Residents of Jiangxi and Foshan were stunned when they saw what they thought to be towering sky scrapers appearing from the clouds. The event was down to an optical illusion known as a Fata Morgana. A Fata Morgana is a type of mirage that distort distance objects, and can be can be seen on land or sea. It's caused by how our brains process light when it is bent through different densities of air.
The technology giant has been granted a patent for an iRing that will be able to take photographs, text and tell the time.
The flesh-eating beetles are used by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkley to preserve rare species.
Do YOU notice anything unusual about Saya, the Japanese girl taking the internet by storm?
The incredible images of Saya are actually computer generated - and the Japanese team who created her are set to bring her to life in a movie. The two Tokyo freelance artists posted the images online, and have since seen them reposted thousands of times as people trying to answer the question of whether they are photographs of a real person or not.
Get ready for 'The Monster': Forecasters reveal El Niño will bring a cold and wet winter but say it WON'T be enough to ease California's drought
- Hurricanes 'unlike anything you've seen in history': Scientists warn grey swan megastorms could ravage areas ranging from Florida to Dubai
- Lightning is so powerful it changes the atomic structure of rocks: Bolts pack a punch similar to a NUCLEAR BOMB or meteor impact
- Does Earth have SEVERAL moons? Space rocks that hop in and out of orbit could provide easy targets for asteroid exploration
The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration issued its winter forecast, saying El Nino will leave a big wet but not necessarily snowy footprint on much of the United States. This year's is one of the strongest El Ninos on record. NOAA expects a cooler and wetter winter for the South. For California, more precipitation than usual is expected during the critical time that its reservoirs usually fill, but there's no guarantee.
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- A decapitated women, sacrificial dogs and a wooden 'sex toy': Danish Iron Age remains reveal macabre practices
- The sun's sprung a leak! Enormous coronal hole that is 50-EARTHS-wide spotted on star (but don't worry, it's harmless)
- Is this evidence of a parallel universe? Sightings of a 'floating city' in China are simply an optical illusion, say scientists
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- The REAL science of zombies vs plants: Researchers uncover the process of turning flowers into 'living dead'
- Scott Kelly becomes US astronaut to spend the most time in space: Commander breaks the world record by living on ISS for 383 days (and he still has another 139 to go)
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- Lab-grown burgers 'will be on the menu by 2020': Scientists set up company to make stem cell meat an affordable reality
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- Artificial intelligence breakthrough as intuition algorithm beats humans in data test
- Is Alzheimer's caused by FUNGUS? Traces found in the brains of sufferers suggest the disease 'could caused by an infectious microbe'
- Drones have met their match: Portable 'gun' uses radio pulses to halt aircraft mid-air
- The pointlessness of the long distance runner: You can run as many marathons as you like but you'll still be fat, say scientists
- Get ready for 'The Monster': Forecasters reveal El Niño will bring a cold and wet winter but say it WON'T be enough to ease California's drought
- Artificial intelligence breakthrough as intuition algorithm beats humans in data test
- Is this evidence of a parallel universe? Sightings of a 'floating city' in China are simply an optical illusion, say scientists
- Watch flesh-eating beetles at work: Gruesome video shows creatures swarm to strip bodies to the bone for museums
- Triassic park! Researchers find dozens of weird dinosaurs in Utah including giant fanged pterosaur that would 'freak you out of your mind'
- But can it get Radio 4? Incredible video shows a novel (and dangerous) way listening to the radio – with a WEED held next to a 50,000-watt transmitter station
- Do YOU notice anything unusual about Saya, the Japanese girl taking the internet by storm?
- Scott Kelly becomes US astronaut to spend the most time in space: Commander breaks the world record by living on ISS for 383 days (and he still has another 139 to go)
- Ancient tombs in Cyprus reveal stunning treasures: Luxury items shed light on trade routes in Europe 2,400 years ago
- Six degrees of FRANCIS BACON: Interactive relationship maps shows 'friends of friends' for historical figures
- Now you can Skype with ANYONE using a browser: Feature lets you take calls without installing apps or creating accounts
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- Now alien hunters think they've seen 'Buddha' on Mars: Latest ridiculous claim is being used to prove existence of ET
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Captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory, the region occurs where a magnetic field fails to loop back down to the sun's surface and instead sends out coronal material. The high-speed solar wind originating from this coronal hole created a geomagnetic storm near Earth that resulted in several nights of auroras. The material that constantly flows from the sun is called the solar wind, which typically 'blows' at around 250 miles (400 km) per second. When a coronal hole is present, however, the wind speed can double to nearly 500 miles (800 km) per second.
Ancient tombs in Cyprus reveal stunning treasures: Luxury items shed light on trade routes in Europe 2,400 years ago
Three underground tombs have been discovered near the city of Soli in Cyprus, along with luxury drinking vessels (right), a gold wreath (bottom left), a figurine (inset) weapons and jewelry. The top left image shows a close up of one of the metal vessels. Researchers say some of the vessels found in Soli are similar to items typically created in Athens. This backs up written sources that show the city was supplying Athens with timber and copper in return for luxurious metal vessels.
The gadget that scans for CALORIES: $249 Scio uses beams of light to analyse the amount of fat, carbs and proteins in a food
The device (pictured), designed by Consumer Physics, an Israeli company, works by uses beams of light to analyse the molecular 'signature' of whatever it is scanning. To accurately assess the number of calories, the user would have to identify the portion size of the piece of food that is being scanned. The device may also prove useful to emergency services personnel for identifying pills using the same method.
Biology in ACTION: Impalas locking horns wins photography award, beating a 'scared' ant and mating toads on a lotus leaf
A striking image of male impala locking curly horns on the plains of Etosha National Park in Namibia (pictured left) has taken first place in the Royal Society of Biology's Photographer of the Year competition. Barbara Stanley captured the power struggle between two males during rutting season. A striking image of a 'lonely' flower 18,208 feet (5,550 metres) above sea level at Pensi La Pass mountain pass in Ladakh, India (top left) was the winning entry in the under-18's category. Other highly commended entries included photographs of Sri Lankan stilt fishermen, mating toads and a 'scared' ant (bottom right).
Creepy software puts YOUR expression onto another person's face to make them smile or frown
Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, and Stanford University created the technology, which could one day be used for dubbing films. A video demonstration shows a 'source actor' (pictured top left) who pulls various faces and speaks, while the 'target actor' (bottom left) keeps a straight face and remains mute. It then shows the target actor's face on the screen, making the same faces as the gurning source, only retaining their own facial features (pictured right).
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A decapitated women, sacrificial dogs and a wooden 'sex toy': Danish Iron Age remains reveal mysterious macabre practices
Archaeologists discovered the young woman's remains (pictured left) at Skødstrup near the city of Aarhus in Denmark, where they believe she was sacrificed around 2,000 years ago. Her bones were found in a heap, indicating she had been thrown into the bog along with two stakes, one with a sharp point. They found her skeleton near the remains of dogs (pictured bottom right) that were also sacrificed and thrown into bogs as an offering to the gods. The site once housed an Iron Age village (pictured top right).
Tesla's Model S autopilot can steer, park and change lanes by ITSELF - and Elon Musk said it will be 'better than a person'
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