The ancient Egyptians bred birds of prey to mummify as offerings to the gods in large numbers, researchers have found.

Scientists at Cambridge University, who created the app, say the test can predict your personality more accurately than your friends, colleagues and your parents.

Dyson (founder Sir James Dyson pictured) made the statements during an earnings announcement in which it revealed the Wiltshire-based firm's revenues were up 10 per cent in 2014.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say that previous research on stating the validity of gaydar was based on poor evidence.

Dr Andrew Breeze, from the University of Navarre in Spain, claims Arthur was a general rather than a monarch, who fought most of his battles in southern Scotland and northern England.

A volunteer attending security firm Kaspersky's conference at the IFA event in Berlin had a chip implanted into his hand that can unlock his phone.

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.

Researchers at Indiana University say they have created an algorithm that can predict the popularity of new faces to the world of modelling with over 80 per cent accuracy.

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 video on YouTube shows ants forming a circle around a ringing iPhone, triggering claims the vibrating handset causes the ants to alter their normal behaviour.

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.

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.

An Arnhem TV station has lost one of its expensive drones after a chimpanzee managed to knock it out of the sky with a stick as it was filming.

Researchers say the blind spot every human has can be effectively 'shrunk' with training, despite the fact that the hole in our visual field cannot be.

Scientists at Caltech claim they have created an experiment that could help improve the detectors used to find the primordial 'echo' of the Big Bang that occurred nearly 14 billion years ago.

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.

Researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee developed the method of producing a new protein known as BsIA, which could enable ice cream to stay frozen for longer.

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority found the 'unique' stone pyramid on the main street through ancient Biblical City of David, which was used by pilgrims passing through the city.

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.

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.

Flic, designed by Swedish company Shortcut Labs, connects to smartphones using Bluetooth and can automate a range of different functions that can be allocated to three different types of click.

Amazon explained it has been able to offer Underground apps for free 'by working out a new amount on a per-minute played basis in exchange for them waiving their normal in-app fees.'

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.

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.

Dutch submersible builder U-Boat Worx has designed the Super Yacht Sub 3 (pictured) to be carried on super yachts. It can carry three people to a depth of up to 984 feet (300 metres).

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.

London-based Dogs Trust has launched the first dog emoji keyboard to let people represent 23 of the most popular breeds (some pictured).