Nasa is to consider sending the New Horizons probe to one of two frozen objects in the ring of debris orbiting four billion miles from the sun. The spacecraft has power to last 20 more years.

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.

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.

Called Lightyear.fm, the project (pictured) was created by New York-based computer designers Brian Moore and Chris Baker with Mike Lacher and Mikhail Chernov.

Mars One, often ridiculed for their overly ambitious proposal to send humans to Mars, has revealed how they plan to  whittle down their candidates from 100 to 40.

In an elaborate phone scam, fraudsters are pretending to be computer security experts working for top companies, and ringing trusting people at home to tell them they are at risk of a computer virus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For almost a quarter of a century Steve Feltham, 52, originally from Dorset, was convinced the waters of Loch Ness held a family of prehistoric monsters - but now he claims Nessie doesn't exist.

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.

The space rock named UW-158 has attracted the attention of asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, because of its 90 million tonne core of platinum.

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.

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.

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.

Milton Keynes-based property site Rightmove, asked experts to predict what our homes will look like in 50 years' time and additions include 3D printers, self-heating beds and a 'growth station'.

A tooth from the remains of a Palaeolithic hunter found in north east Italy has been found to have tiny cut marks from a sharp flint tool used to dig out infected tissue.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The interactive test poses ten multiple-choice questions to determine how many children parents-to-be can cope with based on individual lifestyles, personality and values.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

During Operation Plumbbob, 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.