The animation, created using images released by New Horizons last week, flies north over Pluto's Sputnik Planum and Cthulhu Regio regions and then moves east.

In two separate studies, researchers at Chicago University found that people are chronically lonely shun interaction because their brains are more vigilant to threats from friends and family.

Scientists at the Institute for Space, Astrophysics and Planetology in Rome have used data from the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to figure out how ice accumulates on the comet's surface.

One in four 18 to 34-year-olds admit they think showing emotions is a sign of weakness, compared with just one in ten over-55s, researchers found.

FreedomPop (logo pictured) has been operating in the US for three years, with almost one million customers, and 250,000 Britons have been using a beta service since May.

Bournemouth-based How It Works magazine has studied the science behind cute faces and revealed the allure is down to our evolutionary need to take care of and protect our own children.

Swiss researchers have trained several aerial drones to design and build a suspension bridge made of rope across a 24 foot gap between two large scaffolding towers.

The report, from Ohio-based Goodyear, found that 37% of young drivers would be happy with some level of autonomy, while 42% would be happy with a medium level of autonomy.

The Cerberus Digital Canine Transmitter, developed by Dorset-based Cobham Tactical Communications and Surveillance, is a pop up camera that can be mounted to a dog harness.

A Demolition Ranch YouTube video shot in Texas shows that handguns are ineffective at forcibly opening padlocks but shotguns can get the job done in one or two shots.

The first reviews for Apple's iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have been revealed - and they universally call it the best iPhone ever.

The strap (pictured) was designed by Warsaw-based uBirds and is live on Kickstarter. It pairs with a free app for both iOS and Android devices and users can tailor alerts and notifications.

The highest levels of heavy metals - copper, lead, nickel and zinc - were found in Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar, where well-preserved Neanderthal hearths have been found.

The animal was a variety of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed in herds, said Pat Druckenmiller, earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks.

Some of Britain's biggest firms are snapping up programs which can analyse a photo and tell whether someone is a smoker, has been ill or is likely to have a shorter than normal life.

People who lied to an interviewer while needing to urinate were better at evading detection, the psychologists from California State University said.

Based on Earth being the size of a half-inch marble, the team calculated the scale sizes of each orbit and planet, which were represented by balls and lightbulbs.

Even celery, which is often thought of as the dieter's friend, doesn't magic excess weight away, said the researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr Richard House, a former senior lecturer at Winchester University, warned that devices such as tablets are 'unnecessary, inappropriate and harmful' for young children.

Around half of us think we're missing a toe when we count them with our eyes closed, according to a bizarre Oxford University study. Researchers found the second toe is the most likely to be lost.

Bacteria plays a central role in our lives - good and bad. A study says only 61% of women and 37% of men wash hands after the loo, so buck the trend and scrub your hands for 15 seconds every time.

The skeletons (pictured) were found in the Frankfurt's western Roedelheim district and its thought the soldiers were buried in a hurry, with many succumbing to battle wounds and typhus.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany set up a speed-dating session for zebra finches (stock image) to study natural selection.

Christine Hamlett, of Northwich, Cheshire, took the photo after visiting the resting place of the 15th century monarch earlier this month

Starting from 10am PST, Apple began rolling out its latest software to iPhones, New features include live wallpapers, better battery life, a smart news app and an updated keyboard.

The company is tripling the number of engineers on the project, code-named Titan, and has set a 'ship date' for within four years, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Geneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Munich, Germany, studied DNA from teeth and a pinky bone found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains (pictured).

The remains of the settlement, which is thought to have collapsed due to an earthquake, were uncovered on the 'big island' of Durankulak Lake in the North East of Bulgaria.

The bacteria, seen as a potential elixir of life, was found in 2009, embedded in ancient permafrost at a site known as Mammoth Mountain in Yakutia, the largest region in Siberia.

Scientists at the University of Valencia in Spain were surprised to discover DNA from parasitic wasps (pictured) in the genomes of several species of butterfly.

Dr Ian Pearson from Ipswich made the predictions alongside Bathrooms.com, including that smart mirrors could perform health checks and let people try on make-up looks in 20 years' time.

PETA filed a lawsuit on Tuesday arguing that a macaque monkey who took a selfie that's now published in nature photographer David Slater's book should have ownership of photo.

Researchers discovered the strange, pillared structure at the Horbat Ha-Gardi site on the side of a highway near Modi'in, an ancient city partly located in Israel.

Shira the gorilla lost her one-week-old daughter at Frankfurt Zoo, Berlin, and keepers have yet to retrieve the body as she refuses to realise the little gorilla baby is dead

A 3D food printer by XYZ in Taiwan can create tasty treats (pictured) by layering ingredients before they are baked in an oven.

The security breach took place after hackers convinced legitimate developers to use a tainted and counterfeit version of Xcode - the software provided by Apple for creating iOS and Mac apps.

Speaking from Moscow, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (stock image) told Neil deGrasse Tyson he thinks aliens may encrypt their communications.

The pyramids (a ruin is shown) were found close to the ancient town of Gematon in Sudan, which as part of the ancient kingdom of Kush.

Harmony Elite (pictured) was unveiled at this month's IFA conference in Berlin. It works with the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled Logitech Hub which connects all the devices together.

Half of the skeleton (pictured) was found trapped in the roots of a birch tree in Collooney, Sligo in Ireland, which blew over in the winter storms of last year.

The 7-inch (18-cm) Fire tablet is part of new family of tablets being launched by the online giant, along with an upgraded streaming media device and a game controller box.

Nasa scientists have spotted more than 3,200 faults (pictured) - each several miles long and dozens of feet deep - on the moon's surface, caused by tidal forces generated by the Earth.

A group of weather experts at the University of California this week warned the weather system may not behave as many have predicted, causing more drought in the region.

The device (pictured), designed by Alternative Ballistics in San Diego, California, takes the form of a metal ball or 'bullet capture device' that is fitted over the barrel of a gun.

Farnborough-based BAE Systems has begun night trials on the Striker II (pictured) helmet-mounted display (HMD) in the hope they will lead to a fully integrated digital night vision helmet.

The Kiwi berry is being grown on 7ft vines at Withers Farm, run by George Leeds, in Ledbury, Herefordshire - and will be stocked in 200 Waitrose stores over the next few weeks.

Apple took home four awards, for: 'Brand of the year', 'laptop of the year' and its Apple Watch, which was crowned 'wearable of the year' as well as 'gadget of the year' at the ceremony in London.

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 shed has been designed by Leeds-based Tiger Sheds in response to a survey that claims a quarter of Britons are too scared to venture into the sheds for fear of meeting a spider.

Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, want to eventually create swarms of drones that act on their own on the battlefield.

Residential emissions - those from heating and cooking - prevalent in India and China have the largest impact on global air pollution, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry experts said.

Scientists at the University of Miami working with Darpa have developed a robotic arm (pictured) that can allow patient's to'feel' by sending tiny electrical signals to an implant in their brain.

Comet (pictured) was designed by California-based Prashanth Raj Urs. It has a 4.7-inch screen, 16MP camera and runs Android. The phone is IPx7 water-resistant and launched on Indiegogo.

YouTubers the Slo Mo Guys visited Taser International in Scotsdale, Arizona, to film a Taser being fired at a volunteer at a rate of 28,500 frames per second.

Twitter added its Buy button option to profiles in the US last year and it is now available globally. To make a purchase on Twitter, users can simply tap the button (pictured) embedded into tweets.

The new report found a 49 per cent drop in numbers among the 6,000 populations studied around the world, including leatherback turtles (pictured).

The gravity-defying 360 degree stunt was performed by the British car-maker's new F-PACE sports utility vehicle in Frankfurt on the eve of the city's prestigious international motor show.

Children are picking up technology obsession from their parents - and that is beginning to affect their mental health and school work, says London-based child health education specialist Dr Aric Sigman.

The idea of a dolphin 'collective soul' was proposed in the 1980s by paleoneurologist Harry Jerison and the theory has now been discussed in Susan Casey's new book Voices in the Ocean.

Scientists from Harvard and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, used a non-invasive way of stimulating the brain using magnetic fields to study the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (illustrated in green)

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

A robot ethicist has warned that AI sex dolls could 'contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women.'

Sociologists at the University of Oxford surveyed 78,000 people about their involvement in the arts and found social class and wealth played little role in determining their participation.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore analysed the tooth enamel of 152 fossils of early humans, primates and other mammals from across Africa.

The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and affects devices running Android Lollipop 5.0 and above.

The 85 inch (2.16 metre) LV-85001, which will be available from Japan, will have 16 times as many pixels as 1080p high definition televisions.

Findings into children's late night use of Facebook and Twitter will be revealed at the British Educational Research Association's annual conference in Belfast tomorrow.

Researchers from the UK's Met Office say a major El Niño event in the Pacific could heat the world overall, marking an end to the slowdown in global warming.

The system collects data on patients every three minutes, measuring everything from oxygen levels to blood pressure to give doctors 'everything we need to know about a patient'.