Sphero have created a pocket-sized version of BB-8 from the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. The toy is described as a 'sharp witted, agile little droid'.

There are two routes you can take through the region from the shopping district, to the area of Senkoji Park, with Buddhist temples, shrines and its so-called Cat Pathway.

The state-of-the-art speedboat (pictured), from Caen-based Iguana Yachts, can travel at 40 knots before being transformed into a 'tank' in three seconds, at the touch of a button.

A study of fossils over 500 million-years-old in southern Namibia has revealed how hungry, complex critters caused the Earth's first extinction, by eating all the Ediacarans.

Scientists from University of Paris-Sud have found the seal pups listen out and identify their mother's vocal pitch from a distance and then use other components of the vocal signature at closer range.

Scans of the mummified remains of Nebiri, an ancient Egyptian who lived 3,500 years ago, revealed he died of acute cardiac failure, according to scientists from the University of Turin.

University of Rochester in New York researchers found that people who felt sad were less accurate in identifying colours on the 'blue-yellow axis'.

The trio blasted off in the Soyuz rocket on schedule at 0437 GMT (1237 EDT). The take-off marked the 500th launch from the Gagarin launchpad in Kazakhstan, named after the Soviet space pioneer.

Seismologists have produced the first sharp, three-dimensional scan of Earth's interior that show exactly how volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland were created.

The animation, made with real images taken by New Horizons in July, includes a pass showing the atmospheric glow of Pluto lit by the sun and a look at Charon, Pluto's largest moon.

The map, produced by the University of Hawaii and University of Maryland, will reveal how heat moves in the Earth's interior and monitor sources of man-made radiation.

Robert Egger, creative director of California-based bike manufacturer Specialized has put smart technology at the heart of a new design called the fUCI that deliberately flouts regulations.

Evidence of blood cancer was found in the 7,000-year-old skeleton (pictured), which was discovered in the Neolithic graveyard of Stuttgart-Mühlhausen in Germany.

Experts believe the animals could be from the same litter and probably died in a landslide or burrow collapse in the Ust-Yansky district of northern Russia's Sakha Republic.

Valued between £8,000 ($12,300) and £12,000 ($18,500), the book and its illustrations will be sold at Lyon and Turnbull auction house in Edinburgh on Wednesday.

The physicist's comments come after the historic flyby of the dwarf planet by the New Horizons spacecraft, which uncovered huge glaciers and mountains made of water ice.

The researchers studied fossils of the group called
ankylosaurs including early, primitive species with no tail club and later ones with a fully developed one.

More than 150 fossil fragments of the new eurypterid species (illustrated) were excavated from the upper layer of the Winneshiek Shale in northeastern Iowa.

Called the Polaroid Snap, the $99 instance camera was revealed at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Germany. It can create a 2x3 inch photo in just under a minute using specially developed paper.

EXCLUSIVE: Sue Ann Pien (pictured) from Los Angeles, told MailOnline that being a candidate has is already affecting her relationships and she's working her way through a bucket list.

Ginzvelo was designed by peter Ginzburg from Virginia. The sit-down bike can be pedalled but it also boasts a 500-watt battery-powered motor to push you along for 100 miles on a single charge.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing the swarms of re-usable drone aircraft that can work together to perform a mission.

Ashwin Vasavada, a Nasa scientist who works on the Mars rover project, blames the sightings on a trick of the mind, known pareidolia - the psychological response to seeing familiar objects in random places.

Scientists working at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles used advanced scanning techniques to reveal hidden details and colours of a portrait beneath Rembrandt's Old Man in Military Costume.

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.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany studied the different fortunes between chubby-cheeked males and those less well-endowed.

To simulate a laser's ability to deflect an asteroid, researchers directed a laser onto the target until it glowed white hot, producing a 'rocket engine' using the asteroid itself as the propellant.

The current El Nino could turn into one of the strongest on record, experts from the World Meteorological Organization have warned.

When writing romantic emails, people add more positive content, perhaps to compensate for the medium's inability to convey vocal tone, according to a Indiana University study.

Scientists at the University of Vienna found qualities traditionally attributed to women, such as verbal and multitasking skills, diminished in the weeks after testosterone treatment.

The terraced crater formed because shock waves from the impact that created it moved at different speeds through rock and ice, according to scientists at the University of Arizona.

The pages, which were discovered at the library of the University of Birmingham last month and are from around 568AD, could predate Muhammad, historians have claimed.

Futuristic images have emerged of the intimidatingly named Dreadnought 2050, designed by a group of leading British naval experts to push current technologies to the limit.

The tweets are designed to highlight the huge diversity of insects, mammals, reptiles and birds being studied by biologists in their various fields around the world.

Researchers fed their system a series of old masters - and it turned a modern day snap into perfect pictures in the style of some of the world's best known paintings.

The fourth mission by the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog Simulation (HI-SEAS) began on Friday. The scientists will spend a year inside the dome as part of a NASA-funded study.

Tri Alpha Energy says it's developed a machine that can hold hot plasma steady at 10 million degrees Celsius (18 million degrees Fahrenheit) for five milliseconds.

'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.

Scientists took X-rays of the specimen from different angles, and then compiled them to create a 3D model of the millipede, named Ommatoiulus avatar.

Stretched out like iridescent butterfly wings, the image reveals the incredible complexity of the bipolar nebula's two shimmering lobes 5,560 light-years away.

The £292 million ($451 million) Sailing Yacht A, which is being constructed in Nobiskrug, Germany, is 468ft (143 metres) long and has three masts that are taller than Big Ben's tower.

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.

Google is introducing an application that will connect Android smartwatches with Apple's iPhone, escalating the rivals' battle to strap their technology on people's wrists.

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.

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 discovery (illustrated) was made by astronomers from the University of Oklahoma studying Markarian 231 (Mrk 231), the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar.

The kit, unveiled at tech show IFA in Berlin, comprises a hub and four sensors - a motion sensor, multi-sensor, presence sensor and a smart outlet.

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.

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.

Researchers at Glyndwr University in Wales say molecules found in the crustaceans' shells could be extracted and used instead of synthetic polymers.

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.

A group of researchers led by the University of Virgina set out to repeat 100 experiments published by leading psychology journals to see how often they would get the same results.

Archaeologists in Bradford and Nottingham are using 4D technology to research how Britain's 'Atlantis' was colonised and inhabited for 6,000 years, before being lost to the North Sea.

A new survey of US drivers has raised serious questions about whether car makers are moving too quickly to incorporate sophisticated technology.

Researchers recently explored the 'Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park' reef off the southern Australian coast to discover stunning corals, colourful sponges and a thriving fish life.

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.

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 Russian craft was revealed at Maks-2015, the 12th International Aviation and Space Salon in Moscow and is being made by RSC Energia.

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 United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this morning at 6:18 in perfect weather.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers from Durham University identified the bones as coming from soldiers captured after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, one of the bloodiest battles of the 17th century's Civil Wars.