Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil (pictured bottom right), founder of the California-based Singularity University, claims that by 2030s humans could be using nanobots (illustrated left) to connect our brains to the Cloud. He claims the technology could allow people to back up their memories and communicate by thought. It could also help to expand human creativity and emotions. Scientists are already developing nano-machines have created capsules of DNA that can change their shape in response to certain conditions in the body and a molecular 'car' that uses balls of carbon as wheels (illustrated top right).
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Scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, say the south pole of 67P (pictured left) is quite different from other regions of the comet with large amounts of transparent ice (pictured top right). Scientists believe this may form when gas that evaporates during the regions brief summer condenses as snow or hail as it is plunged back into a five year old winter of total darkness. The scientists say they hope to observe this happening in early 2016 when the south pole's summer is due to end. A picture of the duck-shaped 67P illuminated by sunlight is shown bottom right.
Mass mammoth 'grave' discovered in Siberia: 550 bones belonging to prehistoric beasts found lying in Russian wilderness
The bones were found close to the 2,268-mile-long Ob River (pictured). It is reported to be the fifth such necropolis in this sprawling Russian region (marked on map, top right). The latest mammoth cemetery contains the remains of at least 11 woolly beasts (bone specimen pictured bottom right), but further excavations are likely to reveal more. It is estimated that the bones found in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region are between 10,000 and 30,000 years old, but detailed analysis will be carried out to verify their age, and to establish why they came here to die.
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Where has the Marree Man gone? Mysterious giant carving in the Outback vanishes after it was first seen from space 17 years ago
The Marree Man, which was first sighted in the South Australian outback 17 years ago (left), can no longer be seen on Google Earth (right). Parts of the geoglyph can still be seen on the ground but that's expected to completely fade away within a year. Time and weather have taken their toll on the famous figure which has been gradually eroding.
'Aliens would NOT encrypt their messages': Author of The Martian dismisses claims that ET is sending secret codes to Earth
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The igloo that's out of this world: Martian 'ice house' wins Nasa contest to create habitat for first humans on the red planet
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Are these the faces of a murdered Scottish royal family? Reconstructions of Dark Age bodies could shed light on mysterious mass grave
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Will a 'Super Hubble' finally find alien life? Massive 39-foot-wide space telescope proposed to give high definition view of the universe
The High Definition Space Telescope (pictured bottom right), unveiled by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington DC, will be 100 times more powerful than Hubble. The multibillion dollar telescope, which will have mirror four times larger than Hubble (illustrated top right) will allow astronomers to spot signs of life on distant planets, characterise their atmospheres and to peer into some of the furthest reaches of the universe. Scientists say it will be a 'game changer' and could launch after 2030. A picture of the Milky Way is shown on the left.
From the alien lights of Occator to the mysterious pyramid mountain: First topographical maps of Ceres revealed (and scientists STILL don't know what the bright spots are)
Nasa has revealed the first in depth topological map of Ceres, revealing the strange, unexplained craters and mountains. Pictured, a colour-coded topographic map of Occator crater on Ceres. Blue is the lowest elevation, and brown is the highest. The crater, which is home to the brightest spots on Ceres, is approximately 56 miles (90 kilometers wide).
Could these dull-looking fossils shake our understanding of evolution to the core? Siberian find pushes back emergence of first vertebrates by 20 MILLION years
A fossils, found on the banks of the Maya River, could date back more than 500 million years. They are being hailed as a significant advance in 'our understanding of the evolution of animals'. The ancient marine organisms possess a 'complex constitution' and are believed to be the oldest in the world, predating finds in China and Namibia, which had a simpler structure. Professor Andrey Ivantsov of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said the organisms 'push the first appearance of skeletal animals on the Earth to 20 million years earlier than previously thought'.
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