right) too. Wearers will be able to switch on the indicators using a wireless control on attached to the bike's handlebars.
A hopping robot with a soft body that can bounce has been developed, pictured, by Harvard researchers. It combines the speed of metal robots with the resilience of soft models.
The electronics giant is partnering with the South Korean government to produce the displays, which will boast 2250 pixels per inch, and will go on sale in 2018 according to reports.
The idea was proposed by 14-year-old Danila Kuznetsov from Ukraine. He is one of 90 regional finalists in the annual Google Science Fair.
Pluto, once considered the ninth and outermost planet of the solar system, is bigger than thought, with a diameter of about 1,473 miles (2,370 km), some 50 miles (80 km) wider than previous predictions.
Researchers in Massachusetts found changes in wind speeds as a result of global warming can cause aircraft to burn more fuel, which in turn accelerates climate change.
For the study, led by Nicolas Farrugia from Goldsmiths University, 44 participants aged between 25 and 70 were asked to fill in an online survey.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today said there is now a 90 per cent chance that El Niño will last through the winter and an 80 per cent chance it will last into spring.
The aerospace firm claims a new-type of engine could produce energy-efficient thrust by firing lasers at radioactive material, such as deuterium and tritium.
A team of Harvard astronomers built the map - which covers three quarters of the sky - using data collected from 800 million stars from the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. The researchers have compiled the data into videos which show our galaxy from different angles. One (pictured, above) shows a vast sprawling arm of the Milky Way's spiral structure, looking towards its 'anticentre', which is the name for the point in the sky that is directly opposite the galaxy's centre. Another shows the dust nearby taken from the perspective of an orbit around our own sun, labelled 'Sol'.
Psychologists at the University of Bristol examined the language used on blogs written by climate change skeptics and warn it may be harming the debate on global warming.
If California-based Uber embraced autonomous technology, it could out taxi drivers out of business altogether, many of whom already despise the app.
According to initial reviews in Japan, Pepper (pictured) is charming and considerate. The four-foot (1.2 metre) tall humanoid offers advice but will also 'prattle on and on' making small talk.
The signals are a major boost to the team as they try to establish a secure
line of communication for their historic scientific experiments
on the surface of the comet.
The origin of the picture quiz on Mumsnet, Reddit and Twitter is unknown but it shows 13 groups of emoji designed to represent London tube stations.
Under the plans, it is likely Facebook would share revenue with the record labels like YouTube does. The videos would be chosen by the labels and their performance would be monitored.
The German Supreme Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered the Bundestag to make the UFO files available, but no date has yet been confirmed for their release.
The project, by the German National Metrology Institute, found humans hear sounds from around 8 hertz on - a whole octave lower than had previously been assumed.
USS Independence was used in atomic weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946 and it was scuttled in 1951, loaded with 55-gallon drums of radioactive waste. Researchers first spotted the wreckage and its cargo (shown) in April but now now a nuclear physicist has revealed how radioactive it still is, and how much a threat it poses.
In two separate studies, neuroscientists at Duke University in North Carolina networked the brains of monkeys and rats to make a living computer that can solve problems to complete tasks.
Geologists at Bristol University found the continental crust we live on is getting thinner and could disappear completely. A scene from the film Waterworld is shown.
Sea levels could rise by at least six metres (20 feet) in the long term, swamping coasts from Florida to Bangladesh even if governments achieve their goals for curbing global warming.
Whales and dolphins can become stranded in great numbers, sometimes in hundreds or even thousands. Up to 600 are stranded on British shores each year and we still aren't sure why.
A layer of the Indian and Pacific oceans between 300 and 1,000ft below the surface has been accumulating more heat than previously recognised, a Nasa report claims.
The B61-12 nuclear bomb, which did not have a warhead, was tested at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. The controversial tests are designed to extend the lifespan of the weapon.
Astronomers at the Open University in Milton Keynes said the quintuple star system, shown in the artists impression pictured, is one of the most exotic ever found and may even have planets.
Japanese archaeologists have discovered 24 new geoglyphs on the Nazca Plateau in Peru that were created two centuries earlier that the giant images that the region is famous for.
The calderas are believed to have formed 50 million years ago when supercontinent Gondwana was splitting up into the regions of Australia and New Zealand. They were found, by accident, 125 miles (200 km) off the coast of Sydney by new ship being used by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The RV Investigator detected the volcano cluster at a depth of almost 16,000ft (4,900 km) as it was searching for the nursery grounds of larval lobsters.
Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne claim an injected virus could someday treat a hereditary form of human deafness.
Psychologists from the universities of Pittsburgh and Waterloo found that experiencing physical instability affected judgements about the stability of one's relationships.
A study by the University of Colorado Denver has found that male strippers continue to perform because it makes them feel desirable, rather than simply for the money.
Researchers from the University of Haifa in Israel investigated the chameleon's unusual eyesight by baiting colour-changing lizards with computerised prey projected onto a wall.
The Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) recorded sightings of 1,179 mysterious unexplained crafts in June - an increase from around 600 in the same period last year.
Scientists at the Haifa University in Israel say bonobos skills to make and use tools resemble the technology used by early humans in the Oldowan stone tool culture.
Researchers at Leicester University say giving men specific targets motivates them, even when there is no financial reward. But that same can't be said for women.
According to the Wall Street Journal , the tech giant has ordered between 85 million and 90 million units combined of two new iPhone models with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays.
Archaeologists have unearthed numerous hybrid animals dating back 2,000 years from the site dubbed Duropolis near Winterborne Kingston in Dorset, which were carefully created by the ancient people and buried in store pits beneath their houses. The 'monsters' include sheep with cows' heads (remains pictured left and mock-up on top right) and a cow with a horse's legs (pictured bottom right), which were probably made to placate the gods.
The graphic, by New York-based Body Labs, shows full-body scans of six people with the same BMI but different body shapes to highlight how BMI fails to take into account muscle and bone density.
Discovered at a site in southern Alberta, Canada, Wendiceratops (illustrated) is one of the oldest known members of the large-bodied horned dinosaurs called Ceratopsidae.
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.
It is not known when the icon was updated, but the thought process behind the changes has been explained by Facebook's San Francisco-based design manager Caitlin Winner on Medium.
Researchers analysed fans at a hockey game, and found that when supporters teams were winning, food tasted sweeter.
The details of the patient, known only as WO, have been released by clinical neuropsychologist Dr Gerald Burgess from the University of Leicester. Stock image is shown.
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.
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.
A digital version of the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci can change facial expressions, alter her mouth shape and even cause her chest to rise and fall like she is breathing. The team of artists and computer scientists behind the Living Mona Lisa project say they have even given the painting her own personality. Motion sensors can detect if someone in the room is looking at the painting, allowing it to react by turning the Mona Lisa's head (shown in the image above), frowning or smiling at them.
Staff at controversial firm Hacking Team woke up to the nightmare scenario of its most sensitive affairs being paraded across the internet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The rare phenomenon will lead to a phenomenon known as the 'Maunder minimum' - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London's River Thames to freeze over.
Archaeologists from the National Museum of Denmark and Museum Vestsjælland uncovered the unusual gold spirals (pictured) at Boeslunde in Denmark.
Clyde Tombaugh is set to pass within 7,800 miles of Pluto which he discovered 85 years ago. The astronomer (pictured, with the telescope he used in) has an ounce of his ashes onboard New Horizons.
The new feature allows users to choose the friends and pages they want to see at the top of the news feed first each time you log on.
Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar, of Umeå University in Sweden, has designed a prosthetic arm that is compatible with Lego to help improve the confidence of children living with artificial limbs.
The Solar Impulse 2 (pictured) suffered 'irreversible' damage to its batteries during its flight from Japan to Hawaii and repairs could take 'several weeks to work through.
Astronomers around the world have been able to analyse a massive disturbance near the monster black hole at the centre of galaxy 3C 279 that happened five billion years ago.
High levels of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE) found in the meconium (a newborn's first stool) from a mother's alcohol use during pregnancy can alert doctors that a child is at risk for problems.
Scientists at the University of East Anglia and the University Pompeu Fabra hope the breakthrough will pave the way for safe cannabis-based therapies that have no mind-altering side-effects.
Scientists from The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Aberdeen University calculated a giant panda uses just half half the amount of energy as a stationary human.
French pilot Hugues Duval, pictured in front of his white plane, flew from the French port of Calais to the English shoreline and back last night in a flight heralded as a giant leap in aviation history.
Known as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, some claim the video's soundtrack, which is full or rustles and crunches, gives them pleasure.
Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich say their material (pictured) could be used to produce new super-silent rooms for testing materials or even focus sound like a lens.
A Californian helicopter firm flew over the site of Apple's Campus 2 (pictured) last month and shot aerial views of the building and its 175-acre site as it prepares to open next year.
A patent has just been filed by Zodiac Seats for a new 'Economy Class Cabin Hexagon' which consists of alternating forward and backward facing seats.
Researchers at University College London found that citalopram-takers were willing to pay almost twice as much to prevent harm to others than those given placebo drugs in an experiment.
The zoomable map provides detailed views of landmarks such as Olympus Mons, the largest-known volcano in the solar system, measuring 15 miles (24 km) high.
The video (grab pictured) was recorded by ocean engineer Brennan Phillips and a team of researchers in and around the active underwater volcano Kavachi, near the Solomon Islands.
A handful of Twitter users have shared pictures of rashes and 'burns' they say are caused by Apple's Watch.
The black and white images are believed to have been taken from the USS Trepang SSN 674 submarine as it travelled between Iceland and Norway's Jan Mayen Island.
This image, presented today at the Royal Astronomical Society's National astronomy meeting in Llandudno, Wales, was taken by NASA's NuSTAR telescope.
The Hydrofoil minidrones (Orak pictured), from French firm Parrot, sail at 10km/h (6mph or 5.4 knots) on water before taking off and flying at 11mph (18km/h).
Super Soldiers: How Tech Is Transforming The Future Of Warfare is in the latest issue of How It Works Magazine on sale now. A stock image of a soldier is pictured.
A University of Glasgow team has identified traces of the gem known on Earth as 'fire opal' (pictured) within a Martian meteorite. The find could help future missions decide where to look for evidence of life.
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 UK Space Agency has said it wants to take a giant leap into manned space missions with its first strategy for human spaceflight. It plans to send astronauts to the ISS and even to Mars.
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.
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.
Sam Schmidt, who was paralysed from the neck in 2000, used the car to navigate the famous twists and turns of Long Beach Grand Prix road course track at 80 mph (129km/h).
The data comes from an ongoing study by the University of Adelaide that has found most European are a mix of three ancient populations; hunter-gatherers, Neolithic farmers and pastoralists.
A group of biologists, nautical engineers and biologists, backed by Paypal founder Peter Thiel plans on building a floating city, or 'seastead' by 2020, but the location has yet to be decided.
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.
Psychologists at Rice University in Houston Texas wanted to see if the latest mobile technology would be used by the students (stock image) to improve their learning.
WARNING: Do not watch if you suffer from photosensitive epilepsy or are sensitive to flashing lights. The illusion is designed to show how colour is a construct of the mind.
The Lykan Hypersport has been fitted with special cameras allowing it to read numberplates and even scan the faces of drivers at high speed.
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.
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.
A Texas man named Philip Oliveira claims to have found a legendary chupacabra on May 31 but experts say it's merely just a coyote with mange.
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.
SpaceX and Boeing are aiming for test flights to the space station by 2017. It will be the first launch of astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida, since the space shuttles retired in 2011.
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.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Max Wallis, of Cardiff University, believe 67P (pictured) and similar comets could provide homes for living microbes similar to those on earth.
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.
Its Russian makers say it is a 'fundamentally new electronic warfare system' - but has refused to reveal how the Krasuha-4 system works.
The firm hopes millionaires and hotels will use the 'SeaScape' which even has an underwater bedroom built in.
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.
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 microscopic, water-dwelling flatworm has evolved the unconventional method of self-impregnation in order to procreate 'under conditions of low mate availability,' researchers say.
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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