Astronomers at the University of Maryland, observed the event, which is the closest tidal disruption discovered in about a decade.

A Dutch team proved the phenomenon using entangled electrons held in tiny diamond traps 0.8 miles (1.3km) apart on opposite sides of the campus at Delft University.

Described by its San Francisco-based developers as 'crowdsourced dating intelligence', The Know lets people add details about their partners and compare this with others.

The agency's Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges of the journey to Mars and the first exploration class rocket since the Saturn V.

Today is the day in Back to the Future Part II that Marty McFly and 'Doc' Brown (Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd) arrive in Hill Valley after travelling forward in time from 1985.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) say the system, named VFTS 352 (artist's impression pictured), lies about 160 000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The 53-year-old Russian investor says he wants every single screen in his San Francisco home to display streams from Nasa's Kepler space telescope.

Two videos show US cars using the new software swerving out of their lane. Tesla says the autopilot functionality is still in test mode and full 'hands-off' driving is not recommended.

California residents are being warned to prepare for El Niño - as Nasa revealed the phenomenon will be the most watched in history and showed off a new satellite animation of the phenomenon forming.

With each upward degree, global warming will singe the economies of three-quarters of the world's nations and widen the north-south gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new study.

In-situ Fabricator (pictured) has been designed at the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication laboratory by a team of experts led by Matthias Kohler.

The arrows (pictured) were collected from five sites in Guatemala, including a temple at Zacpetén, where bloodletting ceremonies took place around 500 years ago.

The $750 (£483) Kenbak-1 was designed by John Blakenbaker in LA before microprocessors were available and its memory contained just 256 bytes.

German restoration specialists are restoring the 3,300 year-old mask at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to remove a crust of dried glue on the beard of the boy pharaoh's funerary headdress.

Professor Vladimir Romanovsky has warned that permafrost in Alaska could start to thaw by 2070, which could trigger the release of methane frozen in the earth.

Each of the pits and troughs - typically hundreds of meters across and tens of meters deep - were spotted in the area, informally known as Sputnik Planum.

The Cyber IQ test was compiled by Slovakian internet security firm Eset. It includes a total of 16 questions. The first question is divided into eight true or false statements.

The shower can be seen from around the world. The best time to see it is during moonset at 1:30am local daylight time on Thursday, although you may spot some meteors before then on Wednesday night.

The industrious rodents (stock image shown main) could help slow the flow of water heading to the sea by building dams, to create extra reserves of water, ecologists from Sonoma County in California claim.

The Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control (ABC) turret is the first turret ever to demonstrate a 360-degree field of regard for laser weapon systems on an aircraft flying near the speed of sound.

EXCLUSIVE: The footage, taken at Howletts Wild Animal Park near Canterbury, Kent, shows the baby dropping to the floor before his mother, Damara, spins and looks at him for the first time.

Almost 500 burials have been found on the site of Marsh Creek in California. Eight of these bodies were interred with an extra skull (pictured) and seven were buried missing their skull.

A strange pig-snouted turtle that lived alongside tyrannosaurs and duck-billed dinosaurs has been discovered in Utah.

The x2 Sport Underwater Jet Pack is designed by Portsmouth-based firm, SCP Marine Innovation, which is raising money on Indiegogo to put the gadget into production.

Three underground tombs have been discovered near the city of Soli in Cyprus, along with luxury drinking vessels, a gold wreath (pictured), weapons and jewellery.

The predictions have been made futurologists from Australian universities who foresee 'talking' buildings, self-healing planes and pods (pictured) and the end of windows by 2045.

Over the next week, 60,000 people who own Tesla's latest Model S car will be given the option to download the software wirelessly, or 'over the air', in North America, Europe and Asia.

Teacher Andy Brunning, based in Cambridge, explains how the glue's secret lies in cyanoacrylate, a substance once thought completely useless as it was so sticky.

The California-based social network told MailOnline it is looking into the battery life claims, but noted 'the issue is not caused by improper background location collection.'

A DNA study has found man's best friend may have evolved somewhere near what is now Nepal and Mongolia, researchers say.

The new laws seek to give security agencies the right to access people's phones and computers and control them to carry out surveillance which they say is necessary to combat cyber-crime and terrorism.

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.

A neuroscientist at the University of Missouri claims defunct muscles behind our ears show that ancient neural circuits responsible for moving the ears may still respond to sounds.

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.

Boeing says an egg wrapped in the new material would survive a 25 story drop. They expect to use it to reduce the weight of planes, and is so light that is can sit on top of a a dandelion.

Researchers at Penn State University found that the gender gap in pay and performance review grew alongside the number of men in the profession and the complexity of the job.

The 'Coffin of the Future' design was created by Perfect Choice Funerals in Solihul in the West Midlands to see how different technologies could be incorporated into a funeral.

A complex question about a crocodile stalking its prey that baffled Scottish schoolchildren was far too challenging, examiners have admitted.

Chinese scientists have created genetically-engineered extra-muscular dogs after editing the genes of Beagles named Hercules and Tiangou (stock picture shown).

The discovery, by Imperial College London, could help scientists find a way to diagnose the early onset of schizophrenia, helping them provide treatment before symptoms get worse.

By downloading the free 'Forcy' app, iPhone users with iOS 9 can get some of the same features as the new iPhone 6s without paying out for the new model.

Experts at the Universities of Cardiff and Cambridge have used black and white images to show hallucinations may be caused by a natural process used by the brain to make sense of things.

A few yellow-bellied sea snakes, which have highly poisonous venom and usually call warm tropical waters home, washed up at the high tide at Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard in the past week.

Scientists discovered fragments of woolly mammoth skin along with other remains from six of the ice age giants on the Lyakhovsky Islands, off the coast of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean.

The computer simulations and model (pictured) were tested and built by computer scientist Nathan Myhrvold and University of Alberta palaeontologist Philip Currie.

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.

The figures have been taken from California-based Intel Security's The Hidden Data Economy report. On the dark web, stolen cards (stock image) are worth $5 in the US, or $45 in the EU.

Single mothers who used a sperm bank to get pregnant said they and their children didn't suffer any greater than those in a traditional family unit, according to the study by Cambridge University.

Researchers at the University of Padova suggest the shroud travelled the world extensively, moving from Jerusalem to Turkey to France before ending up in its in Turin, Italy.

The jury in Madison, Wisconsin set the amount after around three hours of deliberations. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Warf) had asked for $399 million (£257 million).

The images were captured by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft during its 14 October flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Cassini passed 1,142 miles (1,839km) above the surface.

In the coming weeks U.S. officials hope to confirm a manufacturing deal with Boeing to develop a new model to meet the requirements of a 21st century president.