Kjell Lindgren, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Kononenko landed in windy conditions on the snow covered Kazakhstan steppe. The trio spent 141 days living in orbit on the International Space Station.

Gary Campbell, keeper of the official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, said it had been a vintage year for 'sightings' of the famous creature in Scotland.

Researchers at Stanford University used CT scans to study a mysterious mummy donated to San Francisco's de Young Museum and found her brain still inside the skull (pictured).

What is the cost of a Death Star? An assistant professor in Missouri has calculated the Galactic economy, and as it turns out, destroying two Death Stars would result in catastrophic losses.

Developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, these models show a star that's around the same mass as our sun but spinning five times faster.

Previously dubbed 'Kingdom Tower', the 170-storey building is to rise more than a kilometre (almost 3,300 feet), surpassing Dubai's Burj Khalifa as the world's highest building.

Fritz Vollrath from the University of Oxford, analyzed the powers of Spider-Man and compared them to the capabilities of real spiders, to see if the super powers have a basis of science.

This will be the first time the SpaceX rocket has flown from Florida in the past six months, following an explosion in June when carrying supplies to the ISS.

The fossil of an aquatic dinosaur with owl-like eyes has been unearthed in Japan. The 72-million-year-old fossil of a mosasaur is the first of its kind to be found in this region

The i8 Spyder convertible is expected to preview some of the changes that will appearing in the mid-cycle update of the i8. It may be unveiled at CES in Las Vegas in January.

University of Pittsburgh researchers surveyed 450 middle-aged adults and discovered that 'social jet lag' - waking up earlier on work days and sleeping in on days off - was worse for health than actual jet lag.

Nasa's New Horizon's probe recently took the closest images ever of a distant Kuiper Belt object, capturing a mysterious object passing 3.3 billion miles from the Sun.

Researchers from the Center for Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona released a new study showed 41% of participants said they sleep better with pets.

Eric Schmidt claims a widespread system capable of doing this would 'de-escalate tensions on social media' and 'remove videos before they spread'.

Each autumn, both species are attracted to Kaktovik in Alaska, to dine on whale carcasses, which are discarded from local hunts but it is increasingly leading to confrontations between the animals.

Researcher from Tomsk State University designed a sniff test of self-recognition to determine a dog's self-awareness. Canines sniffed urine samples and showed no interest in their own scent.

The car never needs to be plugged in - and can instead be charged using special conductive tile. 'The first 100% electrically powered Porsche is on its way,' the firm said.

EXCLUSIVE: The new Babylon Therapy app offers UK patients 50-minute consultations with qualified therapists by phone or video call for £49, removing the need to travel to a clinic.

At around 80 metres per pixel, incredible details can be picked out, such as huge ice blocks, dramatic craters and crumpled ridges - all less than half the size of a city block on Pluto's diverse surface.

French designer, Vivien Muller, invented a surveillance system that communicates through eye expressions. Ulo is has two LCD screens that not only watches activity but sends out alerts.

Even though female life expectancy has increased over the past 20 years, elderly women spend less time with memory problems than they did, a study shows.

Israeli scientists are comparing the DNA obtained from ancient seeds found at archaeological sites to 120 unique grape varieties found growing in Israel.

Movies are getting a lot more personal, and it could mean that you never sit through a bad film again. BBC researchers are developing a program that can tailor a film to suit its viewers' personalities.

Researchers have created the first 'sentiment index' for emoji, which could help confused users decide exactly which one to use.

Researchers from MIT and Harvard are working together to develop kill switches that will force the escaped genomes to self-destruct. Not only will it be destroyed, if it leaves the lab, its DNA will be erased.

Researchers sequenced the DNA of seven cheetahs from Tanzania and Namibia. They found the animals became isolated after leaving North America 100,000 years ago.

From ideas of tying a passenger car to a whale, to a bicycle railroad, the history of mass transit reveals that trial-and-error is not a smooth process.

Binghamton University's Harpur College conducted a study that suggests people perceive text messages ending in a period are less sincere than those that have no punctuation.

The test, created by Juerd Waalboer from the Netherlands, records the number of characters, including errors and space, as well as words you can type in a minute.

Microsoft has selected 2,000 iPhone users to participate in the beta testing of Cortana, a virtual assistant with combined features from Siri and Google Now into one package.

In an extraordinary - and frankly barking - experiment, animal behaviour experts are attempting to teach dogs from rescue homes how to master the controls of a light aircraft.

The radical designs from French firm Zodiac Aerospace include staircases, stacked storage bins for hand luggage and display screens that beam video from exterior cameras.

Researchers at the University of Houston found social drinkers are seen as being more attractive than non drinkers but heavy drinkers were considered to be the least appealing.

Twitter is uncropping photos to create a more 'immersive' experience for its users. The platform announced that larger displays of single and multiple-photo spreads will now be a part of the feed.

An Alabama man's hoverboard exploded beneath his feet and caught fire, while another family is blaming the highly sought-after device for burning down their Louisiana home.

A line of seismometers across in Antarctica have shown Researchers from from Washington University the first look below the mantle, revealing hot rock, which could affect ice formation.

Researchers at Cornell University in New York and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia managed to make IVF puppies 40 years after the first attempts began.

A team of scientists in Pennsylvania has created an aluminium oxide material that is thousands of times thinner than paper, and strong enough to maintain its shape even after being bent.

Archaeologists examining the site of HM Prison Gloucester in south west England discovered the ruins of enormous '12 feet wide' castle walls beneath the prison's old basketball court.

Newly-digitised images reveal previously unseen details of one of the greatest ever photographic records of human survival. Today, four more images can be revealed.

Engineers in the US Army are developing an autonomous buggy that can drive itself into a mission, and complete tasks with little supervision from a commander.

Vincent is a three year old cat that was at a camp site, missing his back two legs. With the help of his adopted family and the Iowa State University, he just received a new pair of legs of titanium ones.

Psychologists at Duke University in North Carolina found the amygdala, which is responsible for processing emotions, is more active in people who blame others when things go wrong.

Japan's space agency has confirmed its Akatsuki probe (illustrated) has entered into orbit around Venus, after failing to do so upon its launch in 2010, when it drifted to a heliocentric orbit.

Google has sent mountaineers up the three tallest peaks in England, Scotland and Wales with its Street View cameras so armchair walkers can enjoy the views from the comfort of their homes.

The wood-and-metal RV-style dwelling measures just 170sq ft but can sleep four people and is specifically designed to take on the wilderness.

A rare genetic condition that makes some people unable to feel pain(sstock image) has been recreated in a lab by researchers from the University College London for the first time.

According to a poll from Hide My Ass! , 1 in 8 American parents said the internet was responsible for telling their children the truth about Santa Claus. Google was the biggest offender in telling the truth.

University of Oregon and University of Cincinnati studied how colors influence or biases the way consumers make ethical judgments, specifically if they view a company is eco-friendly.

A team at Washington University used algorithms to map 49 points on a person's face, then chart how those points change depending on various emotions.

An experimental psychologist at Oxford University has found some music genres can make specific foods taste better. Taylor Swift (pictured) is ideal with Chinese food, Pavarotti with pasta.

Psychologists at Lund University in Sweden questioned 6,000 workers and found unpleasant behaviour can quickly spread as they tended to imitate their colleagues and superiors.

Linguists at the University of Pennsylvania have documented what they're calling the first accent of American Sign Language (ASL). The word 'have' is shown being signed in 'Philadelphia accent.'

At a UN conference in Geneva, the general secretary of the Irish section of the International Catholic peace movement Pax Christi warned killer robots could destroy human bonds.

Scientists at Northwestern University in Illinois added fluorescent tags to the neurons in the brains of fruit flies to produce a long-lasting record of the insect's sensory experiences.

Look out for creepy-crawlies under the Christmas tree this year! Mattel has released a new toy race car for children ages six and up, and it's piloted by crickets. Crickets are not included.

Figures published by the University of East Anglia show that greenhouse gas emissions declined by three per cent last year, raising hopes of meeting targets to halve CO2 emissions by 2050.

The two Jurassic dinosaurs - which would have measured up to 30 feet when alive - were found 1,600 feet apart in Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China.

Bob Drew, head of Gearies Infant School in Redbridge, East London, said four-year-olds are arriving at his primary school with poor upper body strength because of a lack of physical activity.

Research has found that moving in with a partner can provide couples with the same level of happiness as married living. About two-thirds of couples cohabitate before getting married.

President Barack Obama signed legislation at the end of November that allows commercial extraction of minerals and other materials, including water, from asteroids and the moon.

Yale scientists found cannabis's active ingredient delta-9-THC, increases random neural activity in the brain. They suggest this leads to psychosis-like effects, similar to symptoms of schizophrenia.

The world's largest social network is testing a new feature that will enable its 1.5 billion users to use their smartphones to shoot video so other people can see what they are doing in real time.

A National Institute of Anthropology and History team, led by archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan, discovered the 8.4-meter (27-foot) long tunnel at Mexico City's Templo Mayor ruin complex.

Seven dome-shaped huts were found engraved on a 7-inch (18cm) wide slab of rock (pictured) found in the Molí del Salt rock shelter on the outskirts of the village of Vimbodi in Spain's Tarragona region.

If holiday travel seems like a nightmare today, it was surely a horror 100 years ago. An 'isochronic' map shows what it was like to travel in 1914, and the travel time is not measured in hours, but in days.

Illinois-based Motorola claims it spent three years making the phone's 5.4-inch display (pictured) shatterproof, so MailOnline put the claims to the test by throwing it down stairs and running it over.

Eygyptologists believe they may have found the final resting place of the lost Queen Nefertiti, the supposed stepmother of boy-king Tutankhaumun behind a false wall in King Tut's burial chamber.

Scientists produced the blurred outlines of a submerged man after recording the sonar signals with an underwater microphone and converting them into pictures.

Researchers from University of Queensland and University of Ohio have found evidence of a new species of dinosaur found in Australia. CT scanning and 3D imaging were used in discovery.

A rocket-powered space-sweeper that feasts on debris could clear Earth's orbits (illustrated) from junk. Engineers from Tsinghua University, Beijing designed the engine.

The music streaming service announced its end-of-the-year list on Tuesday and said Drake earned 1.8 billion streams in 2015.

The design (illustrated), filed with the USPTO in Virginia, describes a machine that sends a pulse of gas into a barrel that contains a 'micro-particle' capable of puncturing the skin.

Scientists at Edinburgh University identified the sauropod tracks in layers of rock in an undisclosed location on the island. A sediment cast of a footprint at the site is shown.

While technical details are sparse, the French car manufacturer claims it will be the 'world's most powerful, fastest, most luxurious and most exclusive production super sports car.'

A new design is looking to scale down particle accelerators. With laser light and an 'accelerator on a chip' design, the search for parallel universes could take place in a shoebox sized area.

The ¥57,420 (£310) device from Kyocera, is due for release next Friday in Japan. It has no speaker and is entirely sealed to keep water and bubbles (picutred) from reaching the internals

Astronomers from the University of British Columbia have spotted a previously unknown Fast Radio Burst and they discovered what events could have caused it

The University of Minnesota's Carlson School and Management and University of Illinois at Chicago revealed money makes children work harder, but also give less to others.

Experts sent down a deep-sea camera off the coast of Baru, Colombia, to examine the wreckage of the San Jose, which sunk more than 300 years ago, ahead of a planned salvage operation.

The system uses a ceiling mounted projector and sensors to turn walls and even furniture into virtual displays, while sensors could track a user's every movement.

The project, which is being co-led by researchers at Cardiff University, will aim to puncture the boundary between the crust and mantle at the Atlantis Bank (shown).

Experts from the University of Queensland, Australia found that people who are quicker at answering general knowledge questions are charming (charismatic actor George Clooney shown).

Researchers in China have made a pretty sweet find - eight fossilized peach pits, nearly identical to the peaches that grow today. These fossils predate the existence of modern humans.

Researchers from the University of Missouri have shown that those who follow their gut intuition, may be less likely to cheat. 100 participants were studied to determine these results.

Air travel could soon get an uncomfortable makeover. A patent filed by Boeing reveals a design that aims to pack 12 travelers into one row, relying on three aisles rather than two.

The study was commissioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and involved personologist and author Naomi Tickle, based in California.

Blue Shade is rolling out today for the company's Fire HD 10, Fire HD 8 and Fire tablets as part of a free update. The feature, which suppresses blue light, can be turned on or off with one tap.

Scientists from North Carolina State University have discovered a new carbon phase that can be used to create these precious gems in a laboratory and at room temperature.

The mummified remains of Peder Winstrup, the influential Bishop of Lund (pictured) who died in 1679, have been shown to the public before he is due to be reburied at Lund Cathedral on Friday.

The Lyell Glacier, which was once Yosemite National Park's biggest glacier in California, has shrinking from about half a square mile (1.22 square km) to a tenth of a square mile (0.27 square km).

Pascal Cotte says he has discovered another portrait beneath the existing painting on display in The Louvre, in Paris (pictured) by using reflective light technology.

Researchers from Tel-Aviv University scanned the brains of more than 1,400 men and women, focusing on anatomy rather than how the brains work.

Designer David Coelho, based in New York, is raising money on Indiegogo to make his ShiftWear shoe range (pictured) a reality.