Foldscope was tested out by US field biologist Aaron Pomerantz, who spent a month in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest where he used the device to capture these striking images.

Psychiatrists at Kings College London say babies that prefer looking at a ball to a human face are more likely to develop callous-unemotional characteristics.

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

Companion, developed in Michigan, is free on iOS and Android. Users must enter their number to sign up to the service. Although the app was designed in the US, it works with international numbers.

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

University of Texas researchers have revealed the full extent of the 'Mayacene' as a microcosm of the Anthropocene - a period when humans began affecting the environment.

Apple expert Jonathan Zufi has revealed this isn't the firm's first attempt at gaming - and has given dailymail.com exclusive pictures of some of Apple's previous products.

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 say a galaxy called EGS8p7 that is more than 13.2 billion years old, while the universe itself is about 13.8 billion years old.

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.

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.

Historians believe they have uncovered a series of burial chambers in Turkey dating back to the Kingdom of Urartu, which ruled the country from the mid-ninth century until its defeat by the Medes.

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.

The AK Ti8e headphones from Amstel&Kern; launched at IFA in Berlin and will go on sale next months for £800 ($999 or €990).

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.

Earlier this week, one group claims they have seen a 'floating spoon' on Mars. Now, a new wider version of the image reveals more 'spoons' and even something resembling a chopstick.

Scientists from The Roslin Institute in Edinburgh injected the chicks (pictured) with a fluorescent protein to help identify them from normal birds during tests.

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.

Security expert Jonathan Petit developed the proof-of-concept attack at the University of Cork. His findings are due to be presented at November's Black Hat conference in Amsterdam.

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.

Facing increasing competition from Amazon, Netflix and Apple, the firm has revealed a new $11.99 per month ad free option.

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.

The Starliner is being built at the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility, or C3PF, at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is due to launch in 2017.

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.

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.

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.

The ceramic polymer ring, created by inventors in San Francisco, California, links to an app to give wearers personalised suggestions and goals to help them sleep better.

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 drone, nicknamed 'Buckeye', recently completed a flight test by Nasa in California. The knowledge gained about flutter will be used in designing the proposed supersonic X-54

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.

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.

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.

The $89 (£60) Blush has been created by New York-based Lovense. The firm has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funding for the gadget and it has already tripled its $10,000 target.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed a 'zippered tube' configuration that makes paper structures that are stiff enough to hold weight yet can fold flat.

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.

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.

The special protein naturally occurs in a Japanese breakfast food called 'natto' made from fermented soy beans and binds together the air, fat and water in ice cream, helping scoops stay intact for longer.

Nasa has revealed a concept for a rover called the 'hedgehog' that can hop, fall and flip around alien worlds by spinning and braking internal flywheels.

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.