The chief of the US Army Medical Corps Major General Steve Jones said he wants to reduce the risk to medics and other soldiers by using robots to carry injured soldiers from the battlefield.

Facebook 's Mark Zuckerberg, told conference attendees that virtual reality is "the next logical step" in online sharing after text, photos and video.

Four aircraft flying close to British airports have been involved in near-misses with drones in the the last month, with the incidents taking place close to Heathrow, Birmingham and London City airports.

Stores across Australia were the first to start selling the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, followed by London and the rest of Europe. The phone goes on sale at 8am in the respective time zones.

The act of 'unfriending' a colleague on Facebook is now considered a workplace bullying after a tribunal found the matter in Tasmania left the victim depressed, anxious and unable to work.

Ofcom announced today that mobile phone operators will have to pay £199.6 million a year for accessing 2G, 3G and 4G networks used by millions of their customers.

The four 20 kilowatt lasers fire simultaneously as a single powerful 80 kilowatt beam. The firm boasts units can even be combined for 'unlimited' power.

Their UC San Diego study found that, much like comedians, babies wait for the moment when their mother is at her most responsive before smiling.

Experts working on Springwatch say they constantly agonise over whether to save animals from perilous situations - and often decide to do so if it does not interfere with nature.

Scientists aren't sure what causes the pattern, but theories include the impact of plate tectonics rippling the surface, or frozen gasses that are released when surface temperatures increase.

The app was created by Montreal start-up, AmpMe and allows iOS and Android devices to play the same music together across both platforms to ramp up the sound at parties.

The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of bumblebees are about one-quarter shorter than they were 40 years ago,researchers found.

A haunting view of the total solar eclipse in March this year taken from the icy valleys of Svalbard, Norway (pictured), was named overall winner of the annual competition.

The school, named Ad Astra, is in southern California and shrouded in secrecy. Musk started it after discovering the current education system wasn't 'doing the things I thought should be done.'

The study was conducted by Melbourne's VicHealth organisation, which surveyed 1,923 people aged between 16 and 24 about their attitudes towards relationships

By studying the genes of sheep (stock image), experts from the University of Manchester found cells in a structure called the 'pars tuberalis' respond according to how much daylight there is.

Astronomers at Keele University were studying a galaxy called SAGE0536AGN and discovered it had a black hole at its heart that has a mass equivalent to 350 million of our suns.

By studying brain activity, neuroscientists from MIT identified the entorhinal cortext is responsible for processing location and time using 'ocean' and 'island' cells.

The soft palate - which separates the back of the mouth and nasal cavity - plays a key role in viruses' ability to travel through the air, say experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The maps reveal how water in mid September 2015 compares with averages for Septembers between 1948 and 2012, with warmer colours showing drier-than-average conditions.

By studying the genes of sheep (stock image), experts from the University of Manchester found cells in a structure called the 'pars tuberalis' respond according to how much daylight there is.

Lucy Kelly has set up a droid at the Sydney Apple store so she can be one of the first to purchase the iPhone 6s on Friday morning but doesn't have to leave work or stand waiting in the cold.

The study by Michigan University attributes the difference to the fact white men have less opportunity to develop coping mechanisms for stress compared to both black men and women.

Alien hunters claim to have spotted a stone circle in images sent back by the HiRise camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which they claim resembles Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.

Brazil's 24-seater VIX virtual reality ride, launching next month in the town of Vila Velha, took two years to complete and a 90-man team to assemble.

A computer scientist at Goldsmiths, University of London, analysed 50 of the greatest themes as picked out by music critics for features that seemed to make them stand out.

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.

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.

Earlier this week, the glider made history by soaring to 5,000ft (1,525 metres) during its maiden flight over Roberts Field, the Redmond Municipal Airport in Oregon (pictured).

During the latest expedition, professional divers were joined by archaeologists who spent a total of 40 hours at depths of 180ft (55-metre) off the coast of the Aegean island Antikythera.

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.

Chapman University in California also found that gender was the biggest factor that influenced what people were looking for in a long-term partner.

Paul Houle, 17, had been to football practice in Massachusetts, when his Apple Watch showed his heart rate was unusually high and doctors then found his organs beginning to shut down.

The images provide an insight into the lives of Scott Kelly, who is spending a year on the ISS, and his girlfriend Amiko Kauderer, who is in Texas, working as a public relations officer at Nasa.

The tour is a demo of the ongoing Enterprise 3D Construction Project, which will one day allow wearers of the California-designed Oculus Rift virtual reality headset wander unguided.

A study by the American Automobile Association found cars parked themselves with 47 per cent fewer manoeuvres and were able to 37 per cent closer to the curb than human drivers.

Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys after a breakthrough in results in animals - but stressed human trials still several years off.

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics have come up with a new way to clear the fog and spot hidden stars at the Milky Way's galactic centre (pictured).

Japan-based SoftBank included a clause in the ownership contract which said using Pepper the robot (pictured) for 'the purpose of sexual or indecent behavior' breaks this rental agreement.

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 man - who is being treated by spinal injury experts at the University of California - has his thoughts intercepted in a cap on his head and sent wirelessly to stimulate his leg muscles.

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.

Built for Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, superyacht 'A' is taking its test voyage in Kiel, northern Germany.

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.

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 tools are available on the web version of the site from today, and will begin rolling out to the Android app 'over the next week.' Users can unblock the addresses in Settings.

An Air Force General has told experts laser weapons could be in use by 2020 - telling sceptics 'that day is a lot closer than I think a lot of people think it is.'

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.

Historians believe they've found Leonardo's model buried under the altar of a derelict Florence convent. The bones found date to the time of death of Italian noblewoman Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo.

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.

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

Beijing based environmental monitoring project, the World Air Quality Index is publishing real time pollution maps across the world to reveal levels of harmful particulate matter.

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

University of Oregon researchers found that by sampling a person's microbial mist, it is possible to tell whether it has been emitted by a man or a woman - and even who it belongs to.

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.

US company Molon Labe Designs claims that its 'Sider Seat' will save airlines two hours of extra flying time each day and result in 'happy, loyal customers'.

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.

Anthropologists discovered the decapitated skull with two hands placed over its face (pictured) in a shallow pit in a cave in Lagoa Santa in east-central Brazil.

The unnamed 59-year-old housewife from Maryland died of a heart attack 20 years ago and her body was donated by her husband to a project to create the most detailed digital model of a human.

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.

Exclusive: Dr Nathalie Cabrol, who is leading the hunt for alien life at the Seti Institute in California, says optical and radio technologies may not be able to pick up messages from ET.

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

Purdue University researchers in Indiana, said the Hush tool for Android phones can reduce the total daily energy drain by 16 per per cent by shutting down apps (stock image).