The 8-bit game, called SpaceX Falcon Lander (screenshot shown left) was developed by MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts and lets people use a keyboard's arrow keys to manoeuvre the rocket. The aim is to slow down and land the rocket on the platform, which may sound simple but is in fact fiendishly difficult. It's designed to show the difficulties faced by the SpaceX mission in landing the Falcon 9 Lander (top right) on a platform at sea (bottom right).
Among the highlights is an incredible panorama showing a sunset on the icy world (main image) and detailed views of Pluto's glaciers (inset).
The 2,000-year-old structures were built to mark the graves of Kushites near the ancient town of Gematon. The largest pyramid would have been 43 feet tall.
How polluted is YOUR city? Live interactive map shows exactly how much harmful smog is in the air where you live right now
Beijing based environmental monitoring project, the World Air Quality Index is publishing real time pollution maps across the world (pictured) to reveal levels of harmful particulate matter. PM2.5 particulates from car fumes and fossil fuel burning are thought to pose a high risk to human health. The maps allow city residents to see when are the best times to venture outside.
Amazing 'end of times' lights form among clouds over Costa Rica, bringing crowds to a standstill to watch incredible phenomenon
Crowds were brought to a standstill when they witnessed an astonishing 'end of times' lights form among clouds over Costa Rica. The spectacle, in the capital of San Jose, occurred on the country's Independence Day last Tuesday. It led some to describe the incredible phenomenon as being 'like a sign of God'.
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- The parasitic wasps that are genetically modifying butterflies: Insects pass on a virus that alters the caterpillar's genome
- The truth behind the five-second rule: Scientist reveals the chances of you getting sick from eating food dropped on the floor
- It's no yolk: Australian scientist wins parody Nobel Prize for creating a way to unboil an egg
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- Apple sweeps the board at the T3 Awards with PlayStation, Microsoft's HoloLens and Tesla also walking away with accolades
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- El Nino will cause MORE damage to parched California: Experts say weather system may bring another year of drought to the region
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- From a beautiful sunset to majestic mountains: Stunning new images of Pluto reveal its 'Earth-like' landscape in incredible detail
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- The science of why people cheat: Scientists reveal the two main reasons behind the popularity of Ashley Madison
- Inside the cave that was home to Denisovans, Neanderthals AND Homo sapiens: Different species of early man used the same shelter for thousands of years
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From a beautiful sunset to majestic mountains: Stunning new images of Pluto reveal its 'Earth-like' landscape in incredible detail
Among the highlights is an incredible panorama (left) showing a sunset on the icy world, taken by New Horizons probe 15 minutes after it flew by the Pluto system in July. It shows more than a dozen thin haze layers extending from near the ground to at least 60 miles (100km) above the surface. Combined with other recently downloaded pictures, scientists say they now have evidence for a remarkably Earth-like 'water' cycle on Pluto - one that involves soft and exotic ices, including nitrogen, rather than water ice. The top right image shows the location of the glaciers seen in the panorama. The bottom right reveals local hills and small mountains on the surface.
Super-intelligent aliens could be trying to contact Earth, but humans are too stupid to pick up the signals, says Seti's top scientist
Exclusive: Dr Nathalie Cabrol (left), who is leading the hunt for alien life at the Seti Institute in California, says optical and radio (right) technologies may not be able to pick up messages from ET. 'If there is a civilisation out there that is only 1,000 years older than we are, who knows what type of technology or what type of process they've put into communicating with others,' she told Dailymail.com. She believes in our lifetime, we'll find simple alien organisms close to Earth and a replica of our planet in another galaxy.
Inside the cave that was home to Denisovans, Neanderthals AND Homo sapiens: Different species of early man used the same shelter for thousands of years
Geneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Munich, Germany, studied DNA from three teeth (like the one pictured top right) and a pinky bone (pictured bottom right) found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains (pictured left). They found they belonged to individuals who lived thousands of years apart. The findings have provided fresh clues about how this mysterious human species lived and even that they had a strong sense of 'home'.
Cosmic death spiral: Monster black holes in distant galaxy are set to collide with a blast 100 million times bigger than a supernovae
Astronomers at Columbia University in New York have discovered a pair of supermassive black holes are orbiting each other once every five years at 47 million miles per hour (pictured left and zoomed in right). The pair, which are being drawn ever closer together, are expected to collide in under a million years, releasing a huge blast across the universe.
Samsung's 'Foldable Valley' could launch in January: Flexible smartphone uses a bendy plastic display to open and close like a book
Rumours suggest the South Korean tech giant's 'Foldable Valley' handset will have a bendy plastic display so it can fold like a notebook (conceptual image shown). The handset is expected to launch as early as January 2016 and trusted rumour blog SamMobile is reported that anonymous sources claim the device is currently being tested in China.
Huge swarms of AI drones are coming: Team sets world record by launching 50 UAVs controlled by just ONE person
The 50 UAVs were launched and flown autonomously in two 'sub-swarms' of 25 UAVs each. Once in the air, the drones talked to each using high-powered Wi-Fi. Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, want to eventually create swarms of drones that act on their own on the battlefield.
Is the Earth causing the moon to SHRINK? Gravitational pull of our planet is creating thousands of cracks on the lunar surface
Scientists have spotted more than 3,200 faults - each several miles long and dozens of feet deep (pictured left) - on the surface of the moon, which appear to be caused by the tidal forces generated by the Earth (illustrated bottom right). These combine with the shrinkage of the moon's interior as it cools to leave large faults crisscrossing the surface (shown on the map top right).
Soldier of the future: Maps beamed to his glasses, helmet camera sending images to comrades and sensors to monitor his health
Military personnel going to war a decade from now will wear body armour, weapons and kit (above) that could have come straight out of sci-fi movies. Smart glasses will enable troops to see information on a small screen in front of their eye, allowing commanders to beam maps, tactics, enemy positions and video from surveillance drones to the mini-display. Lightweight helmets (inset) mounted with high-resolution cameras will send battlefield images to comrades on patrol to warn them of potential dangers such as booby-traps and ambushes. A wrist-worn device based on smart-watches and packed with state-of-the-art sensors will monitor a soldier's health and performance during combat - allowing an officer to pull him from a mission if they are flagging.
Pentagon may SCRAP $3.5 billion state-of-the-art warship that was tipped to transform US Navy fleet (...despite having already built half of it)
The Pentagon may scrap a $3.5 billion warship despite having already built half of it. In a shock turnaround, the USS Lyndon B Johnson may be dropped from production in just a few weeks as the Defense Department tightens its purse strings. It would be an embarrassing anti-climax for the Pentagon after years of hype surrounding the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer which is 41 per cent complete and was tipped to transform the US Navy's fleet.
Apple begins roll out of iOS 9: Software update promises to save battery life, speed up browsing, and even track your sex life
Starting from 10am PST (6pm BST) today, Apple began rolling out its next-generation software to iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch. The latest version, called iOS 9, was unveiled at Apple's WWDC conference in June and has been in beta with developers since. Other new features include live wallpapers, an updated keyboard and improved security. Apple's new Wallet is pictured top left, Split View is pictured bottom left and the Proactive Assistant is pictured right.
Mystery of the caverns littered with Bronze Age children's decapitated heads: Gruesome find in grounds of Prince Charles's old school in remote Scotland
Archaeologists made the grim discovery in a remote part of the estate of Gordonstoun near Inverness, whose former pupils also include five of the Queen's children and grandchildren. The cave (above), looking out from sea cliffs over the Moray Firth, was apparently used in funeral rituals from 1100 BC to 900 BC by the Pictish clans ruling Scotland at the time. Experts say the clans placed bodies in the cave to decompose so that bones could eventually be retrieved. They also say there are indications that it was later used for executions. Also pictured (inset): A Pict carving found inside.
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