Penn State analyzed the 2013 flood in Colorado to see if social media can help agencies respond to disaster areas. Tweets and satellite images showed exact locations of distressed areas.

Research has found that location is now a much bigger influence on children's achievement than in 1970, with London students performing best and Yorkshire and the Humber worst.

The leaky space suit worn by US astronaut Tim Kopra, which led to Tim Peake's first spacewalk being cut short, is the same one which caused a life-threatening situation in 2013.

In December, Jeff Bezos' secretive private space firm successfully flew its New Shepard ship to space, before landing it again north of Van Horn, Texas.

Called the Triple Crown, its maker Chiappa launched new models of the $2,000 series at the show, attended by around 64,000 gun enthusiasts.

UberEATS is making its way to 10 cities across the US. This new move will allow users to order food from dozens of local restaurants and have it delivered with in 30 to 40 minutes for delivery.

Known as Trumpler 14, the cluster is located 8,000 light-years away in the Carina Nebula, a huge star-formation region in our galaxy. It is thought to be relatively young at around 500,000 years old.

Professor Hedrich from the University of Wurzburg fooled the plant (pictured) into thinking it had landed an insect by applying increasing numbers of artificial 'touches' to trap hairs.

Vanderbilt University scientists said practising mindfulness could help recalibrate the imbalance in the brain connections associated with obesity - particularly in children.

Researchers in Umea University in Sweden have successfully grown cartilage tissue in the laboratory from cow knee joints which they hope can one day be used to treat the condition.

Curiosity is scooping from 'Namib Dune' which. Nasa hopes could help it better understand the ripple patterns spotted in ancient sandstones on Mars that may have formed from flowing water.

Microsoft has chosen three finalists for its 'Share Your Idea' contest, which allowed the public to submit ideas of its HoloLens. The public can vote for their favorite idea on the website.

Vladimir Tatarenko has designed a plane with a detachable cabin that could release in an emergency situations. The cabin is released from the aircraft and land safely on ground or water.

Rune Pettersen only needed a sharp knife and a box of matches to complete the mini science experiment in Volda, Norway, last month. The footage has since been viewed 1.2million times.

The gas giant is thought to be almost as big as Neptune and orbiting billions of miles beyond Neptune's path - distant enough to take 10,000 to 20,000 years to circle the sun.

Scientists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Centre, Emory University recorded the prairie vole's empathetic behaviour in the form of grooming a traumatised friend .

Phone users have been taking to social media to share shocking snaps of their 'smartphone pinkies' - bends in their little fingers where they hold their phone.

Astronomers used the powerful Compact Array radio telescope in eastern Australia (pictured) to map variations in a mysterious 'lump' of gas to estimate its shape.

Scientists at University College London (UCL) developed the windows (illustrated) which are ultra-resistant to water, thanks to pencil-like microscopic structures engraved into the glass.

William Ruddiman from the University of Virginia says early farmers caused carbon dioxide levels to rise beginning 7,000 years ago, and methane to rise around 5,000 years ago.

The remains were discovered on a beach in Penarth, South Wales and the animal is thought to be the oldest Jurassic dinosaur in the world, and is the only skeleton from that period found in Wales.

Jeff Gerard captured the bright object floating above the treeline in Spring Hill, Florida, around midnight on October 20 last year. YouTube users have since debated over whether it is a UFO.

Developed by Celluon in Seoul, South Korea, the 'epic laser keyboard' is the size of a matchbox but projects a full-size Qwerty keyboard onto a flat surface.

McGill University has spent years searching for life McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. This area is similar to the permafrost region on Mars and the team hoped if they found life here they'd find it there.

EXCLUSIVE: Biologists at Roehampton University in London trained eight king penguins caught on the Possession Island, on the Crozet Archipelago, Antarctica, to walk on a treadmill for the study.

The condition occurs because sufferers' bodies can't prepare for a night's sleep, meaning they never drop off. This happens when proteins start become misshapen, damaging the brain.

Levitation experts Arx Pax have created an engine to power a prototype Hyperloop, and it zips smoothly through a tube without ever touching the surface below it.

A Twitter user has revealed an image to show that Apple may be testing Li-Fi technology for the iPhone 7, which would mean data transmission runs on visible light waves, instead of radio.

The popular messaging app, headquartered in Mountain View, California, shows a double blue tick once a recipient has read a message, which can make for some awkward scenarios.

A major flaw affecting Linux systems has made millions of devices susceptible to attacks, allowing root access, or near-complete control, to unprivileged apps or users.

Google has announced its plans to roll out the 'Brotli' update for its browser, Chrome, which will improve compression, speeding up webpage loading.

Co-founder of the Seti Institute in California, Jill Tarter, argues that any aliens who have managed to travel across the universe will be sophisticated enough to be friendly and peaceful.

More than 400 large U.S. military drones have crashed since 2001, and ten Reapers, each costing an estimated $14m, were badly damaged or destroyed in 2015, the paper says.

A team at the Salk Institute in California, discovered that, on average, one synapse can hold about 4.7 bits of information. This means that the human brain has a capacity of one petabyte.

Researchers investigate 50 American homes to see what kinds of insects they could find. The team found that the average home, although clean, has 100 species of arthropods and insects living in it.

The U.S. Navy's $2.1 billion fleet of high-speed transport ships are not quite equipped to withstand the blow of waves in the high seas, with weak bows requiring reinforcements.

The four inch long splinter was wedged so deep in her throat that it was not immediately apparent to owner Catherine Pryde, 52, from Gartcosh, Lanarkshire, what the problem was (file photo).

Humans may evolve bizarre features in response to changing environments, according to Dr Matthew Skinner, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Kent.

The San Francisco-based social network showed an image of a broken robot (pictured) this morning during its one-and-a-half-hour outage.

Nasa announced Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser 'shuttle' will join SpaceX and Orbital ATK in launching cargo to the International Space Station.

Users of Facebook's Android app can now privately browse the world's largest social network through the anonymity service Tor.

The three-week trial took place at Holborn Station in December during the morning peak and saw commuters encouraged to stand on both sides of the escalators - not just on the right (stock image).

Scientists at the University of Oxford have found while on average we have 150 'friends' online, we can only turn to four of them when we have a personal problem.

According to British experts, smartphones drain power faster in icy weather because their lithium ion batteries increase internal electrical resistance in cold weather, reducing their capacity.

The Swedish company, which has built its reputation on safety, says a world where nobody dies in car accidents is closer than most people think.

The eerie footage was captured in the sky above the Large Hadron Collider - a complex particle collider based at the European particle physics laboratory CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.

Despite setting their alarms for 6.30am and leaving the house by 7.23am, most Britons don't feel fully awake and able to function until 9.40am on the average weekday.

An experiment on BBCs Trust Me I'm a Doctor found 100 different bacteria on the samples taken from 20 men. It found certain species attacked and killed each other, like antibiotics.

Scientists in Slovenia are developing a technique that allows them to store data in the genetic code of plants as binary information in the hope seeds could provide long term storage for data.

Five dozen stone and ceramic fragments and other artifacts have been unearthed in Honduras in a mysterious site that may be the legendary White City or City of the Monkey God.

The project, funded by the European Commission, was part of a program called NEOShield to look at ways of dealing with a killer asteroid headed for Earth.

The main season for El Niño impacts in the U.S. (January-March) is just beginning in the U.S., but it's winding down in other areas of the world, NOAA forecasters said.

The brain interprets some sounds as 'non-threats,' according to an associate professor from Pennsylvania State University, and it can use them to block out other, more alarming noises.

California-based Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has proposed 'The Daily Message.' Writing on Medium, he described the idea as 'a messaging service that only delivers once per day.'

The temperature readings come from analysis produced by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research Unit. Nasa and NOAA have also confirmed it.

Egyptian and foreign experts say they are now ready to begin studying cosmic particles collected inside Egypt's 4,600-year-old Bent Pyramid in Dashour.

The team recently gave Glamour exclusive access to watch them train at Nasa's facilities in Houston as they prepare themselves for deep space travel.

Astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photo of the first flower to bloom on the International Space Station. The zinnia flowers will help scientists learn how to grow crops for long space missions.

Some groups claims it is plausible this technology will also allow police to gather speed data without the use of a radar gun, and give more information than we realise to third-party advertisers.

The latest self-defense weapon from Taser can immobilize an attacker from 15 feet away, and will fit into a purse or discreet holster. Taser Pulse 'less-lethal weapon' is designed for citizen use.

Six of the individuals were similar to the modern Welsh, researchers said - and one had genetic affinities with people from North Africa and Middle East.

Scientists at Kyoto University in Japan are working on a method of detecting your heartbeat without sensors on the body, which they claim is as accurate as an electrocardiogram (ECG).

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The procedure (the monkey reportedly featured in the study is pictured) is said to have been performed at Harbin Medical University, China.

According to figures from Tokyo-based Trend Micro, on the dark web, Uber details start at $3.78 (£2.67) per account, while stolen credit and debit cards are worth a measly 22 cents each.

An annual list of the worst passwords, produced by US web security firm Splashdata, shows that many of us are still opting for classics such as '123456' and 'password1'.

Human remains excavated from burial sites near Cambridge provided the material for the first whole-genome sequences of ancient British DNA.

The University of Cambridge professor says technological threats include nuclear war, catastrophic global warming and genetically engineered viruses.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have warned that a boom in loud speakers, PA systems and automatic doors may be behind a growing epidemic of ultrasonic sickness.

Due to its armour, the slow-moving A-10 can withstand ground
fire while loitering for long periods over a battlefield.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission wants analysts to write a report on China's current industrial and military robotics capabilities - and where they came from.

Researchers from McGill University in Quebec, Canada say it takes just one tenth of a second for our brains to begin to recognise emotions conveyed by noises - which is faster than words.

The 'Netflix Super Browse,' extension is available in beta versions on Chrome and Firefox, and has thousands of the hidden categories compiled into one menu.

Palaeontologists have uncovered a 'mass death assemblage' at a quarry pit in the Mantua Township in central New Jersey, which dates closely to the mass extinction 65 million years ago.

A mathematician from Nottingham Trent University came up with the formula (pictured), which examines variables such as height, relative size of each ball of snow and accessories.

It's the arithmetical trick that's been causing delight and surprise but you'd better try it out on friends soon - because the later it gets into the year, the less likely it is to work.

Scientists led by the University of Berne, Switzerland, found 'mildly harmful' mutations became more common among small groups of migrants travelling from Africa 50,000 years ago.

Dr Paul Mason, an astrophysicist at University of Texas at El Paso, said that a number of key events unfolded over billions of years which were key for habitable planets.

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, a specialist in satellite imagery analysis at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy claims the patterns are ant nests, each 47 inches (120cm) in diameter.

Astronomers at the Rochester Institute of Technology say a dwarf galaxy packed with mysterious dark matter skimmed past our own galaxy hundreds of millions of years ago.

Tomá Opatrný of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, used mathematical models to discover that planets orbiting a black hole could sustain life, just like a warm sun does to Earth.

Nasa has revealed that new data is painting a different picture of the Van Allen Belts than scientists previously formulated, and the new shapes are much more complex.

Wearable smart tight called Nadi were developed by Sydney innovators, Wearable Experiments, and work like a built in yoga instructor, using gentle pulses for guidance.

University of Cambridge researchers said that for humans to scale a wall like Spiderman (illustrated), or a gecko, they would need need impractically large sticky feet.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, found high doses of the drug accelerate a natural clean-up process, known as autophagy, where cells are digested by acids created by enzymes.

WhatsApp announced it is axing the $1 subscription fee and allowing users to communicate for free. The company will start testing commercial services, which will allow users to chat with businesses.

The video, produced by the University of Oxford, shows a 'windowing' procedure where a section of shell is cut from an egg and ink is injected into the embryo's yolk sac artery (result pictured).

Russian artist Ilja Klemencov has hidden a giant panda amongst black and white zig-zag lines in what appears to be the latest mind-altering puzzle featuring the fluffy bear.

Apple has confirmed it is investigating a bug which displays the incorrect battery percentage on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus when the phone's time is changed.

It had been claimed a second version of the Watch would be unveiled - but TechCrunch says this will not happen until September.

The baby dinosaur, a juvenile Chasmosaurus, uncovered six years ago in Alberta badlands is now providing scientists with the answers to evolutionary mysteries.

Graham Kendall from the University of Nottingham has explained the best strategy for amateurs, and discusses whether the dart board design needs a makeover.

Researchers at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) say dangerous levels of synthetic chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs, are still leaking into the oceans.

The latest rumours claim the firm has worked with chip companies to make the change, and will include noise cancelling technology into the handset, Fast Company says.

Smartphone manufacturers are taking steps to make their products less damaging to sleep after a damning study showed the devices can stop people dropping off.

The radial troughs have been referred to as spiders, simply because of their shape, and are caused by the thawing of carbon dioxide ice.

The handwritten book was discovered in the archives of Downside Abbey, in Somerset. Among the food-spattered pages are recipes for Fricassee of Pigs Ears and even one of the first chicken curries.

Miniatur Wunderland is located in the Speicherstadt area of Hamburg. Google mounted its spherical cameras onto toy cars to trains. A German farmer's market is pictured.

Scientists in at the University of Montana analysed the complex air currents created by the tiny birds' wings and found they create tiny tornadoes which gives them their high maneuverability.

Samsung, Sony and LG are among the main contenders showcasing high dynamic range (HDR) televisions, which has become a major trend at this year's CES exhibition in Las Vegas.

Anthropologists have discovered stone tools that suggest an unknown species of human braved the ocean crossing to Sulawesi, Indonesia, up to 150,000 years before Homo sapiens.

The probe, which has been orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since August 2014, discovered grains of water ice in two different places on the surface.