Scientists created a tractor beam that uses high intensity sound waves to create 'acoustic holograms' that can manipulate objects.
UFO hunter, Scott Waring, who lives in Taiwan, said the 'bear' in the Nasa photograph of Gale Crater on Mars (ringed bottom left and right), has hair and is clearly living, although many people will think it's simply a rock. He even plans to alert the United Nations (UN) about the sighting. A stock image of a similarly-shaped young bear is shown top left).
NEW The system, dreamed up by an astrophysicist and his son in Oregon, could be to make TV coverage of sports more exciting by showing a ball's trajectory on top of the screen.
NEW Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, has found electric eels have a special mode of attack for killing particularly large prey.
NEW During Apple's latest fourth quarter earnings call, boss Tim Cook said that 30 per cent of customers who bought an iPhone recently had switched from an Android-based phone. The Move to iOS app is shown.
NEW Astronomers are studying Saturn's small moon Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon, Europa - both of which are believed to have habitable oceans that lie beneath their icy exterior.
Between 1992 and 2010, experts from the French National Centre for Scientific Research fitted king penguins with trackers. This allowed them to track the birds in the Indian Ocean.
A dust detector invented by University of Western Australia professor Brian O'Brien in 1966 has helped answer a question that's baffled scientists for decades.
NEW Based on the technology currently being used in Google's driverless cars, as well as the companies working with Apple for its Car-Play software, Re/Code has designed an Apple car 'X-ray' (pictured). The chips used to power the electronics are shown as Qualcomm and Samsung, while firms listed under the camera section include Mobileye and Valeo.
The Australian accent developed because so many early settlers were such big drinkers that the distortion to their speech caused a verbal hangover that persists to this day.
The announcement was made by Facebook's David Marcus. Message Requests will soon start appearing at the top of a person's main inbox in the Messenger app (pictured).
Personal details of more than 600,000 customers stolen from companies in the UK last year. And they are available to buy on the black market of the internet for less than £20, it has been reported.
A leading cosmologist at Harvard University claims a dense disk of dark (illustrated) matter in the heart of the Milky Way may have sent a comet on a collision course with Earth.
Men and women who did a singing lessons at night school became friends more quickly than those who signed up for other classes, researchers at Oxford University found.
Psychologists from the University of Montreal, Canada, said babies get 'carried away' by music, suggesting they have the mental capacity to be enthralled.
Scientists at the University of Bristol and the University of Sussex have created a tractor beam that uses high intensity sound waves to create 'acoustic holograms' that can manipulate objects. This allows small objects to be lifted, moved, rotated and fitted together (main picture) as if they are being held between a pair of fingers (top left) or a pair of tweezers. However, unlike the tractor beam on the USS Enterprise (top right), it would not work in outer space as sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum. Instead the device may find use in the electronics industry or for conducting delicate surgery.
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Scientists in France have created a 'wall-less Hall thruster' prototype (bottom right) that uses a 45,000 mph stream of plasma to push spacecraft forward. Because they consume 100 million times less fuel than conventional chemical rockets, a Hall thruster is ideal for exploring Mars, asteroids and the edge of the solar system.By saving fuel, the thruster could leave room for spacecraft and send a large amount of cargo in support of space missions, researchers claim. On the top right is a conventional hall thruster, on which the latest design (left) was based.
Simon McKeown, a lecturer at Teesside University, argues that within 50 years people people could be kept alive forever as avatars that can interact with their relatives.
A video , by the American Chemical Society, reveals how fear and pain change the brain's chemical make up. It also explains how the brain experiences an extra jolt of life just before before it dies.
The Air Force has chosen Northrop Grumman Corp., maker of the B-2 stealth bomber, to build its next-generation bomber.
Apple's quarterly revenue rose 22.3 percent as sales of iPhones jumped 36 percent, driven by the launch of the 6S and 6S Plus models last month.
Twitter added just four million monthly active users in the last three months, as the social media site also reported a net loss of 132 million US dollars (£86 million) in its latest financial results.
An international team of scientists led by Lund University in Sweden have warned solar storms, which are eruptions on the sun (illustrated), could be much more powerful than first thought.
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh-led Dogslife Project said chocolate-coloured labs fare the worst, weighing on average 1.4kg (3lbs) more than the yellow and black variety.
The updates (pictured) began rolling out to US users on Android and iOS on Monday, but it is not known when or if the changes will be seen in other regions.
The RF Capture device was developed by researchers at MIT. It works by scanning a room in 3D by transmitting wireless signals through the wall. These signals reflect off everything behind it, including a person's body, to create a silhouette (pictured). These silhouettes are so accurate, the machine can distinguish between specific body parts and poses. They can then be compared to a database of bodies to identify who they belong to.
The intimate moment, clearly showing a calf suckling, was captured off the San Juan Islands, North of Seattle.
Dubbed Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), the reactor in Greifswald, Germany is hoped to continuously contain super-hot plasma for more than 30 minutes at a time.
Scientists at Royal Holloway University of London have found evidence of widespread fires (pictured) even in areas that were wet bogland during the Permian Period.
The Historical Clinicopathological Conference at the University of Maryland has heard a new theory for what killed the man who led the English revolution against the monarchy.
The cafe has been opened in an old cellar in Old Portsmouth. It took its owner Steve Lowe (pictured) 30 years to collect the consoles and seven months to fit the consoles.
Taiwan-based Innerexile's screen protector is available to pre-order from Amazon for $24 (£16) for the iPhone 6 and 6s and $26 (£17) for the larger Plus models.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tested male and female actors in a scene in which they fire an employee and found women's testosterone levels rose shot through the roof.
It can strike at any time of the day and night and the first a woman knows it will happen is when her waters break. Researchers believe they have now found a chemical sign that could tell.
Harvey Robertson was on a boat trip on the west coast of Greece, 20 miles south of Albania, when he took pictures in a sea cave. He was shocked to discover an unidentifiable creature that evokes images of Greek mythology had been captured on film.
The 11,500-year-old skeletons found in Alaska are significant because the date of the burials is a few thousand years after the first dispersal of people from Beringia into the Americas.
A Nasa analysis of dust collected from the ISS found that Actinobacteria, a type of bacteria associated with human skin, made up a large proportion of the microbial community.
Lions in West and Central Africa have seen sharp declines since the 1990s and are most at risk of losing more than 50 per cent of their numbers in the next 20 years, a new study has warned.
Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford have reanalysed data concerning Alpha Centauri Bb, thought to be orbiting our nearest star, and found it may be an 'ghost' in the data.
The study, led by the University of California, estimated size ranges for Pleistocene predators using fossils and compared these sizes to the size of mammoths and mastodons.
Researchers from The University of Texas have uncovered a cellular signal in the amniotic fluid around the foetus that builds up when a pregnant woman is about to go into labour.
Leaked images spotted by German website Mobile Geeks seem to show Apple Music features including Beats 1 Radio and the built-in social network Apple Music Connect.
An analysis of hot dogs and sausages that examined 345 samples representing 75 brands sold at ten food retailers found ten per cent of vegetarian products contained meat and some also contained human DNA.
Known as 1991 VG, the object was first spotted in 1991 by astronomer James Scotti at the University of Arizona. It's unusual because of its strange rotation and longevity in space. This has led to theories that it is a man-made object or an alien craft. Since Scotti first spotted VG 1991, astronomers have discovered that asteroids under 100 meters have remarkably fast rotations. As a result Scotti says we can't rule out the possibility that VG 1991 is a natural space rock. Pictured is its orbit.
If carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current pace, by the end of century parts of the Persian Gulf will be just too hot for the human body to tolerate, a new study has found.
Scientists at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria, have discovered that the drug montelukast is able to reverse the brain's ageing process in rats.
Researchers from Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science in Berlin, say plenty of other tetrapods (one illustrated) may have been able to re-grown their limbs like modern salamanders.
Inspired by the body of an Asian beetle, experts from Saudia Arabia have used the structure of the insect's scales to create an ultra-black material made of a nanorod attached to a nanosphere (pictured).
Verizon Communications Inc, Cablevision Systems Corp and Time Warner Cable are the subject of a new probe by the New York attorney general.
WTF1190F (circled in this image from a Hawaiian telescope) is set to crash into the Indian Ocean, around 40 miles (65km) off the southern tip of Sri Lanka, at 6:20 UTC on November 13.
Maine-based space blogger Jim Galasyn proposes that the dips in 'flux' around KIC 8462852 (pictured) are caused by the star having a lopsided disc, and two planets obstructing its view.
A study by scientists at the University of Vermont and University of Oxford has found that extinctions of large animals like mammoths and whales has resulted in a massive drop in nutrient recycling.
Nasa has found black hole's flare, 324 million light-years away, was caused by the ejection of its corona. This is a mysterious source of highly energetic particles that generates X-ray light. This diagram shows a corona, can create a flare of X-rays around a black hole. The corona (feature represented in purplish colours) gathers inward (left), becoming brighter, before shooting away from the black hole (middle and right). Astronomers don't know why the coronas shift, but they have learned that this process leads to a brightening of X-ray light that can be seen by telescopes.
Just one of the genetically engineered tomatoes grown by British scientists contains as much of the grape compound resveratrol as 50 bottles of red wine.
The discovery marks the first time ethyl alcohol has been seen in a comet. It adds to evidence that comets could have been a source of the complex molecules necessary for the emergence of life.
Astronomers have for the first time probed magnetic fields in the mysterious inner regions of stars, finding they are strongly magnetised, and in some cases 10 million times stronger than Earth's.
Research by scientists at the University of Manchester found the more opiate receptors an individual has, the better able they are to resist pain.
Facebook's engineering manager Ari Grant said the problems were caused by two issues. The first was caused by 'CPU spin' in the app's network code that meant requests were being constantly repeated.
The study by the University of Western Australia and the Australian National University, Canberra, suggests Aboriginals formed close bonds with dingoes as soon as they arrived 4,000 years ago.
The plain cracker was sold by Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers in Devizes in Wiltshire and fetched 5,000 ($7656) more than it was expected to go for. The cracker survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
The drugs work by inhibiting a family of enzymes inside hair follicles that are suspended in a resting state, effectively 'waking' the hair.
World View hopes to begin offering $75,000 passenger flights to the edge of space in 2017 - on capsules that will have wifi and even a bar. The firm has now completed its highest tests ever, sending a scale model of the capsule to over 100,000 feet. when finalised, the six person capsule (bottom right) will contain viewing windows (top right).
During tests, Google engineers who design the algorithms correctly ranked 70 per cent of sites from a range of search terms while RankBrain achieved a score of 80 per cent.
New flexible material can block electronic emission, stopping cybersnooping and thwarting attacks from electromagnetic 'doomsday' weapons.
Stunning photographs capture the moment ravenous lions feast on the body of a hippo that had strayed from a river in the South Luangwa Valley, in Zambia, in Africa.
Nasa and Esa used gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe.
Engineers at Harvard in Massachusetts, created the drone, which is smaller than a paperclip and flaps its wings nine times a second to enable it to swim underwater (pictured).
Twitter Inc Chief Executive and co-founder Jack Dorsey said on Thursday he is giving a third of his stock in the company, about 1 percent, valued at $197 million to the employee equity pool.
The University of Michigan study found that cheese is as addictive as drugs because of a chemical called casein that can trigger the brain's opioid receptors.
The New York-based bank say the new approach would be more secure and would mean that cards could never be skimmed at an ATM again, making life harder for criminals and identity thieves.
Scientists from the Russian Academy of Science are preparing four rhesus macaques (one pictured bottom left and drinking juice top right) to train them to be able to make the flight. The animals are being trained three hours a day so they can travel safely into outer space, and eventually land on Mars (colony concept pictured top left) in the next two years. This training includes learning how to use a joystick and solving puzzles.
On Wednesday, Nasa's Cassini probe will shoot through a fountain erupting from Saturn's frozen moon, Enceladus (pictured), at an altitude of 30 miles, in the hope of discovering signs of life.
This is the amazing picture of a Great Mormon Butterfly, which was born hatched half male and half female. The left hand side of the butterfly is male, denoted by its black wing, while the yellow wing is female.
Two electrical engineers caught the rare spectacle on camera in the Ebro Valley of north eastern Spain. The duo shot the footage in slow motion, taking 11,000 frames a second.
The Finnish firm behind the computer says: 'Solu is an exceptionally beautiful, cloud-linked computer.' It is made from glass and wood with an operating system designed to mimic the brain.
Satellites are becoming 'trophy attacks' for hackers, a a senior strategist at the European Space Agency has warned.
The social networking giant said its users are already making over 1.5 billion searches per day - and it will now index all of its posts - which currently number 2 trillion.
Instagram's Boomerang is a free app available on iOS and Android. It takes a burst of photos and stitches them together into a mini-video that plays forward and backward on a loop.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies says the five-mile (8km) test track in Quay Valley, California, will transport 10 million people throughout its trial phase.
The discovery was made in the Sakha Republic, otherwise known as Yakutia, this summer and scientists believe the two 'sensational' cubs are the best preserved ever found (one pictured left). It's hoped the cubs will shed light on the ancient predator (shown top right in a replica cave painting) and help to explain why it died out, especially as the ferocious cat had few predators and was not as prone to getting stuck in swamps as mamoths. The Academy of Science of Yakutia will formerly introduce the cubs at a press conference late next month, along with other Ice Age animals preserved in the region, including Yuka the mammoth (bottom right).
Popcorn Time (pictured) lets you stream films and TV shows from torrents. Serbian developer Milan Kragujevic recently launched a browser app but it has come under fire from the authorities.
The middle finger icon was welcomed by users all over the world, many of whom were devastated when it didn't appear in the iOS 9 update. The release also includes 49 bug fixes.
The meteorological summer of June-July-August in the Northern Hemisphere saw its highest globally averaged temperature since records began in 1880, the NOAA said.
University of Cambridge researchers have revealed that male howler monkeys with larger throats tend to have more diminutive testes and produce less sperm than quieter monkeys.
Astronomers from Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany made the film (still pictured) using data collected by the Stella robotic telescopes on Tenerife.
Men who claimed to be more attracted to women who were cleverer than them in fact distanced themselves when they physically met one and were less likely to ask her out, research has shown.
DisneyLife (pictured) is launching in the UK on iOS and Android, including Chromecast, in November and will roll out to other European markets in the future.
Red combines ad-free videos, new original series and movies from top YouTubers like PewDiePie, and on-demand unlimited streaming music for $10 a month.
Miki Agrawal, born in Montreal, Canada, has invented a mini bidet-like device (shown left) called the Tushy that can be clipped onto most toilets. The compact product is designed to clean people's backsides by shooting a jet of water where needed (illustrated top right). It comes in two varieties, one of which allows warm water to be used (both illustrated bottom right).
The wooden coffin of the unknown soldier - evidently a person of some importance - was found on the site of the Mycenaean-era Palace of Nestor on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula.
Designer Marek Weidlich's concept shows an iPhone where the entire front is a screen, removing buttons entirely. Instead, users simply push on the screen to access buttons.
Designers Charles Bombardier and Ray Mattison envisage the craft could be launched using a magnetic railgun system to catapult it into the sky to reach a staggering Mach 10.
Oxford University scientists created a series of body maps to develop a 'touchability index' (pictured). This provides colour-coded information on where people are comfortable to be touched.
London-based Andrew Robinson, author of ' The Indus: Lost Civilizations', says digital approaches to finding patterns in their mysterious script may soon help decipher the Indus language.
Astronomers at the University of Maryland, observed the event, which is the closest tidal disruption discovered in about a decade.
The video, created by Canada-based AsapScience, describes a hypothetical scenario in which our bodies are part-human part-machine.
The new data shows that Kerberos appears to have a double-lobed shape, with the larger lobe approximately 5 miles (8 km) across and the smaller lobe approximately 3 miles (5 km) across.
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.
Wal-Mart has applied to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones
for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse
inventories.
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.
British astrophysicist and cosmologist, Sir Martin Rees, believes if we manage to detect aliens, it will not be by stumbling across organic life, but from picking up a signal made by machines.
The patent was filed in April 2014 and awarded yesterday. The retractable 'bumpers' could be fitted to the front of a future device and extend if built-in sensors determine the phone is falling.
The sword (pictured) was found by a hiker in Haukeli in central southern Norway. It is 30-inches (77cm) long and is believed to date back to between 750AD and 800AD.
University of Michigan researchers hope the new medicine will become a vital 'broad spectrum anti-viral' that could protect humanity from some of the most vicious diseases - perhaps even Ebola.
The unique watch, which was worn by US astronaut Colonel Dave Scott during the 1971 Apollo 15 mission, was auctioned in Boston, Massachusetts.
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 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.
The University of Cambridge say the ancestral plague would have been spread by human-to-human contact - until genetic mutations allowed the bacteria to survive inside fleas.
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.
Architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan will use infrared technology and detectors to map two pyramids at Giza and the two Dahshur pyramids, south of Cairo.
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.
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 La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany observed juvenile saltwater crocodiles (stock image) in an aquarium.
Using Nasa's Kepler space telescope, scientists spotted the doomed planetary object from the dip in brightness caused when an orbiting body crosses in front of a star.
University of Utah researchers said that just because the ability to use voice commands - such as Siri and Cortana - are available to use in a car, doesn't mean they should be used.
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology found that people with autism were strongly attracted to the centre of images, regardless of the content placed there.
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.
Astronomers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have compiled the largest astronomical image to date, which led to a single 194GB file.
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.
Researchers say there are 'significant' differences in the way male and female hearts change over time - and that gender-specific treatments may be needed.
Researchers discovered the unconfirmed evidence in specks of graphite trapped within immensely old zircon crystals from Jack Hills, Western Australia.
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.
Photographer Bjørn Jørgensen captured the amazing image above Grotfjord, Norway. It appears to show a giant bald eagle, wings spread, eclipsing much of the sky.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
Flesh-eating beetles sound like a nightmare, but for researchers at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkley, they are a common and effective tool to preserve rare species.
Scientists in Oregon and Germany examined a skin shed by a California king snake (stock image shown) under a microscope to reveal the molecular make-up of the scales' surfaces.
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