Tri Alpha Energy says it's developed a machine that can hold hot plasma steady at 10m degrees Celsius (18m degrees Fahrenheit) for five milliseconds.
The Compact Laser Weapon System can be assembled in 15 minutes, and then destroy targets from up to 22 miles away with an an energy beam of up to 10 kilowatts. At an exercise at Point Mugu, California it was able to tracking and disabling a moving, untethered unmanned aerial vehicle (insets).
Scientists at Duke University in North Carolina say the results may help develop treatments for conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and addiction.
Men find thinner women attractive because they associate their body shape with youth, fertility and a lower risk of disease, according to a study by the University of Aberdeen.
Set to be called 'What's Your Wife Worth,' mockups of the app were leaked in emails from founder Noel Biderman, and show a dollar amount next to women based on their rating.
'On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family,' Mark Zuckerberg posted to his own page on the site.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works headquarters in Palmdale, California,is designing the next-generation, high-altitude and long-endurance (HALE) of the U-2. It will be 'optionally manned'.
Apple has confirmed a 'special event' in San Francisco on September 9th, where it is expected to unveil its next generation iPhone and a new Apple TV box.
Researchers recently explored the 'Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park' reef off the southern Australian coast using an underwater robot. There, they discovered stunning corals and colourful sponges. They also found abundant fish species including some that are said to be endangered, such as the Australian barracuda and Longsnout Boarfish (top inset). Pictured on the the bottom left is a nudibranch slug with a pink sponge.
Experts at the Berlin Archaeological Institute have found the famous Shigir Idol, discovered in Siberia in 1890, is 1,500 years older than previously thought.
South-Korean electronics giant Samsung has revealed a system that uses facial recognition and eye-tracking technology to detect if a viewer is having trouble seeing what is on the screen.
The study, by London-based Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) shows bad driving such as road rage 'reduced attractiveness by 50 per cent'.
Psychologists at Kings College London found that creative thinkers, such as Woody Allen (stock image) tend to be neurotic worriers. Other people considered to be geniuses are also neurotic.
Local authorities in the UK, Spain, Italy and the US have introduced DNA testing for dog waste left on the streets, which is compared against a genetic database of registered animals.
Scientists led by the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) say four-year-old Knut (pictured) was suffering from 'anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis'.
Stretched out like iridescent butterfly wings, the image reveals the incredible complexity of the nebula's two shimmering lobes 5,560 light-years away. Despite their peaceful appearance, these violent cosmic clouds are jets of star material, streaming off into space at speeds over 620, 000mph (1 million km/h). The star has not only ejected its outer layers, but the exposed remnant core is now illuminating these layers - resulting in a spectacular light show.
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The £292 million ($451 million) Sailing Yacht A (pictured left), which is being constructed in Nobiskrug, Germany, is 468ft (143 metres) long and has three masts that are taller than Big Ben's tower. It features a massive 1.8 ton curved glass observation pod in the hull just behind the keel and a helicopter landing pad. It is the second vessel to be built by Mr Melnichenko (pictured right) and is expected to be packed with technology and will have a crew of around 54. It will begin sea trials later this year.
A forensic psychologist at Northwestern University in Chicago believes the findings of his study could help to identify men who are at risk of killing family members and intervene early to prevent the crime.
Researchers from Cardiff University observed around 10,000 galaxies (selection shown) currently present in the Universe using a survey of the sky created by the Herschel Atlas and Gama projects.
The aircraft is designed to fly as fast and as high as current business jets, but able to land and take off from any paved, helipad-sized space, cutting out the need to travel to airports.
The mantidfly, which looks as if it escaped from a sci-fi film, was held captive in Utah by a YouTube user who filmed the animal eating a small fly while holding it in its praying mantis-like front legs.
Canadian psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos found that, chemically, the stress of bad dates can lead to an increase in cortisol and testosterone levels in the body.
Virginia researchers found a protein within the head of the sperm forms spiky filaments (pictured), which they believe may lash together the sperm and its target.
The study, by the University of Southern California and the University of Utah, found movement in the mantle pushes up on the overlying rock in the crust, causing tremors,
Chapman University in California analysed 48 samples of meat, and found 10 to be mislabeled. Of those 10, nine had additional animal included and one sample was mislabeled completely.
Wisconsin physician Sharon Rink has dubbed the phenomenon 'social media lice' and says it is being caused by group selfie snaps that cause friends to bump heads.
After tracking the patients for five years, investigators at Harvard Medical School and National Institute of Health in Maryland, found no evidence that omega-3 supplements help maintain memory.
The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle has 'the ballistic protection of a light tank, the underbody protection of an MRAP-class vehicle, and the off-road mobility of a Baja racer,' military bosses said.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil of a new species of early iguana called Gueragama sulamericana (illustrated) outside the city of Cruzeiro do Oeste in Brazil.
Called M, it is believed to have been named after James Bond's secretary, Moneypenny. The firm today began testing the service, which uses both artificial intelligence and people.
Microsoft said Wednesday that its new Windows 10 software is running on more than 75 million computers, tablets and other devices - after just under a month.
When you lose your car keys and then go upstairs only to forget why, it's easy to fear your memory is fading. But these 'senior moments' should be welcomed.
The move by Google-owned YouTube takes direct aim at Twitch, the gaming-centric streaming video site acquired by Amazon last year for nearly $1 billion.
Researchers at Glyndwr University in Wales say molecules found in the crustaceans' shells could be extracted and used instead of synthetic polymers.
London-based Dogs Trust has launched the first dog emoji keyboard to let people represent 23 of the most popular breeds (some pictured).
Best Buy had planned to have the watch in 300 stores by Christmas, but this has increased to 1,050 by October. The announcement was made during a conference call with Wall Street analysts.
The hacker, who goes under the name 'SexyCyborg', designed the shoes with hidden compartments which can be taken out without the shoes being taken off. Each compartment contains hacking equipment, such as malicious flash drives and a router to log into networks via Wi-Fi. Dubbed the 'Wu Ying Shoes', the platforms are designed to be worn with sexy clothing, the hacker said. She claims her aim is to 'distract the target with my upper body [so] they don't see the real danger on my feet.'
The research was carried out when 21 people contacted Professor Adam Zeman from the University of Exeter after reading his previous research and realising they had never been able to imagine.
The image was tweeted by Nasa's California-based Europa Mission. A single image of Jupiter's moon Europa is positioned among eight shots of frying pans taken by artist Christopher Jonassen.
Engineers at Stanford University, California, investigated the ability of swans and geese to keep their heads still while beating their wings - even during whiffling (file image).
The robotic hand (pictured), developed by Plymouth-based Open Bionics can be 3D printed in 40 hours but has the same functionality as more expensive bionic devices.
While pictures of hangdog pets might convince us they have seen the error of their ways, experts now say that 'guilty' expressions are not evidence of feelings of contrition at all.
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and North Carolina State University analysed dust (a microscope image is shown) found in 1,200 households across the US.
The fossil (pictured) was discovered by a palaeontology student who was combing Lavernock Beach, near Penarth in South Wales for fossils.
Expected to be called the HTC Aero, the handset has almost identical rounded edges and white plastic antenna bars as Apple's most recent iPhone 6 handset.
In a bid to yield answers to the mystery of Aberdeenshire's 'oldest man', a team of archaeologists has embarked on a dig at the site near Rhynie. The Rhynie Man is believed to date from the fifth or sixth century and there are many theories as to what he represents. He could be a memorial to a Pictish leader, a figure from a Pictish legend or could represent St Matthew, as Christianity spread across the land.
Researchers in Germany have focused on a key ingredient known a lecithin, which is used to keep fat in the chocolate stable so that it doesn't separate from the cocoa solids and dairy.
The new service is currently being tested on two streets in San Francisco and essentially turns Uber cars into a type of private bus that picks up passengers along a route on demand.
Dr Rhys Morgan claims to have found the formula for Winnie the Pooh's favourite game, poohsticks. He suggests a perfect stick should be as thick, dense and rough as possible.
Researchers at Duke University said that if monkeys can reason about ratios and maybe even analogies, our minds are likely to have been set up with these skills as well.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, have proposed a core of rubble and ice would generate enough heat as it moves to maintain an ocean beneath Enceladus's crust.
Two separate US teams say they have found a way to create a universal flu vaccine using a technique that targets a stable part of the flu virus, after promising trials on animals.
Australian researchers have revealed a tiny 'backpack' chip developed with Intel that could help shed new light on the plight of the bumblebee.
The paper outlines a Dual-Mode Augmented Canine Transport System, called Project DUCTS, which despatches dogs using helium rockets.
The clip, of unknown origin, sees a mother spider carrying her tiny spiderlings on her back. Feeling cornered, the arachnid scuttles out of shot, dropping hundreds of spiderlings on the floor, which starts to crawl in every direction. It is not clear if mama spider dropped her babies by accident, or if it was done on purpose as a defense mechanism.
Experts at the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta found that men are affected by how they are perceived by others.
Apple is letting developers add content blocking to their apps in iOS 9 to stop ads, pictures and pop-ups automatically loading on pages. This will save time and data when surfing the web on Safari.
Russian archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of what is believed to be a Scythian king from around 400BC and 500BC close to the village of Krasny Yar in the Altai region of southern Russia.
California-based search engine Google has been granted a patent for a system that automatically detects uneven roads using sensors and sends this information to a server with GPS location.
The American Chemical Society has produced a series of tips to help workers stay awake without having to drink coffee. It says dancing and viral videos can give vital mood hormone boosts.
A survey of parents has revealed half of children returning to school this autumn will be doing so with new gadgets in their bags, with pupils carrying an average of £270 worth of technology.
The human bones, which included a femur, ribs and a jaw, (pictured) were uncovered by engineers working for National Grid in Hertford, less than 350 yards from the town's medieval castle.
The crew of the Ocean Cleanup ventured to areas of the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch', a swirling mass of human-linked debris spanning hundreds
of miles of open sea.
They incredible videos reveal the growth, mutation and evolution of lethal tumours. Scientists say it will help them to understand how lethal cancers develop resistance to drugs and chemotherapy. In the videos, similar colours denote similar mutations and - as the tumour grows - they remain clustered together, as also shown by experiment.
Researchers discovered that if men take up more of the child-care duties, splitting them equally with their female partners, couples are more satisfied with relationships and sex lives.
In exciting experiments, Mayo Clinic researchers made cancerous breast and bladder cells benign again. And they believe many other types of cancer should be in their grasp.
A graduate of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology sampled 4,000 user-generated Android lock patterns to identify common patterns and habits.
Dubbed the 'periscope phone' because of its strange shape, the handset also features a fingerprint sensor and a large 5.7inch screen.
Researchers say the attitudes to 11-16 year olds reveals a double standard of attitudes to sex.
An Israeli company says it has developed technology that can charge a mobile phone in a few seconds and an electric car in minutes.
Japanese scientists have explained how an iron bar could in theory pick out a slot machine with favourable odds using using 'tug-of-war-dynamics' (TOW).
A giant tooth believed to be that of a Megalodon Shark has been found in a Croatian river. Fossil remains suggest that this giant shark reached maximum length of 18 metres.
Conspiracy theorists can't seem to get enough of the shadowy images sent by Nasa's Mars Curiosity Rover. In their latest 'discovery', they claim to have spotted the Star Destroyer from Star Wars. 'I found this anomaly in the latest Curiosity Rover photo. The black object looks like a crashed UFO,' wrote UFO Sightings contributor Scott Waring. He said that the 'craft' is only about 2.5 to 3 metres across, 'so it probably only held a few passengers.'
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: At around 180kg (28st 4lb), the heart weighed as much as a large tractor tyre, and took four people to lift from a whale skeleton found in Newfoundland, Canada.
Embassy Gardens, a 'truly unique' Thames-side development in Battersea, will be made up of around 2,000 homes including three-bedroom suites and penthouses starting at £602,000.
Eter9, designed by Portuguese programmer Henrique Jorge, uses artificial intelligence to learn about its users from their posts to generate a virtual 'counterpart' to post when they are offline.
Nasa is using a 150-year-old photography technique, dubbed 'schlieren imagery', to capture stunning images of shockwaves created by supersonic planes.
The bottle, pictured, was found on the island of Amrum in the North Sea and was one of 1,020 sent from Plymouth between 1904 and 1906 by marine biologist George Parker Bidder, pictured.
The US Air Force has updated the old World War II slogan, 'Loose lips sink ships,' for the social media age, proclaiming 'loose tweets destroy fleets' in a campaign to stop airmen revealing too much online.
Researcher Ann Schlosser, from the University of Washington Foster School of Business, claims that metaphors for emotions, in this case 'sweet', translate into actual behaviours.
The new covers would resemble its current ones but with panels on the outside that show widgets while it's closed and interact with apps when it folds into a stand for the device.
A test version of Orion touched down in the Arizona desert today after engineers intentionally failed two different parachutes used to slow down the spacecraft for landing. Despite the parachutes failing, Orion landed gently on the desert floor, although it did so almost upside down. Nasa hopes to use the spacecraft send astronauts to an asteroid in the 2020s and ultimately take them to Mars in the 2030s.
The oldest remains of a baboon ever to be discovered have been found at a site where the ancestors of early humans once lived. The find will help to accurately date other fossils in the area.
Bristol University researchers conducted a 'real world' study that involved recruiting drinkers in three pubs in the city (stock image).
Scientists at Iowa State University tested four consumer fitness bands and found that they struggled to accurately measure exercise levels when the user sat still or during strength training.
Archaeologists unearthed the partially mummified body of the baby (pictured) within a stone coffin close to the village of Kurai in Kosh-Agach district of the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia.
The gadget, codenamed Tahoe, is expected to be aimed at the living room when it is revealed later this year, and will go up against Panasonic's 20inch Toughpad tablet (pictured).
The research, by Aarhus University in Denmark, claims most of northern Europe would probably now be home to creatures such as wolves, moose, bears and even elephants.
The new terms, which have angered users worldwide, include access to photos, phone numbers, location and sensor data stored on a user's smartphone.
Nasa has issued an exasperated statement in response to viral internet rumours that an asteroid is due to impact off the coast of Puerto Rico between 15 and 28 September.
Bigfoot hunter MK Davis spotted the dark figure in footage he filmed while walking with friends in Bluff Creek in California (circled in the picture). He claims the creature appears to be struggling with some kind of bag. The site of the latest sighting is the same as a famous video of Bigfoot captured in 1967 (shown inset).
A team working in an American hospital found children of parents who suffered under the Nazi regime had an increased likelihood of developing stress disorders.
Researchers at the University of St Andrews digitally altered the faces of men and asked participants' opinions of them, finding height and masculinity increased with perceived dominance.
This is according to Professor Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney who claims the idea of warp speed has been proven possible in Einstein's theory of relativity.
Patti Wood, a body language and behavior expert who teaches at Emory University in Atlanta, explains that the way you put on your bra correlates with four distinct personality types.
Paris-based European Space Agency (Esa) compared the song to the way waves are produced when a hose fills with water, and these oscillations are what makes the comet 'sing'.
Researchers say small peaks and valleys in baby spinach leaves could be a key reason why there have been numerous bacterial outbreaks involving leafy green vegetables.
The aquatic Montsechia vidalii (pictured) was once abundant in freshwater lakes in what are now mountainous regions of central and northern Spain.
Whistled Turkish is Turkish that has been adapted into a series of whistles. This method of communicating was popular before the advent of telephones, and can travel up to 90m away.
A series of maps shows that Iceland smokes the most weed (map shown left and stock image of a spliff bottom right), with the Netherlands not even making the top five, while Norway is the booziest nation (inset top right). A map, based on European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) data, shows that in Norway, 893 adults in every 1,000 have drank alcohol in the past year. Germany and Finland are close behind, followed by France and Ireland, which is known for its drinking culture.
Ancestors of dogs living in North America 40 million years ago resembled small mongooses and were ambush predators much like modern many cats.
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington have shown how a supernova explosion gave our solar system its spin, without which there would be no planets.
The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts it will be super cold with a slew of snow for much of the country, even in places that don't usually see too much of it, like the Pacific Northwest.
Google made the announcement by unveiling a statue of a large Android mascot hugging a marshmallow outside its headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
Dr Kevin Trenberth, a scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, argues that the natural variability in weather patterns has masked the upward trend in temperatures.
Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe showing some of the continent's first farmers bearing terrible wounds.
Canadian space firm Thoth has outlined plans for an elevator to space, potentially saving huge amounts of fuel and money that form part of the vast cost of launching rockets into orbit.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are unravelling how the human brain recognises familiar faces and why sometimes it makes mistakes, by studying rats in a maze.
A new image (left), taken from 915 miles (1,470km) away, has revealed the mountain in unprecedented detail, showing its conical shape, and a series of mysterious bright streaks on its surface. Dawn also took a stunning image of mountain ridge (top right) on the dwarf planet, that lies in the center of Urvara crater on Ceres. The crater has been named after the Indian and Iranian deity of plants and fields. Another image (bottom right) shows the unusual shape of the Gaue crater, named after Germanic goddess to who offerings are made in harvesting rye.
Apple suppliers in China are said to be gearing up for the launch of a smaller 4-inch model dubbed iPhone 6C as soon as November - two months after the launch of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center say this could explain why it may take years to learn dates, but only seconds to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, from a shock or sudden event.
A new study of the papyrus' ink by Columbia University has undermined evidence the document was written by the same author who may have forged a fragment from the canonical Gospel of John.
For decades, the African elephant has been poached to such an extent that its numbers have dropped from some 1.2 million in 1980 to around just 400,000 today, writes GUY WALTERS.
Physicists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain have built a device (pictured) that can make magnetic fields appear to tunnel through space by making them invisible.
Scientists at Lund University, Sweden, have shown species of African dung beetles active during the daytime and at night, use different celestial cues to roll dung along in a straight line.
A new survey of US drivers has raised serious questions about whether car makers are moving too quickly to incorporate sophisticated technology.
A crowd-funded start-up called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has said it will break ground on its own test track next year in Quay Valley, California.
A MRI study by the University of Southern California has found that having the opportunity to learn from failure can turn it into a positive experience.
Flavour researcher, Charles Michel, based in Oxford, was commissioned by Asda to create the ultimate burger, a weird combination of French cheese and chilli sauce to stimulate all the senses.
Two-year-old Ursula (pictured), who lives at the Living Coasts zoo and aquarium in Torquay, Devon, interacts and plays with just about anything put in her tank - from Lego bricks to water pistols.
Speaking at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Professor Hawking explained his theory, which suggests information lost in black holes could be stored in alternative universes.
A $3 million (£1.9 million) centre has been set up on Mount Entoto near Addis Ababa and houses computer-controlled telescopes (pictured) and a spectrograph, to measure wavelengths of radiation.
Dennis Miloseski, the studio head of Samsung Design America, posted the image to his personal account, saying he was 'Giving the new Samsung Gear S2 a test drive.'
The SRS-LSR100 is described on the company's website as a 'TV speaker that you can keep close at hand.'
The S-Pen stylus for Galaxy Note 5 models can be stored within the body of the phone, but when inserted upside down it appears to snag on an internal mechanism.
Calculations by Joe Stange from Phoenix-based Draft magazine show that after three 4% beers, containing 1.4 units each, 1.2 units of alcohol remain, compared to 2.4 units left by the 5% beers.
Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Glasgow said female guppy fish learn to swim more efficiently with practice, to outpace males.
Scientists at the University of Oregon have found that people who fake or hide their emotions are seen as more socially distant and indifferent to others' feelings.
Dr Sally Norton reveals how some so-called bad habits, including a shopping splurge on pay day and a weekend lie-in are in fact, anything but, and can boost your health and wellbeing.
The firm has revealed how the intricate maze of computers that process Internet search requests, show YouTube video clips and distribute email for millions of people works.
Loughborough-based Intelligent Energy made the hydrogen-powered fuel cell for the iPhone 6 but has not commented on rumours it is working with Apple to boost its phones' battery lives.
Researchers at Stanford University said women asked for a divorce 69 per cent of the time as, inspired by feminist thinking, they became fed up with the lack of gender equality in their marriage.
It is estimated that the Jakobshavn glacier in western Greenland glacier lost a total area of 12.5 sq km in just two days in August.
University of Delaware scientist, Paul Quinn, found that by getting children to respond to the faces as individuals, not as a category, their racial bias could be reversed in 15-30 minutes.
A Birmingham University study has found that the second ice age during the Cryogenian period ended with regular advances and retreats of the ice, caused by the Earth wobbling on its axis.
Valery Spiridonov has confirmed major donations have started to arrive, allowing surgeon Sergio Canavero to continue planning the operation to remove his head and place it on another body.
Family photographs, medical records and bank statements can all be downloaded because of glaring security flaws in hard drives used to back up and store personal and business data.
US scientists have found traces of carbon in volcanic glass collected from the Apollo missions, and say this volatile gas may have caused fountains of fire on the moon.
Captured by the X-ray satellite XMM-Newton, the images reveal enormous X-ray emitting bubbles, tens of light years across, creating giant cavities in the gas, dust and plasma.
Researchers found there are actually a series of subtle linguistic clues that predict when a betrayal is coming - but say we almost always miss them.
Researchers at the University of Stavanger in Norway found that at just age two-and-a-half, girls are more capable of feeding and dressing themselves, as well as socialising at kindergarten.
Apple has said that 'a small percentage of iPhone 6 Plus' handsets contain a faulty component in the iSight camera that can cause photos to look blurry.
Psychologists from the universities of Lincoln, York and Hertfordshire created an experiment to test how people's mental representations of days of the week are constructed.
Boston College in Massachusetts researchers suggest that time spent in the care of other adults can actually improve a child's behaviour.
An Idaho-based ammunition manufacturer has developed Drone Munition (pictured) as 'the first line of self-defence against drone based threats'.
A group of scientists working in Peru and Panama have discovered the nocturnal spider that is able to glide and steer in mid-air, displaying remarkable agility for an arachnid.
Geologists have found underground reservoirs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand could contain millions of dollars worth of silver and gold. The Champagne Pool hot spring is pictured.
Three astronauts including European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti are shown being thrown around inside the Soyuz capsule as they touched down on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Researchers say some of the rich diamond deposits in the Northwest Territories were formed as a result of ancient seawater streaming into the deep roots of the continent.
It may have fared badly in the recent robo-olympics, but Google has revealed its humanoid robot has been set free in the woods to learn how to run through terrain.
With plenty of little-known spots to see, Visit IOM has created a handy guide to consult before embarking on your next holiday - particularly, if you want to be guaranteed a sighting of some all-natural rarities.
Scientists from the University of Toronto in Canada believe a process called alternative splicing is the reason why humans evolved to have the largest and most complex brain among vertebrates.
Vast areas of California's Central Valley are sinking faster than in the past as massive amounts of groundwater are being pumped during the state's historic drought.
Users who have the app on their iPhone can now visit web.whatsapp.com in Google Chrome and scan the QR code to chat with friends from their computer.
Scientists have shed light on the origins of the barely-there neutral subatomic particles (illustrated) in an underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.
Victorian volcano-chaser Tempest Anderson, from York, spent decades of his life hunting down and documenting the world's most dangerous volcanoes. His work has finally been digitised.
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam and Sunderland Universities have revealed how the artist blended colours to intentionally exploit our peripheral vision on his earlier work, 'La Bella Principessa.'
Named ARC, the planned reactor will be a tokamak - or donut-shaped - system and would generate the same amount of energy as much larger designs with the help of advanced magnets.
The flaw allows an attacker to hijack control of your computer via Internet Explorer - just by visiting a boobytrapped webpage.
Intel, the company behind the innovative software that allows Cambridge astrophysicist Stephen Hawking to speak, has released the program online so that others can benefit from the system.
Researchers at the University of Connecticut used data from the ongoing SoulPulse study, which collects data using participants' smartphones, to show people are spiritual in the morning.
Scientists at the Federal University of Minas in Brazil found that the venom of a Brazilian Wandering Spider contains PnPP-19, which could be used as a Viagra-alternative.
The research by New York founded TGI Friday's also found that 27 per cent of men find it attractive when women get 'hands-on' and 'stuck in' to their food by ordering messy dishes such as burgers or ribs.
Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado used computer simulations to show how billions of stones accumulated over 10 million years to create the gas giants we see today.
Want to know the secret to keep your flowers fresh for longer? Give plants vodka to sustain them, upper left, mouthwash, middle, to preserve the colour and lemonade, lower, to make them perky.
Scientists will drag a whale carcass behind a boat rigged with cameras with the aim of capturing a a great white shark (stock image) feeding on camera in the Irish Sea.
A leading linguist at the University of Houston claims to have unraveled the mystery of the origins of the fictional languages used by Jonathan Swift in his famous novel - they are based on Hebrew.
Mexican archaeologists believe they have found the main trophy rack of sacrificed human skulls at Mexico City's Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site.
Archaeologists at the University of Haifa in Israel claim stone age humans pounded large limestone mortars (pictured) to summon surrounding communities to burial ceremonies.
A new variety of a semi-precious stone has been discovered in Treak Cliff Cavern in the Peak District. It is the first time in 150 years that a new variant of Blue John Stone has been found.
The find (skull bones pictured) was made in the Ural Mountains and is reported to be the largest-ever discovery of remains of the extinct creature that was 25 per cent larger than today's African lions.
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.
Aston Martin, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire,has confirmed it is working on an all-electric version of its four-door Rapide (original pictured) which is intended to go on sale in two years' time.
New Zealand brand Blunt created the super-strong umbrella, which has a 'Tile' Bluetooth chip hidden in a specially designed pocket in the canopy.
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