Did the Americans beat Sputnik to space? Underground nuke test may have launched MANHOLE COVER into orbit 

Did the Americans beat Sputnik to space? Underground nuke test may have launched MANHOLE

During Operation Plumbbob (pictured), the codename for nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in 1957, an underground detonation blew a manhole cover into the air at five times Earth's escape velocity. The Americans launched their first official satellite, Explorer I, in 1958, and the history books will tell you that the Soviet Union got there first with Sputnik. But the location of the manhole cover from the nuclear weapons test in the Nevada desert in 1957 remains a mystery.

First borns really ARE smarter - but only by a single IQ point, find researchers

Kim KARDASHIAN and Kourtney KARDASHIAN at the Dorchester who are promoting their "Kollection" for Dorothy Perkins, Pictured with Philip Green

First born children are smarter than their siblings - but only by a tiny margin, researchers have found in the biggest every study of sibling intelligence and personality.

2014 was Earth's warmest on record, and ocean temperatures are 'just ridiculous' warns annual health report for the planet

In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth?s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several  markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases - setting new records.  These key findings and others can be found in the State of the Climate in 2014 report released online today by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

The report, compiled by NOAA?s Center for Weather and Climate at the National Centers for Environmental Information is based on contributions from 413 scientists from 58 countries around the world (highlight, full report). It provides a detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space.  

?This report represents data from around the globe, from hundreds of scientists and gives us a picture of what happened in 2014. The variety of indicators shows us how our clim

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society's annual state of the climate report concludes that the Earth is 'gravely ill'.

Terrifying video shows home-made drone 'made by a teenager' equipped with a HANDGUN opening fire in the woods

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Footage, apparently by drone enthusiast Austin Haughwout, 18, from Clinton, Connecticut, shows a robotic device with four rotor engines firing four shots in succession.

Is the Gigafactory getting even bigger? Tesla TRIPLES the amount of land it owns at superfactory battery site in Nevada

Founder, Elon Musk, has just confirmed that he has nearly tripled Tesla's Nevada land purchases near Reno, adding 1,893 acres to the 1,000 it got hold of last year.

Instagram bans users from searching for photos tagged as 'curvy' - but continues to allow images labeled with 'skinny', 'thin', and even 'anorexia' 

The social media platform claims that pictures tagged with the word 'curvy' often violate its nudity policies - but risqué searches like #nipplepiercing and #noclotheson are still allowed.

Is the Lexus hoverboard real? New footage of levitating gadget revealed (but we STILL don't get to see anyone riding it)

Lexus hoverboard video revealed but we STILL don't see anyone riding it

The new video stars Ross McGouran, a professional skateboarder, who says riding the Lexus Slide is 'like floating on air'. The board supposedly uses electromagnetism to levitate itself. McGouran is billed as a 'hoverboard test pilot' - but the footage stops short of showing him actually riding the board.

Neil Young pulls his music from ALL streaming services claiming they have 'worst sound quality in history'

Singer-songwriter Neil Young posing for a portrait at The Carlyle hotel in New York. 
Young has raised more than $6 million through a Kickstarter campaign to fund his digital music project PonoMusic. Kickstarter closed the campaigne Tuesday after raising 6.2 million through 18,000 supporters. The campaign is the third most funded project for Kickstarter.




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Neil Young has become the latest artist to pull his music from streaming services - but rather than arguing over money, he says the sound quality isn't good enough.

Do MOUNTAINS hold the key to why animals started walking on land? Shifting plates may have affected ocean nutrients forcing fish to crawl out of the water

Scientists at the University of Tasmania have found nutrient levels washed into the oceans over the past 700 million years are linked to explosions in life and extinction events.

It's official! Speaking more than one language makes you smarter: Bilingual people have more grey matter than those who only know their mother tongue

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre found that being bilingual increases the size of the part of the brain responsible for attention span and short term memory.

Why are screams so spine-tingling? Scans reveal they activate the same 'fear circuits' in the brain as smoke alarms

Using an MRI scanner, researchers analysed the brains of people listening to screams at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt. The sound activates the fear response in the amygdala.

Mammals went through an 'explosion' of evolution while dinosaurs roamed the Earth

Rapid evolutionary changes reached their peak in the middle of the Jurassic period, between 200 million and 145 million years ago, according to University of Oxford scientists.

The butt of the joke: Internet wags poke fun at Pluto with a wave of out-of-this-world memes including comparing it to Kim Kardashian's rear

Within hours of the photographs being released by NASA, online jokers took to Twitter and other social media to spread manipulated images of the dwarf planet.

What's next for New Horizons? Probe may be first to venture into icy Kuiper Belt surrounding our solar system after historic Pluto mission

New Horizons may become first spacecraft to visit Kuiper Belt after Pluto mission

Nasa is to consider sending the New Horizons probe to one of two frozen objects, like the one shown in the artists impression top right, in the ring of debris orbiting four billion miles from the sun. The spacecraft has power to last 20 more years and could even travel out of our solar system into interstellar space (illustrated in the graphic on the left). The first images beamed back to Earth by New Horizons following its close encounter with Pluto earlier this week have revealed mountains of ice towering around 11,000 feet high (shown in the image bottom right).

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Welcome to Iceworld: Stunning first hi-def image of Pluto reveals huge 11,000 foot mountains made of water ice and a geologically active surface 

First Pluto pictures in hi-def by Nasa reveals foot mountains made of water ice

A historic image of Pluto, with 10 times the resolution of anything ever seen before, has been unveiled by Nasa, after the New Horizons probe made a successful flyby of the dwarf planet yesterday. The image shows mountains that likely formed no more than 100 million years ago - mere youngsters relative to the 4.56-billion-year age of the solar system - and may still be in the process of building. That suggests the close-up region, shown in relation to Pluto on the bottom right, covers less than one percent of Pluto's surface, may still be geologically active today, and experts believe it could still have geysers and even volcanic activity. The top right image shows a glimpse of one of Pluto's moons, Charon.

Inside the Japanese hotel where the front desk is staffed by ROBOTS and guests scan their faces to enter rooms

A menacing-looking dinosaur, a humanoid with blinking lashes, and a small android greet guests at Nagasaki's Weird Hotel - the latest oddity in a country known for its quirky hotels.

Sperm grown in a lab used to create an 'army of half cloned mice': Man-made cells can be mass produced to fertilise eggs

Scientists at the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences created man-made sperm (pictured), which although cannot swim, is able to fertilise eggs and produced litters of semi-cloned mice.

World's oldest lizard embryo discovered: 125-million-year-old 'baby' found inside fossil

Scientists used synchrotron X-ray scanning to peer inside tiny fossil eggs (pictured) found in north east Thailand. They found the embryo of a lizard from the Cretaceous period.

'How tall is Bruce Jenner? Caitlyn Jenner is 6ft 2': Siri is correcting users who refer to the Olympic athlete by her previous name 

Apple's voice recognition program has updated its software so if users ask their iPhone or iPad about the Olympic gold-medal winning athlete, the answer will always refer to Caitlyn.

The house that doubles as a POWER STATION: Three-bedroom positive energy home has solar panels and a heat pump

The low-cost three-bedroom family home, designed by experts led by Cardiff University, integrates technology to reduce energy demand, while generating and storing renewable energy.

Watching porn on mobiles set to soar: The average phone owner will view 348 adult videos during 2015

The figures were taken from Hampshire-based Juniper Research's Digital Adult Content report. It predicts that more than 136 billion adult videos will be watched in 2015.

If you see this, it's a con: Scammers freeze iPad and iPhone users' internet browsers then demand $80 to fix it

EXCLUSIVE: The issue - which affects both American and British users, sees a 'crash report' message pop up while users are on the Safari internet app and asks users for cash to fix it.

Friend or foe? Lack of sleep impairs our ability to read people's faces - and makes us wrongly imagine threats

The findings could be one of the reasons why people who get too little sleep are 'less social and more lonely', the researchers from the University of California-Berkeley said.

The terrifying 'bloodthirsty giant peacock': New species of 5ft long winged dinosaur discovered - and it hints that Velociraptors were covered in feathers too

New species of winged dinosaur called Zhenyuanlong suni discovered

The new dinosaur, Zhenyuanlong suni (pictured, artists impression), was found fossilised in China. It lived during the Cretaceous Period around 125 million years ago and had short, bird-like wings but could not fly. The species may have evolved from ancestors that could fly and used its wings solely for display purposes, in a similar way to how peacocks use their colourful tails.

Beachgoers beware! The sand you're sitting on might be covered in POO: Faecal matter is more common on the shore than in the sea, study reveals

Researchers at the University of Hawaii found that microbial communities tended to decay much slower in beach sand than in sea water when simulated in the lab using sewage.

Is Pluto about to become the most TERRIFYING place in the solar system? Names of demons and underworld gods proposed for features on the dwarf planet

Scientists behind the New Horizons mission say the spacecraft obtained a 'waterfall of data' during its close encounter with Pluto and the first images are expected at 8pm BST today.

Caveman's 14,000-year-old dentist drill is discovered: Skeleton shows Stone Age man had infected tooth filed away with flint tool 

Researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy discovered a tiny flint tool called a microlith in the skeleton of a caveman who lived 14,000 years ago and died of a toothache infection.

Would YOU take fashion advice from a robot? Researchers develop a mathematical model that can help you get dressed 

The technology, developed by Spain's Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, uses data from 144,000 user posts from fashion website chictopia.com.

Is modern life making YOU deaf? Game puts your hearing skills to the test as you navigate around virtual worlds

The challenge was created by Manchester-based hearing experts Amplifon. Called The Art of Hearing, it is an immersive site in which users must navigate around 360° landscapes.

Apple's iPod gets a makeover: Firm launches an updated range of players in new colours and sizes

The new models are available in gold, pink and blue (pictured), while the updated Touch features a new 8MP iSight camera and the Apple-designed A8 chip.

Watch the $3.5bn F-35 stealth jet fire its hidden 'wing cannons' (but it won't have the software to fire them in the air until 2019)

Watch the $3.5bn F-35 fire its hidden 'wing cannons' in video

The $350m F-35 recently lost out to an F-16, but new footage reveals its 'hidden' 20mm wing cannons in action, showing off its firepower - although the software need to use them won't arrive until 2019.

The regions that don't kiss: Study reveals how more than half the world DOESN'T smooch - and some even find it disgusting

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.

Dawn of the GM baby? Cure for deadly mitochondrial disease is on the horizon - but it involves cloning

The breakthrough by Oregon Health and Science University scientists, offers hope to families by mitochondrial disease but also raises the spectre of babies being cloned to order.

Would you fit solar panels to your PHONE? Expandable solar-powered 'paper' could finally solve your gadget's battery woes

The Solar Paper (pictured), from Chicago-based Yolk is just 1.5mm thick, 6.7-inches long and weighs 120g. In direct sunlight it charges an iPhone 6 in about 2.5 hours.

Could roads made from PLASTIC spell the end of potholes? Recycled bottles could finally end the scourge of every motorist

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.

Google and Mozilla pull the plug on Adobe Flash: Tech giants disable the program on browsers following 'critical' security flaw

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.

How your SMARTPHONE could diagnose you with depression: Using it for 68 minutes a day 'may be a sign of mental illness'

When using their phones, people are more likely to avoid thinking about things that are troubling or painful - an avoidance technique seen in depressed people, Northwestern University researchers said.

A home from home: Curiosity finds Martian crust that reveals red planet is far more like Earth than thought

The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA?s Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth?s granitic continental crust rocks. This is the first discovery of a potential ?continental crust? on Mars.

"Along the rover?s path we have seen some beautiful rocks with large, bright crystals, quite unexpected on Mars? said Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory, lead scientist on the ChemCam instrument. ?As a general rule, light-colored crystals are lower density, and these are abundant in igneous rocks that make up the Earth?s continents.?

Mars has been viewed as an almost entirely basaltic planet, with igneous rocks that are dark and relatively dense, similar to those forming the Earth?s oceanic crust, Wiens noted. However, Gale crater, where the Curiosity rover landed, contains fragments of very ancient igneous rocks (around 4 billion years old) that are distinctly light in color, which were analyze

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 world's playlists revealed: Spotify's interactive map plots the artists that are trending in London, New York, Sydney and beyond

The map features 1000 city-specific playlists that reveal the unique music tastes from each area. Updated every two weeks, the map analyses 20 billion tracks listened to by Spotify users.

Bringing the fantasy world of Game of Thrones to life: Video reveals behind the scenes secrets of the show's visual effects

CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS: The video was compiled by London-based studio Mackevision. It reveals how visual effects and green screens were used to bring Game of Thrones to life including the city of Braavos and the House of Black and White. Mackevision is one of the VFX studios that was involved in producing the effects for the fifth season of Sky and HBO's show.

The 'unhackable' Turing Phone: New Android handset made of 'liquid metal' encrypts information in apps

San Francisco-based Turing Robotic Industries says its Turing Phone enables a protected communications network to keep private information private.

Are women the key to solving CLIMATE CHANGE? Females produce less pollution than men when travelling, study reveals

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.

Are humans more primitive than chimps? Our dexterous hands have actually evolved LESS than the great apes

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.

Behold the PENTAQUARK! Large Hadron Collider discovers new particle that has eluded scientists since the 1960s

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.

Are Shrek, Homer Simpson and Porky Pig making children FAT? Overweight cartoon characters encourage young people to gorge on junk food, study warns 

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.

Facebook wants to give your a PA: 'Moneypenny' could help you find and buy goods online using Messenger

Employees briefed on the project claim the site is developing a concierge-style system that will help Facebook users find and buy products online.

We've got Taylor Swift, but what is the rest of the UNIVERSE listening to? Map reveals how long it takes radio waves to travel through space - with distant stars only just tuning in to 40s jazz

Map reveals how long it takes radio waves to travel through space

Called Lightyear.fm, the project was created by New York-based computer designers Brian Moore and Chris Baker with Mike Lacher and Mikhail Chernov. Put simply, radio waves travel at the speed of light which means that songs which are one light year from Earth were roughly released a year ago. Using Billboard chart data from The Whitburn Project, the designers worked out the best-selling hits from the past 110 years and the map takes users through the solar system and Milky Way playing songs based on when they were released, and the distance in the universe the map is showing. At the start of the animation, Fifth Harmony's Worth It starts playing and the animation centres on Earth's orbit (inset). At 31 light-years from Earth, when songs from the mid-1980s including Wham's Wake Me UP Before You Go-Go would only just be arriving, the animation reaches the constellation Ursa Major. 61 Ursae Majoris at 31 is pictured main.

The exoplanets that hint at life billions of years older than Earth: Five new planets raises possibility of super-advanced civilisations

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.

Outrage at Apple Pay in the UK: Mobile phone payment service launches...but not all banks are signed up yet

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.

World's oldest fossilised SPERM found in Antarctica: 50-million-year-old cocoon reveals clues to how worms evolved

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.

Mystery of Siberia's 200ft-deep craters solved: Enormous holes were formed by methane eruptions triggered by melting permafrost

Russian scientists have spent months studying the huge holes that have appeared, almost overnight in some cases, on the Yamal Peninsula in Russian Siberia.

Apple announces updates for its new operating system... including a tiny change to the keyboard that everyone has been waiting for

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.

Why your phone is driving you to distraction: The sound of a text alert 'can divert our attention as much as reading it'

Researchers from Florida State University found that push notifications (illustrated) significantly divert our attention from a task in hand.

The app that could banish awkward silences: Blush No More can suggest the perfect icebreaker (and even help you read body language)

One of the top tech PR firms in NYC launches a new mobile app that ends those awkward silent moments.
New York, NY, July 13, 2015	(Newswire) - One of the top tech PR firms in NYC - Macias PR - just launched a new mobile app that can get anyone into the conversation.
 No one wants to be in those awkward silent moments when you run out of things to say. Blush No More is your cheat sheet to conversation. MARK MACIAS, MACIAS PR
The communications app, Blush No More, provides users with thought-provoking questions that eliminate those awkward silent moments.
The free mobile app is essentially a cheat sheet that provides thought-provoking and fun questions for any situation or location.
The questions were inspired by journalists who are trained to get information out of people. Here are some of their favorite questions they use to drive the conversation forward.
At a networking event: ?What?s your superpower over your competitors??
At a dinner party: ?If you could trade places with anyone a

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.

Boing! Hopping robot can bounce SIX times its body height - and could one day help scout out disaster zones

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.

Is this Britain's oldest town? Iron Age settlement dating back to 100BC that was home to hundreds of Celts unearthed

Iron Age settlement in Dorset dating back to 100BC was home to hundreds of Celts

The previously unknown of settlement dubbed Duropolis at Winterborne Kingston, near Blandford, Dorset, dates to around 100BC, which makes it 80 years earlier than Colchester in Essex. Colchester is widely regarded as Britain's oldest recorded town.Students from Bournemouth University have excavated the remains of 16 Iron Age roundhouses (pictured) but have 'barely scratched the surface' of the site which is believed to contain well over 200 domestic structures.

Not such a dwarf after all: New Horizons probe finds Pluto is bigger than predicted

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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.

Global warming forcing planes to spend up to 11 minutes longer in the air battling strong winds

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.

So that's why we get 'ear worms'! The shape and size of your brain could be why tunes get stuck in your head

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.

Forget about 4k and even 8k TVs, Samsung is developing an 11k 'super-resolution' display... But will it be pixel overload?

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.

A massive El Nino is coming! Forecasters say 'strong' weather event could bring relief to drought-stricken California

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 megapad is coming: Apple's iPad Pro with 12.9inch pressure sensitive screen set to launch in November

Craig Federighi, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering speaks during an event introducing new iPads at Apple's headquarters on October 16, 2014 in Cupertino, California.  


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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 end of taxi drivers? Uber wants to buy all of Tesla's self-driving cars, rumours suggest

If California-based Uber embraced autonomous technology, it could out taxi drivers out of business altogether, many of whom already despise the app.

Who knew frying an egg could blow your mind! Video reveals the strange electromagnetic power of an induction HOB

Cooking with the strange electromagnetic power of an induction HOB

Induction hobs work because 'inside the stove plate you have an electromagnet that spins around and turns the pan into the element,' according to the video's maker in South Africa. The video features half a saucepan. Eggs (pictured main), chocolate and bacon (pictured inset) are placed in the half pan to show that they cook quickly when touching a metal cooking pot, but stay raw when placed directly on the induction hob.

How MINECRAFT is teaching robots to do the laundry: Complex 'thought' processes needed for game help machines learn skills

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.

What it's like to live with Pepper the 'emotional' robot: Humanoid gives compliments, offers advice and 'prattles on'

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.

Philae phones home: Lander finally makes contact after two weeks of silence 

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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.

Could German UFO files finally reveal whether aliens have visited Earth? Court forces government to release top secret documents

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 science behind stinky feet: Video reveals the processes that cause a nasty stench, and how to stop it 

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.

Rat super-brain brings cyborgs closer to reality: 'Brainet' lets rodents sync their thoughts to create a 'living computer' and solve problems collectively

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.

Kevin Costner was right! Earth could become a Waterworld... but don't worry, it won't happen for another two billion years

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.

Is this the future of airports? Runways could be built in CITY CENTRES with planes taking off above streets

Stockholm airport could be built above city streets in Utopian air travel plans

To cope with the growing demand of air travel, one London-based designer believes runways raised above streets and waterways could be the future. Alex Sutton's designs take the structure of an airport on the outskirts, and move it into the heart of everyday life. This sees planes coming into land on raised runways that scythe through the city centre.

Have the oceans been HIDING the true scale of global warming? Nasa warns heat hasn't disappeared, it's just been buried in the sea

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.

Air force drops dummy nuclear bomb in Nevada in first controversial test to update cold war arsenal

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? The United States Air Force (USAF) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) completed the first development flight test of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada on July 1, 2015. 

?This test marks a major milestone for the B61-12 Life Extension Program, demonstrating end-to-end system performance under representative delivery conditions,?  said NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Dr. Don Cook.  ?Achieving the first complete B61-12 flight test provides clear evidence of the nation's continued commitment to maintain the B61 and provides assurance to our allies.?

The flight test asset consisted of hardware designed by Sandia National and Los Alamos National Laboratories, manufactured by the National Security Enterprise Plants, and mated to the USAF tail-kit assembly, designed by The Boeing Company. This test is the first of three development flight tests for the B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP), with two additional de

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.

Beat that Tatooine! Solar system with FIVE stars discovered orbiting each other 250 light years from Earth

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.

Giant Llamas and flames found among 24 new images at Peru's Nazca Lines

The research team of the Yamagata University Institute of Nasca discovered 24 new geoglyphs in the Nasca Region of the Peruvian South Coast during the survey conducted between December 2014 and February 2015.

The geoglyphs are almost invisible on the surface and the team needed to analyze them using a three-dimensional scanner to highlight the images on the ground. As a result, the Yamagata University team was able to identify 24 geoglyphs of animals, some of which probably depict Andean native camelid, llamas. Last year, the team had discovered 17 geoglyphs of similar style in the adjacent area and thus it became clear the total of 41 animal geoglyphs are concentrated in a specific area. These geoglyphs are estimated to date back to 400 BC to 200 BC.

Prof. Masato Sakai, the head of the research team, emphasized that the geoglyphs are in danger of being destroyed by the recent expansion of urban areas and it is important to share this information with local people and government to

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.

Could binge-eating FISH shed light on human obesity? Greedy animal shares gene mutation with fat people

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.

Why do so many whales die on British beaches? Bad weather, military sonar and toxic chemicals can all lead to stranding

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.

Facebook ISN'T launching a streaming service...but the site does want to add music videos to News Feeds

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.

Is your wonky chair making you worry about your LOVE LIFE? Unstable seats leave people feeling insecure about relationships

Psychologists from the universities of Pittsburgh and Waterloo found that experiencing physical instability affected judgements about the stability of one's relationships.

Can YOU hear wind farms? Researchers prove human hearing is better than thought and 'turbine phenomenon' is real

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.

Bonobos give a glimpse back in time to Stone Age man: Apes seen making wooden spears, daggers and stone shovels like our human ancestors

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.

The most hi-tech car ever? New Mercedes E-Class will have everything from self parking through an app to the ability to communicate with nearby cars to find out what the traffic is like

Mercedes E-Class will have everything including self parking through an app

With everything from a self driving mode to stereo speakers that protect your hearing in a crash and its own network to talk to other cars, Mercedes says its new car will be the safest it has ever made. It will even be able to park itself into tight spots and be summoned at the touch of a button - and won't even need a key as it can use its owner's smartphone instead.

Have we found 'solar system 2.0'? Jupiter's twin spotted orbiting a sun like our own, and it could help create conditions for life

Using the Eso 3.6-metre in Chile, an international team of astronomers has spotted a planet with a 'very similar mass to Jupiter' 186 light-years away orbiting a sun-like star, named HIP 11915.

The tiny beating heart grown from STEM CELLS - and scientists say other organs could be on the way

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When spatially confined, differentiating human induced pluripotent stem cells self-organize into cardiac microchambers. Myofibroblasts are green, cardiomyocytes are red and the nuclei are blue. Cardiac microchambers can be used to study the toxicity of drugs that affect early human heart development.

The new hearts will allow new drugs to be tested, and give researchers a new insight into how the heart develops. The tiny heart even has a microchamber, and can 'beat' like a full sized heart.

The superfood that tastes of BACON: Scientists create strain of dulse seaweed that is packed with antioxidants but tastes of pork

Researcher Chris Langdon and colleagues at Oregon State University's (OSU) Hatfield Marine Science Center have created and patented a new strain of dulse (pictured) that tastes like bacon.

Get ready for SUPER-CHOCOLATE: Researchers find same brewing process used in beer production can boost flavours 

Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium claim the same species of yeast in beer, known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, can be used to improve the flavour of chocolate.

Stunning Viking sword unearthed: Warrior who brandished the ornate weapon may have been chosen by King Canute for English battles

The weapon was pulled from a grave in a Viking burial ground in southern Norway by archaeologists from the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo.

A glimpse beneath the bandages: Egyptian child mummy gets a CT scan in a bid to uncover its secrets

An ancient Egyptian child mummy is undergoing the investigative but non-invasive process at St Bernward hospital in Hildesheim, Germany.

Forget heart monitors and pedometers, Samsung just patented a way to measure your BODY FAT using just your smartphone

The patent includes illustrations that show a user gripping a phone with both hands to activate the sensor. Four panels must be covered by the user that will be built into the phone or the phone case.

Human civilisation is 'unsustainable' unless we begin protecting Earth's plant life, researchers warn

A view of Earth taken from the Apollo 13 spacecraft.

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Researchers have issued a chilling warning that life on Earth is unsustainable for humans unless there are major changes.

Is organic farming making climate change worse? Demand for 'sustainable' food has increased greenhouse gas emissions 

A study by researchers at the University of Oregon found carbon emissions from organic farming have increased per acre of land since 2000 and may be due to the shift to large scale practices.

Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will 'go to sleep' in 2020 and could cause temperatures to plummet

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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.

Did these volcanoes tear Australia and New Zealand apart? Discovery of 50-million-year-old caldera reveals clues

The calderas off the coast of Sydney are believed to have formed 50 million years ago when supercontinent Gondwana was splitting up into the regions of Australia and New Zealand.

Forget invisibility cloaks, now there's a cloaking CARPET: Teflon-based material could make objects beneath undetectable

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, said they can fine tune the way light is reflected off their 'carpet' so it mimics the surface beneath and hide objects in between (illustrated).

'This is the most science fiction-looking world you'll ever see': New Horizons' mission lead reveals how Pluto could change our view of the solar system

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.

Ancient MONSTER graveyard unearthed: Celts created hideous beasts using dead animal parts as offerings to the gods

Archaeologists have unearthed numerous hybrid animals dating back 2,000 years from the site dubbed Duropolis near Winterborne Kingston in Dorset.

The United States of Beer: Map reveals the most likely brew to be served in each state 

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.

Riddle of the 2,000 gold spirals: Bronze Age 'springs' are unearthed in Denmark and may have been part of a priest king's costume

Archaeologists from the National Museum of Denmark and Museum Vestsjælland uncovered the unusual gold spirals (pictured) at Boeslunde in Denmark.

Reinventing the kilogram? Official unit of weight measurement could get new accurate definition following breakthrough

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.

Will the mystery of Namibia's fairy circles ever be solved? Stunning images reveal astonishing extent of baffling grass rings

Pictured from the air by photographer Thomas Dressler, the vast scale of the patches of bare earth that scar the grassy Namib desert becomes clear. Scientists are now trying to unravel the mystery.

Watch a heart beat in 'extreme 4D': Revolutionary software can reveal exactly how blood is flowing around the body

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.'

Nasa snaps the brighest flare ever seen (although it actually happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away)

Unlabeled version. Blazar 3C 279's historic gamma-ray flare can be seen in this image from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA's Fermi satellite. Gamma rays with energies from 100 million to 100 billion electron volts (eV) are shown; for comparison, visible light has energies between 2 and 3 eV. The image spans 150 degrees, is shown in a stereographic projection, and represents an exposure from June 11 at 00:28 UT to June 17 at 08:17 UT.
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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.

Commodore makes a comeback! Brand to launch Android smartphone that will let users play iconic games

Two Italian entrepreneurs are re-launching the Commodore brand with an Android smartphone including two emulators so classic video games can be played.

Could this bicycle helmet save lives? Lumos has brake lights and indicators to make cyclists' intentions clear to drivers

Inventors in Boston, Massachusetts, came up with the Lumos helmet that boasts integrated brake lights, indicators and distinctive front lights too.

Baby's first POOP can reveal if mother's drank alcohol during pregnancy - and if their child will suffer intelligence problems in later life because of it

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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.

The carnivorous plant that uses SONAR to coax bats to roost inside it... so it can eat their POO

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.

Does watching this video of a barista make an iced latte give YOU a 'braingasm'? Latest 'supersensory'  hit video revealed

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Known as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, some claim the video's soundtrack, which is full or rustles and crunches, gives them pleasure.

Quantum of silence: New material could produce super-sound proofing that allows noise to pass in only one direction

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.

Apple's 'spaceship' readies for take off: Aerial footage reveals how the circular Campus 2 headquarters is taking shape

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.

Thought economy class couldn't get any worse? The horrifying hexagonal seating that means you FACE other passengers

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.

Forget Street View, Nasa's new 'crater view' of Mars lets you journey around the red planet in high-resolution

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.

Radioactive WWII wreckage discovered off Californian coast: Aircraft carrier and its nuclear cargo are 'amazingly intact'

Researchers first spotted the wreckage (shown) and its cargo in April but now now a nuclear physicist has revealed how radioactive it still is, and how much of a threat it poses.

Could planes be powered by lasers and nuclear explosions? Boeing patent reveals radical 'fusion' engine design

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.

Shark-CANO! Sharks are filmed swimming inside the crater of an active volcano 150ft underwater

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.

Apple feeling the burn: Watch wearers take to Twitter to share photos of rashes 'caused by the device'

A handful of Twitter users have shared pictures of rashes and 'burns' they say are caused by Apple's Watch.

NASA's breathtaking new picture of the sun makes it look like a giant marble

epa04837534 A NASA handout made available on 08 July 2015 shows flaring, active regions of the sun highlighted in this new image combining observations from several telescopes. High-energy X-rays from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) are shown in blue; low-energy X-rays from Japan's Hinode spacecraft are green; and extreme ultraviolet light from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is yellow and red. All three telescopes captured their solar images around the same time on 29 April 2015. The NuSTAR image is a mosaic made from combining smaller images.  EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/JAXA HANDOUT   EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

This image, presented today at the Royal Astronomical Society's National astronomy meeting in Llandudno, Wales, was taken by NASA's NuSTAR telescope.

The drone gets its sea legs: £120 hydrofoil-quadcopter seamlessly films from the air and on water - but it only reaches a top speed of 11mph

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).

Rise of the SUPER SOLDIER: Liquid armour, indestructible exoskeletons and weapons that never miss revealed as the future of warfare

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.

Could Martian GEMS contain fossilised aliens? Scientists say opal may hold the key to proving life existed on the red planet

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.

Apple makes ANOTHER U-turn: Firm reveals it is working to have Home Sharing on iOS 9 after feature vanished during recent update

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).

Will a Briton be the first person on MARS? UK pledges to send humans into space for the first time and sets sights on red planet

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.

Desperate to date a celebrity? Tinder launches verified profiles for users

Tinder introduces verified accounts

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.

Climate change deniers are conspiracy theorists and are damaging the public debate on global warming, study claims

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.

Take a peek inside the iPhone 6S: Leaked image reveals clues about the inner workings of Apple's next-generation device

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.

Plankton are eating PLASTIC: Feasting on ocean litter could devastate marine ecosystems, scientists warn

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.

Quadriplegic former Indy Racing driver takes to the wheel again: Modified Corvette enables him to steer using his head and brake by 'sipping' on a straw

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).

Seas could rise 6 metres even IF governments curb global warming: Study says ocean changes have 'already begun'

A general view of the Paradise Bay in Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.

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.

How much of a caveman are YOU? Interactive tool reveals the amount of hunter-gatherer DNA in your family tree

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.

Will cities of the future FLOAT? $167 million project using concrete platforms could be home to 300 people by 2020

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.

Would YOU share your home with Buddy? Housekeeper robot that even plays hide and seek with the kids to launch in 2016

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.

Watch the Mona Lisa come to life: Interactive version of masterpiece sees her frown, turn her head, and even breathe

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.

What do YOU see? Black and white video can fool your brain into viewing COLOR

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.

Abu Dhabi's new 245mph 'robocop car' costs $3.4m and has cameras that can recognise drivers faces during high speed chases

Law enforcement in the United Arab Emirates has been making headlines of late, assembling some of the fastest cars available for their police motor pools. But while Dubai may have garnered the lion's share of attention to date with its pursuit-vehicle acquisitions, the police in neighboring Abu Dhabi have made a notable acquisition of their own ? and a fitting one, we might add ? in the Lykan HyperSport.

Created by W Motors (which relocated from Lebanon to the Emirates shortly after launching), the Lykan HyperSport is touted as the first Middle Eastern supercar, and featured prominently in Fast & Furious 7. With a 3.7-liter twin-turbo flat-six delivering 740 horsepower, it's claimed to reach 62 miles per hour in a scant 2.8 seconds on its way to a top speed of 245 mph. It also carries an astronomic price tag of $3.4 million that could only be afforded by the richest oil barons in the fiefdoms of the Persian Gulf ? and, apparently, by their public officials.

The Lykan Hypersport has been fitted with special cameras allowing it to read numberplates and even scan the faces of drivers at high speed.

Saab unveils superstealth 'ghost submarine' that is virtually invisible to enemies and even allows divers to silently enter and exit to defend against Russia

New Generation Submarine A26..Artist Impression

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.

Are electric cars damaging YOUR region? Maps reveal how EVs can be WORSE for the environment than gas-guzzling vehicles

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.

The science of Magic Mike: Researchers reveal why male strippers take their clothes off (and say its NOT for the money)

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.

The Milky Way's 'star dust' revealed: 3D map of interstellar debris sheds light on our galaxy's size and shape

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

Does Rosetta's comet harbour ALIEN LIFE? Distinctive features on 67P may have been created by microscopic organisms

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.

Which Facebook friend has DELETED you? App reveals times and dates people removed you from their profile

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.

The car powered by your MIND: BMW i3 navigates a track using nothing but its driver's brain waves

The car (pictured left) was developed by Ewloe-based MoneySuperMarket. They used a driver's seat with a mechanical rig to press the pedals and turn the steering wheel.

The secret of how to manage men: Scientists say setting male employees goals helps them perform better - but the same can't be said for women

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.