Facebook says it will begin test flights later this year of a solar-powered drone with the wingspan of a Boeing 737, the next stage of its campaign to deliver Internet service to remote parts of the world. Engineers at the giant social network say they've now completed a drone (main image) with a 140-foot wingspan that weighs less than 1,000 pounds. It will use lasers to send Internet signals to stations on the ground (bottom left).
Bugzilla! If you're scared of insects, look away from these magnified images
The 761 ft-tall (232 metre) concrete tube has been built in Rottweil, Germany to put maglev lift technology through its paces.
How fleek, faved and famo conquered America: Interactive map reveals how new words spread across the nation
WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: The maps, created by Quartz using research by Dr Jack Grieve at Aston University in Birmingham, reveals how words spread in each county in a given week and how it spread over a year. The maps show, for instance, how fleek exploded almost simultaneously across the country last year. The phrase, which translates to perfect or on point, is believed to have been started Kayla Newman, a Vine user, when saying, 'Finna get crunk. Eyebrows on fleek.'
Return of the FLIP PHONE: LG unveils budget 90s-style mobile with a small screen and a 3MP camera
The LG Gentle handset (pictured) has a 3.2-inch colour touch screen and will launch in South Korea, but there's no news whether the smartphone will come to the UK or US. With a circular navigation button in the centre of the physical keypad, the handset bears a striking resemblance to the more basic handsets many of us cherished over a decade ago.
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- I came, I PAWED, I conquered! Roman 'army cat' left its prints in a 2,000-year-old clay tile discovered in Gloucester
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- Did early humans eat their CHILDREN? 100,000-year-old thigh bones unearthed in China show signs of bite marks
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- US military's smart rifle can be HACKED: Security researchers remotely change weapon's target and disable its scope
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- Chimps detox too! Primates binge on mineral-rich clay to purify their bodies and boost their health
- Nasa's 'impossible' fuel-free thrusters DO work: German scientists confirm viability of super-fast space travel that could slash a journey to the moon down to 4 HOURS
- Windows 10 security alert as new 'feature' automatically shares your wifi passwords with ALL Outlook, Skype and Facebook contacts who also have the software
- Back to the future? Time travel could create doppelgangers that would ultimately destroy each other, claims radical theory
- The mystery of the 'Moose' and 'Elk' on Mars: Curiosity sent back to examine strange rocks on red planet’s surface
- Have scientists invented real-life adamantium? New metal alloy has highest melting point of any known substance at 4,126°C
- Blue moon on the horizon: Rare phenomenon of two full moons within a calendar month will light up skies on Friday
- Windows 10 is here: Microsoft finally launches 'last version' of its OS as experts give it a lukewarm reception (but say you should still upgrade)
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- The mysterious Chinese house of horrors: Researchers find almost 100 deformed dead bodies stacked in ancient home
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The plane which could mean non-stop flights from the UK to Australia (but you'll have to wait until 2050 to try it)
Dutch airline KLM has teamed up with Delft University of Technology to produce concept designs that could be the future of planes. The main feature is a blended-wing design that will ensure better fuel proficiency due to the aircraft being more streamlined. The AHEAD aircraft, which stands for Advanced Hybrid Engine Aircraft Development, is being designed to carry 300 passengers over a range of 8,700 miles - approximately the distance from Amsterdam to Perth.
Windows 10 is here: Microsoft finally launches 'last version' of its OS as experts give it a lukewarm reception (but say you should still upgrade)
Windows 10, the biggest update Microsoft has made to its computer software, has finally launched after a massive beta test programme. The new software will be the first to work across all Windows-powered devices, from smartphones to tablets and desktop computers, as well as Microsoft's Xbox One games console.
The Death Star weapon is here! Japan fires world's most powerful laser to produce energy equal to 1,000 times the planet's power consumption
Osaka University was able to produce a 2-petawatt - or 2 quadrillion-watt - laser beam using the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments. This is equivalent to 1,000 times the world's electricity consumption, causing the laser to be compared to that on the Death Star in Star Wars (inset). The energy of the laser beam itself was only powerful enough to run a microwave for around two seconds. However, the team were able to produce such a high output by concentrating the power to 1 pico-second, or around a trillionth of a second.
I came, I PAWED, I conquered! Roman 'army cat' left its prints in a 2,000-year-old clay tile discovered in Gloucester
A domestic cat - possibly the companion of a Roman soldier stationed at the site in Gloucester - is believed to have made the prints (pictured main and close-up, top right) as the tile dried in the sun in around 100AD. The tile, a type called tegula, was used on the roof of a building in what became the Berkeley Street area of modern city. A interlocking roof made of imbrex and tegula tiles is shown bottom right.
What are the 'blood trails' on Saturn's moon? Experts are stumped by mysterious arch-shaped red lines on Tethys' icy surface
Cassini has spotted mysterious red lines, several hundred miles long, scratched across the surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys (inset). The unexplained arc-shaped 'blood trails' are among the most unusual colour features on Saturn's moons to be revealed by the probe. Scientists are baffled by the presence of the red lines, with some suggesting they may be exposed ice with chemical impurities, or the result of outgassing from inside Tethys.
The mystery of the 'Moose' and 'Elk' on Mars: Curiosity sent back to examine strange rocks on red planet's surface
The rocks contain high levels of silica and hydrogen which are ideal for preserving evidence of carbon-containing organic materials that could point to signs of ancient life. Elk lies downhill from a geological contact zone the rover has been studying near 'Marias Pass' (left) on lower Mount. Sharp. Upon its return, the rover looked at a similar region, dubbed 'Lamoose' (right).
Jamestown's original four colonial leaders discovered buried under the church where Pocahontas was married amid claims one may have been a Spanish SPY
Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of four of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America (main image), buried for more than 400 years near the altar of what was America's first Protestant church in Jamestown, Virginia (top right). Researchers were stunned to find one of the, identified as Capt. Gabriel Archer , a vociferous critic and rival of Captain John Smith, was buried with catholic artefacts (bottom right), leading to claims he was part of a secret catholic cell or a Spanish spy.
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