The $70,000 Sherp ATV is a Russian all-terrain vehicle equip with four massive self-inflating tires and paddle-like treads to propel it over water.
A total of 883 galaxies were found in a region of sky normally hidden from view by our own Milky Way using the Parkes telescope in Australia. A third of these were unknown to science. This concentration of galaxies, and their movement, is now being used to study a phenomenon called the Great Attractor that pulls the Milky Way and hundreds of thousands of other galaxies towards it with enormous gravitational force. This image is a computer generated images of the hidden galaxies.
NEW Google has just been awarded a patent for a self-driving delivery truck. The patent describes 'lockers' in the cargo area that hold packages that are retrieved by a PIN given to customers.
NEW Paul Williams, from the University of Reading predicts that while westbound transatlantic flights will take longer, planes travelling in the opposite direction will enjoy faster times.
A recent study from Washington University reveals that many people falsely identify Alexander Hamilton and other prominent figures as past presidents.
Scientists at the University of Sussex showed 28 horses pictures of happy and angry faces of men they had never seen before to test the animals' ability to recognise emotions.
The WazeRider app will use Waze's navigation system to learn the routes drivers most frequently take to work and match them up with people looking for a ride in the same direction.
The feat was achieved by colliding lead atoms at an extremely high energy in the 16.7 mile (27km) long Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
A researcher working with Nasa's LROC moon-mapping mission has debunked claims of a 3.5-mile (5.6km) spire on the moon's surface. Images have been circulating on the internet, which appear to show the 'spire', which was explained by a conspiracy website as a 'docking station' for a 'large vessel'.
YouTube user Junya Sakamoto has designed a robot with unparalleled skill in playing 'Puzzles & Dragons,' and it slings out back-to-back combinations with inhuman speed.
In the 'worst case scenario', soot would remain in the atmosphere for 10 years, while dust take six years to settle back on Earth, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Analysis of Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas messages during her 64 year reign by scientists at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich have shown her vowels have shifted.
Twitter has released First View, which allows advertisers to own the top slot of user's timelines for 24-hours. The video ad will be first thing seen on the top of timelines every time the users logs in.
The SLS program has only been allotted $1.3 billion, much lower than the $2 billion it was given for 2016. Orion would also get $150 million less. Overall, the budget is $300 million less than last year.
Time Warner is 'exploring' holding back DC Comics shows such as 'The Flash' and 'Supergirl' from online services - and could invest in Hulu and stop it showing programmes 24 hours later.
The Airlander 10 (pictured inset) was originally developed as part of a US Army project but was scrapped by military bosses. It is now being converted to provide business and leisure flights in a hangar in Cardington, Bedfordshire. The vessel was filled with 1.3million cubic feet of helium - enough to fill 15 Olympic-sized swimming pools -in a test run last October and now the engines and fins are being fitted ahead of next month's flight. An artist's impression of the craft is pictured main.
Blue Origin, the company created by Mr Bezos, successfully launched the New Shepard rocket for the first time in November, and repeated the take-off successfully just two months later. Now, footage of that flight has been revealed.
A team of researchers at the University of Southern California is working to revolutionize modern communication. Using an inexpensive 'toolkit,' the team has developed a way to create personal avatar.
The cremated remains and 4,000-year-old tools (pictured) belonging to an ancient archer were found in a burial mound on Netheravon Down in Wiltshire after a badger dug up an urn.
UK Watchdog Which? claims the cheaper the tablet, the bigger the storage problem. A study carried out by the body found that the devices are not offering users the memory they expected.
Researchers at the Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology in Montpellier, found that T.gondii led chimpanzees to develop a fatal attraction to the smell of predators' urine.
An expert at Rutgers School of Business- Camden, in New Jersey, claims unhappy employees are 'embedded' in their job and bosses can exploit the situation to retain them.
Researchers from the University of Bremen, Germany created the system, which crawls Google Street View images alongside routes and classifies them using deep learning.
People who believe they have had near-death experiences have explained what it feels like on the question site Quora, describing feelings of bliss, peace and excitement.
Dr Richard Cytowic from George Washington University in Washington D.C. says Ted Cruz's unconventional smile could be why some voters find it hard to warm to the presidential hopeful.
Sled Legs is seeking $25,000 on Indiegogo to get the prototype to production. Sled Legs is a wearable sled that straps to each leg. The device allows users to slide down snow covered hills in the kneeling position, which provides more control than a saucer or toboggan. Users also have the freedom to run up hills, without having to lug around heavy gear. Consumers can get a pair of Sled Legs for a pledge of $84 and delivery is estimated for April of this year.
Six people were killed by sharks, including a snorkeler in Hawaii, while two deaths were recorded off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, according to figures from International Shark Attack File.
Customers in the UK can choose either the Sky Q Silver Bundle or the Sky Q Bundle. The typical monthly cost for existing Sky+ customers will be an extra £12 compared with their current package.
The technique works through closed eyes and doesn't wake a sleeping subject, the team from Stanford University explained. This enables the body clock to adjust by as much as two hours.
Researchers at University College London compared recipes for pancakes from around the world, to determine how ratios effect the texture and pattern. This could give insight to treating glaucoma.
Seattle-based law firm PCVA has called on users with crippled handsets as a result of the 'Error 53' code to get in touch, with a view to bringing a class action.
Japanese blog Macotakara has rumoured that Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 5se -expected to be a 4-inch model - will be available in Silver, Space Grey and Hot Pink.
Dubbed Late Antique Little Ice Age, this previously unknown period of climate change in around 535 AD has been revealed in the patterns of tree rings across Asia and the Alps.
Scientists from Penn State University have compiled a study that suggests that fires have spread in the Australian bush due to birds dropping smouldering sticks and embers on wildlife below.
It is believed an experiment called the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (Ligo) has picked up signals from these waves just a few months after starting - and the results will be unveiled on Thursday at 10.30 EST (15.30GMT). If confirmed, the discovery promises to revolutionise physics and astronomy by providing an entirely new way of observing the universe, as well as prove Albert Einstein (pictured inset) was correct.
Scientists at the University of Melbourne have have tested the world's first minimally-invasive 'brain-machine interface' (pictured) to prove it can control an exoskeleton.
A team of astronomers, led by researchers at the University of Vienna, have shed light on the growing pains of young stars. They believe they grow through a series of violent growth spurts.
People exposed to dirty air as long ago as 1971 have been more likely to die in the following decades than people living where the air was cleaner, Dr John Gulliver - London Imperial College - has found.
Instagram, which now has more than 300 million users, announced it is rolling out Account Switching on both iOS and Android devices later this week.
Humans have been modifying crops since the birth of farming and our food has dramatically changed. Images show what fruits and vegetables once looked like and what we turned them into.
In a new book, Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in your Brain, Douglas Fields reveals the triggers that cause 'normal' people to lose their heads with rage, and become extremely violent.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley came up with the design for the bot, with its compressible body, based on the ability of cockroaches to squeeze through tiny gaps.
So far, 12 of 'Relay' robots by Savioke have been employed in the US including the Residence Inn by Marriott Los Angeles LAX/Century Boulevard, where Relay makes routine deliveries.
The so called 'sixth generation fighter' is rumoured to fly at supersonic speeds and have laser weapons, although Northrop Grumman, who are developing it, say the specifications are still secret.
Sweden's Goran Marby was Monday named head of the body that manages Internet addresses, pledging to uphold checks and balances as it steps out from under US government oversight.
British researchers have devised the first reliable IQ test for dogs. It has been carried out on border collies, like the one shown, and shows that just like humans, dogs vary in how clever they are.
Researchers from the National University of La Plata, Argentina analysed the brains of 49 New World primates (brown spider monkey shown) and found they evolved in two main stages.
China has used its spring festival gala to show off its technological power through the medium of dancing robots. 540 robots took to the stage in Guangzhou, southern China as part of the show.
The Loughborough-based firm has not revealed the name of the manufacturer, simply describing it as an 'emerging operator,' but the move signals that the technology is about to become mainstream.
Monash Institute found the prefrontal cortex and anterior insula were activated when people disagreed. These areas are linked to cognitive dissonance, a heightened state of mental stress.
Millennials protest for more clean label products, but do they buy them? Kansas State University used chocolate to investigate and found Millennials do not want to pay high prices.
The study, led by more than two dozen leading Earth scientists, warns that even under mild warming, around 20 per cent of the world's population will be forced to migrate away from coasts.
Have you ever wanted to explore Mars? You may not be able to do it in person, but thanks to Nasa's new 360-degree footage captured by the Curiosity Mars rover, anyone can take a look around the sand dunes of the red planet. For the best view of Mars, open the video on the YouTube app in your smartphone, and watch the landscape move as you swivel the phone in different directions. Or, click-and-drag the image in your web browser.
Researchers at St Andrews University have developed a technique that can close wounds together with just 15 minutes of exposure to green laser light using an optical fibre (pictured).
A new patent awarded to the Cupertino-based tech giant outlines plans pressure sensors which could be built into the iPhone's home button, and could incorporate Apple's fingerprint security.
India's government has essentially banned a Facebook program offering free access to a limited version of the social network and other Internet services.
A Google engineer found out the hard way that knockoff USB Type-C cables will wreak havoc on devices. As soon as the cable is plugged in it will draw too much power and burn out the device.
Figures from the new market insight report show the social media app saturated the smartphone market, reaching almost 77 per cent of smartphone users in US for the quarter ending 31 December.
Scientists at the University of Manchester discovered the syndrome after studying six problem families from around the world. It is caused by an error in chromosome 6. Stock image pictured.
Elon Musk's firm will use a Falcon 9 rocket to place a SES-9 satellite into orbit 35,000km above Earth. They may then attempt to land the rocket on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, after 3 previous attempts failed.
The Trojan, called T9000, was spotted by security company Palo Alto Networks, who call it a 'backdoor malware'. It automatically captures data about the infected system and steals files.
The bizarre predator (pictured main and inset) was discovered in an old cellar in Nide, which lies in the central Anatolia region of Turkey and remains to be identified by natural history experts in the country. Some have theorised the animal may be prehistoric, while others believe it could be some kind of cat, based on the shape of its head and its incisors. It could alternatively be a hoax.
Officials met with the technology giant recently to encourage it to extend its pilot scheme to the capital. It would be the first time the cars have been tested extensively outside of the US.
If a mysterious error code called 'Error 53' pops up on your iPhone, brace yourself. This message could mean imminent death for iPhones that have been repaired by third party services.
Netflix surveyed users to understand how its service impacts dating habits. Study found more than half of the participants see Netflix as an option for a casual date and others feel it's great bonding time.
Psychologists at the University of Iowa asked white college students to categorise pictures of guns or toys after seeing a picture of a white or black five-year-old child beforehand.
Elon Musk's comments were made during a question-and-answer session at the Hyperloop Pod competition awards ceremony at Texas A&M.;
Would you trust your finances in the hands of a robo-advisor? Wealthy investors have been flocking to automated services in recent years, and even some major lenders are in on it.
Penny Stocks Lab has created an interactive graph that highlights how much profit and revenue internet giants make per second. Four firms generate $2,000 a second and 50% belongs to Apple
The chief envisioning officer of Microsoft UK says while language translators are currently at the level of 'schoolboy French', in the next five years there will be no such thing as a language barrier.
British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted the 33-second clip on Tuesday. He said it was 'amazing how much lightning can strike our planet in a short time' and explained the footage was taken as the International Space Station orbited over North Africa and Turkey. Lightning strikes are shown by the bright flashes in the centre of these images.
There's no evidence shark nets of the kind found off Australia's east coast stop humans being mauled, a new analysis has found.
A team of scientists from around the US is working to remove the racial concept from genetics, and they're calling on a panel of experts to find a better way to approach diversity in research.
Twitter is using spam-fighting technology to seek out and automatically flag accounts that might be promoting terrorist activity.
Jan Null, a Californian meteorologist, has found that the past three months score 'a very strong 2.31 on the oceanic Niño index'. This compares to 2.26 for the previous strongest El Niño in 1997.
A volcano in southern Japan has dramatically erupted today just 50km from the Sendai nuclear station, sparking fears of a potential disaster.
Scientists in Tokyo have discovered that the stock of repair cells which the body has lined up to become replace damaged cells in hair-producing follicles may turn into skin instead.
Emojini uses learning algorithms and knowledge of imagery to guess the emoji that best describes your images. Simply upload a picture to the site and it delivers three emojis that capture the image.
In a Medium post, published just 24 hours after Uber's branding was unveiled, Andrew Crow explained that he is 'using our recent successes as a chance to take time off to rest, reflect, and recharge.'
A study by a team in Japan has revealed that between the ages of three to four months, babies can pick up details in objects that adults are unable to see. But at around five months of age, we are all susceptible to something known as 'perceptual constancy.' This means we are more easily tricked by optical illusions. To test this, take a look at the grey blocks on the bottom left. You may think they are different shades of grey, but both blocks are in fact the same colour. On the top right, the coloured tiles illusion tricks you into thinking the square on top of the cube is brown whereas the square on the side in shadow is orange. In reality both squares are the same colour.
Lockheed Martin has installed Orion into something known as the 'birdcage' at Nasa's facility in Florida. This will test its integrity ahead of a flight to the moon.
A robot named after Tiger Woods sent thousands of fans into a frenzy after emulating one of the golfer's greatest moments by making a hole-in-one at the rowdiest hole in golf.
David Babbington, a veterinarian with Orpington-based The Pet Professionals, teaches how to give canine CPR in a video posted on YouTube.
Britain has had a dreary winter, experiencing its wettest December on record. As a result, many dog owners may have been more reluctant to venture out in the rain.
Studies from the US and the Netherlands suggest bursts of gamma rays at the centre of the universe are evidence of astrophysical phenomena, including fast-rotating stars called millisecond pulsars.
US astronaut Randolf Breznik recently joined cosmonaut Sergei Ryazanskii and Norishige Kanai of Japan to brave two winter nights outside Moscow.
The first butterflies acted just like the ones we know today; they visited flowering plants that produced nectar, and had eye-spots on their wings.
Except, they weren't exactly butterflies.
Scientists from the universities of Texas at Austin and York have created the first map that shows how the Greenland Ice Sheet has moved over time.
Hidden roads are giving clues to a neglected chapter in the history of Roman Britain almost 2,000 years ago as these roads helped Rome's legions conquer and control northern England. Archaeologists have used Environment Agency Lidar data to find seven of these important routes in two years. Maps were created by aircraft equipped with laser scanners, which measure the distance between the aircraft and the ground. The left-hand image shows Vindolanda Roman fort in the centre, identified using Lidar data, part of a Roman road from Ribchester to Catterallan (bottom right) and a stock image of an easily visible Roman road (top right).
The iPhone 7 body will appear very similar to the design used for the iPhone 6, apart from a slimmer camera with no 'bulge' and no antenna bands on the rear.
Facebook has another secret in its midst. Built into the messaging platform is 'FBChess,' the hidden game that can be accessed with a simple command: '@fbchess play'.
The four-legged, 20-ton spacecraft is designed to land two cosmonauts on the moon with the help of Angara-5V rockets. The nation is hoping to launch a lunar probe in 2024 to scout out colony locations.
Microsoft has released a two minute video clip showing how its HoloLens can enhance a sports fan's experience. The clips shows players bursting our of walls, playing on the coffee table and more.
Researchers from Portugal have demonstrated how swarm robotics can be useful in a naval setting, showing how a small fleet of self-learning robot boats can 'think' for themselves, to work together.
Researchers at Brown University in Rhode Island believe a mineral called lawsonite (pictured) is to blame for earthquakes that occur at extreme depths below the Earth's surface.
Researchers from Liverpool discovered the trait Vikings developed to survive massive worm infestations could lead to lung disease in smokers who are Norsemen descendants.
A team of conservationists on St Helena, an island in the south Atlantic, has discovered ten new species of insect, including the Basilewsky's cranefly (pictured) thought to have gone extinct in the 1960s.
Conspiracy theorist claim an ancient Greek sculpture depicts a woman using a 20th century laptop or tablet. The statue dates back to around 100 BC and paranormal investigators are sure it is modern-day technology, complete with USB ports on the side. But historians say ancient Greek funerary relief is just a deceased woman 'touching the lid of a shallow chest'.
Voice of Young Science members based in London created the quiz to test people's knowledge of meteorological terminology.
Astronomers at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux measured grains around the star 2MASS J16281370-2431391, 400 light-years from Earth (shown).
Paul Bertner, 31, from Canada, attempted to catch the bugs in their natural habitat as part of a hide and seek game and to show the level of biodiversity in nature.
The Manx government is currently trying to tempt car and technology companies to the Isle of Man to road-test their driverless vehicles, like those unveiled in Greenwich (pictured).
Stewart Alsop, a venture capital investor in America, had originally grumbled about the matter in September and confirmed on Monday that Musk had banned him from owning the car.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, tested a drug on mice to boost their lifespan by clearing out old cells, and believe a pill that does the same for humans is within reach.
The system was today showcased at the White House's 'Earthquake Resilience Summit' in Washington which looked at how to tackle a tsunami strike following an magnitude-9 earthquake.
Researchers from the Yale Memory Clinic believe that Henry VIII's memory problems, explosive anger, and host of other issues were down to a head injury he picked up while jousting.
A new interactive tool lets users test knowledge of dialects of spoken English. Made in partnership with Washington-based travel website Expedia, the Accent Map of the British Isles provides a small sample of the diverse range of dialects spoken across the UK and Ireland, including Birmingham, London Glasgow and Dublin (pictured clockwise from top left)
The concept, from the Luton-based airline, would involve storing a hydrogen fuel cell in the aircraft's hold to convert the gas into electricity, and the plane could be trialled as soon as this year.
Researchers from Stanford University in California and Meiji University in Japan used computer models to show a small modern human population was capable of displacing a larger Neanderthal one.
Researchers at the University of Houston in Texas studied the behaviour of ravens (stock image) hiding food to find the birds were capable of understanding they could be being watched.
Kevin Schawinski, an assistant professor of Astrophysics, at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich says the may be on the edge of dying or has already died.
Astronomers in Baltimore, Maryland, found the Smith Cloud was catapulted out of a galaxy 70 million years ago and is now plummeting back towards the Milky Way.
Scientists at King's College London scanned the brains of 61 men with autism spectrum disorder and compared them to the white matter of men without the condition.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has revealed the hi-tech weapons he hopes will keep America ahead of the world in warfare in a preview of the Pentagon's upcoming 2017 budget request.
The space agency warned that the controversial Caltech paper claiming a ninth planet exists beyond Pluto was 'just a prediction'.
At Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, a new arrival is gearing up to break records on the legendary speedway. The VBB-3 is the collaborative project of Venturi Automobiles and student engineers at Ohio State University, and it boasts nearly 3,000 horsepower. This vehicle is the most powerful electric car in the world, and can hit speeds as high as 372 miles-per-hour. The team is hoping to take it for a record-breaking run this summer.
Experts from University of Maryland used a carbonised maple leaf pumped full of sodium (illustrated) to demonstrate it could be used as a battery's negative terminal, or anode.
The network has sent letters to UK customers affected informing them of the automatic changes. In response, users vented their fury by hijacking and ridiculing the firm's #makeitright slogan.
Scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge used sophisticated digital imaging to test just how effective the various camouflage strategies used by animals really are.
The music producer is definitely getting plenty of attention for his apparent lack of scientific knowledge and tells fans: 'I didn't want to believe it either.'
For the first time scientists have linked the devastating disease to a physical process, the 'pruning' of unwanted connections between brain neurons, the journal Nature reports.
The WEpod (pictured), one of a fleet to be rolled out in coming years, will ride back and forth in the central Dutch town of Wageningen.
Internet hackers could spy on British children through baby monitors, experts have warned. Cybercriminals are able to access them through household networks.
A man in Wisconsin has uploaded a video showing him generating sparks from his fingertips. The footage was filmed at Lake Monona and shows the man placing his hands into the electrically charged air.
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany, suggests that Europe underwent a huge population turnover almost 15,000 years ago, at the same time as a major climatic change. The researchers are calling their findings an 'unknown chapter of human history', with genetic evidence pointing to a huge dispersal of people to Asia and beyond around 50,000 years ago. DNA was extracted from ancient remains from across Europe, including the Czech Republic (Pictured inset is a skull found at the Dolnte Vestonice in the Czech Republic) and FRance (Pictured main is les Closeaux at Rueil-Malmaison, Paris Basin)
An algorithm called AlphaGo has beaten one of the 3,000-year-old game's best players called Fan Hui in a recent tournament set up in London by Google.
The tests, at Nasa Langley Research Centre in Virginia. could lead to planes that can travel 3,425mph (5,500km/h) - 4.5 times the speed of sound.
After spending 48 hours immersed in virtual reality, Thorsten Weidemann was like a 'controlled drug experience.'
Uber has announced it is carrying out a trial to use sensor data from smartphones of passengers and drivers in order to improve its service.
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have developed smart sensors which can monitor your health by analysing your sweat, and sending the results directly to your smartphone.
Watching porn may once have been taboo, but now, it's not nearly as socially condemnable as not recycling, according to a Barna Group study of teens and adults in the US, including pastors.
Researchers from the University of Aarhus in Denmark analysed 13,000 students involved in 12 studies to discover a correlation between the 'Big Five' personality traits and the subjects studied.
Steve Zadesky, who previously worked as an engineer at Ford, is reportedly leaving Apple after 16 years.
Researchers tested a computer model (pictured right) of a skull (pictured left) from Australopithecus sediba, based on a fossil found in 2008 from Malapa, a cave near Johannesburg, South Africa. The tests were similar to those used by engineers to test whether or not planes, cars, machine parts or other mechanical devices are strong enough to avoid breaking during use. Australopithecus sediba (two fossils are shown left and right in the inset) lived in southern Africa two million years. It is thought to have been a transitional species between older Australopithecus, like Lucy in the middle (inset), and later Homo species.
Researchers from the University of Texas said the findings may be due to the 'endowment effect', which suggests that the longer we possess a product, the more attached to it we become.
A team led by Russian researchers has created a neural network using the 'neurochip' technology, and say it could lead to radical new types of computer.
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh found significant negative between a person's intelligence and Alzheimer's disease, coronary artery disease and strokes. Stock image.
Experts from the University of Idaho, Moscow and Cornell University in Ithaca New York have 'weighed' Saturn's brightest ring for the first time to show opacity doesn't necessarily equal density.
Google is developing a range of virtual reality headsets to take on Oculus, HTC and others, it has been claimed. Job postings point to 'large scale' virtual reality hardware in the pipeline.
A team at Louisiana State University said to match up with the star's light history, each of the comets in the swarm would have to be around 125 miles (200km) wide - and that is implausible.
The next generation ATMs are just around the corner as JPMorgan Chase prepares to unleash thousands of eATMs, which only need an app to make withdrawals.
Researchers at the University of Bern, Switzerland, set up experiments to explore how fertile and non-fertile women interact.
The whale-sized space rock, dubbed 2013 TX68, flew past Earth at a distance of about 1.3 million miles in 2013. During the upcoming March 5 flyby, asteroid 2013 TX68 could fly past Earth as far out as 9 million miles (14 million km) or as close as 11,000 miles (17,000 km). Scientists at Nasa's Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS) in California, say 'there is no possibility that this object could impact Earth during the flyby next month.' But they have identified an extremely remote chance that this small asteroid could impact on September 28, 2017, with odds of no more than 1-in-250-million.
University of Waterloo claims this is the first portable touchless device that monitors the entire blow flow system in their patients. The device uses light and a digital signal process to track blood.
Archaeologists at the University of Cambridge found the remains of 27 men, women and children who had been brutally killed 10,000 years ago on the edge of an ancient lagoon in Kenya.
The University of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine studied young adults to find if the use of social media during the day disrupts sleep at night. Results showed 30% had problems sleeping.
MailOnline offers a hint at what to expect in 2016 and beyond. The round-up includes Jupiter missions, Mars exploration, and the distant signal of Voyager in interstellar space.
A study, led by researchers from the University of New York, has found that people who fantasise about their ideal future may develop more symptoms of depression in future.
Scientists at the Australian National University argue life may have been common across the universe but rarely managed to evolve quick enough to stabilise its planet's climate.
The coins (pictured) date from second and third centuries AD, a time when the Romans regularly marched through Yeovil, on the Fosse Way - the main road between Exeter and Lincoln.
Each of the hexagonal-shaped mirror segments installed in Maryland measure just over 4.2 feet (1.3 meters) across - about the size of a coffee table - and weigh approximately 88 pounds (40kg).
The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, the doughnut-shaped reactor (pictured at the Max Planck centre left) was first fired up in December by researchers in Greifswald, Germany. At that time, the experts used helium, which is easier to heat. Today's test used hydrogen to create and trap plasma (pictured top right), in effect mimicking the conditions inside the sun (bottom right).
Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy, from Oxford, were asked to do the stunt by many of their ever-growing fanbase. At the beginning of the video the duo discuss whether or not to go ahead with it.
The chip has been developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology with Darpa, the Pentagon's science research department. An unmanned Predator is pictured.
Researchers are developing ways of generating emotions through the sense of touch, smell and taste that could lead to what the designers are calling 9D TV.
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have made a surprising discovery about the history of the vast Nullarbor Plain in south Australia and found it was once covered in gum trees and flowers.
A team of researchers including those from Queen Mary University of London revealed single celled-pond slime (pictured) acts like a microscopic eyeball to detect light.
A team of researchers from China and the United States has developed a way to make camouflage adaptable. With 'active camouflage,' colours switch in real time to match a changing background.
A team from the University of Liege has found that our brains are sharper in summer, and that winter may dull our senses, making us less mentally sharp and our minds more likely to wander.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT - The video shows Dr Sandra Lee, known as Dr Pimple Popper, extracting huge blackhead from an old man's back - as well as compacted hair, pus and flaked off skin.
Drone footage released this week of the Cupertino Campus 2 in California, shows the shell of the huge building, and a curved glass exterior which will line the inside of the 'spaceship'.
It's the ghost story of the technological age - a phone vibrates in your pocket, but it turns out there was never a message. This is 'ringxiety,' according to Michigan researchers.
Called Beyond the Fence, the musical was conceived by machines and is based on a statistical study of what makes a Broadway hit. It opens in London's West End on 22 February.
That could mean in areas such as Los Angeles an earthquake from one thrust fault could spread to another fault, creating twice as much devastation, according to the University of California Riverside.
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine examined whether the likelihood of a false confession is increased by sleep deprivation using a simple computer experiment.
The new timeline will look like an expanded version of the 'while you were away feature'. The tool shows users a selection of tweets that it considers to be important, and that the user may have missed.
An international team of researchers, including experts at the University of Cambridge, pinpointed 21 types of howl or dialects to find they corresponded to specific subspecies of wolf.
Outnumbered actor Tyger Drew-Honey, 20, whose parents were once porn stars, met Matt McMullen, a sex doll manufacturer whose latest creations use the modern technology.
This is Money watched 'ethical hacker' Mustafa Al-Bassam demonstrate just how much at risk internet users are - especially those reusing weak passwords for a number of websites.
The Joule Caffeine Bracelet holds a caffeine patch right to your skin and releases doses of caffeine equivalent to a medium cup over four hours.
The 40-year-old man was struck and killed by the splinters of the space rock which fell to ground near an engineering college in Vellore, in Tamil Nadu state (graphic image of an asteroid)
This is according to Harvard astronomer, Dimitar Sasselov, who claims 'the human species are not late comers to the party. We may be among the early ones.'
LinkedIn shares plunged as much as 43 percent on Friday, wiping out nearly $11 billion of market value, after the social network for professionals shocked Wall Street with a poor revenue forecast.
An average pair of Facebook users now have only 3.57 degrees of separation between them, the social network says.
Apple Stores in the UK are now accepting less than perfect iPhones in exchange for store credit, which could be put towards a replacement handset.
The Metropolitan Police is so worried about the potential for terrorist drone attacks it is investigation using eagles to take them out, the force confirmed last night.
AdBlitz opened on YouTube, which allows viewers to see ads before they air Sunday. Fans have watched about 200 years worth of Big Game ads and half of them were viewed on mobile devices.
Users are reporting seeing pictures of exes and selfies they wish they had never posted. The feature is even pulling old photos of loved ones that have since passed away.
The Mountain View-based tech giant is reportedly working on an update to its current entry level VR, Cardboard (pictured), and is expected to release a headset later this year.
OpenSignal released a report comparing the world in LTE coverage and speed. The US has a time coverage metric of 81%, ranking it 7th in the world. But only speeds of 6 Mbps, placing it 55th in the world.
Spider researchers in California have uncovered a new species of tarantula in the desert, naming it after country star Johnny Cash. The spider (pictured) was found near Folsom Prison.
The winner will take home $1m when AlphaGo squares off against the world's top-ranked player, South Korea's Lee Sedol, in a five game match starting in March 9th.
Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have reported that the radio frequency (RF) and electromagnetic signals from mobile phone towers can cause nerve pain.
Hundreds of images released by the Beijing-based China National Space Administration show spectacular images captured by the Chang'e 3 lander.
A web creative in New York has designed an artificial intelligence program designed to deal with emails you don't want to, by offering well-crafted auto-generated insults.
The unlucky mouse was discovered at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading after being caught in the unbaited Victorian trap on display behind impenetrable glass.
Chris Sherwood said that due to 'digital infidelity, online porn and using the internet to hook up with former partners', the role of digital technology in relationships 'is really very disruptive'.
Neurobiologists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Stony Brook University, New York, explored the impact of anger on the brain.
A dedicated GIF button (pictured) has appeared on the accounts of a small number of Twitter users and clicking the button shows rows of ready-made clips for a wide range of occasions.
Scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute examined brain scans from two groups of children, those at risk of depression due to family history and those at low risk.
Designed by French firm VPLP, the 282ft hybrid trimaran called Komorebi would burn 30 per cent less fuel on longer crossings thanks to its use of wind energy via two fully-automated 'wings'.
PewDiePie, who has 42 million followers of his comic commentary on gameplay, will star in a
reality-adventure series that will see the Swedish gamer combat horrors in real-life games.
Scientists from the University of South Australia's Future Industries Institute have successfully tested a polymer film coating that conducts electricity on a lens.
A Texas jury said that Apple should pay $625.6 million for violating patents held by a US company devoted to patent litigation.
The app, which the Japanese firm describes as a 'social experience', will initially be available in Japan from the middle of March before launching in 16 other regions in the weeks after.
The videos and messages relate to the 70th anniversary of Russia's Victory Day last year. The flash drive was attached to a small bundle stuffed with towels to provide some bulk.
Luc Bussiere from the University of Sterling explains the odds of other species inheriting the Earth and asks whether humans are the best the planet is going to get.
Scientists at Nasa believe the water ice hills seen 'floating' in a sea of frozen nitrogen move over time like icebergs in Earth's Arctic Ocean. The location of the hills is marked on this image of Pluto.
Satellite data from Nasa shows just how much precipitation fell across the country between January 25 and February 3, with the most extreme levels seen over Alabama and Mississippi.
When the world's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), launches in 2018, it will carry with it 13 small satellites. Today, Nasa revealed new details of seven of these 'cubesats'.
The footage of the UFO was captured on the outskirts of the central Russian city of Kemerovo by Mikhail Litvinov. Many have debated what the object could be as it's too slow to be a meteorite.
Analysis by the University of Exeter of one of the most widespread honeybee viruses, deformed wing virus shows it is predominantly spread due to the trade of bee colonies.
The seal (pictured) was found in the Lower Galilee on the Horns of Hattin in Israel, which got its name from the peaks on extinct volcano.
The fossils were found near Lake Victoria in Kenya. Researchers examined skulls of the Rusingoryx (illustrated) and were 'shocked' as they bore so little similarity to normal mammal skulls.
'Resting b*tch face' knows no gender. To explain why certain passive gazes seem harsh, a team of behavioural researchers partnered with Noldus Information Technology in the Netherlands.
Shreya Darji, 12, from Deesa, in Gujarat, western India, has around ten live ants crawl out of her ears daily and so far, doctors have removed more than 1,000 ants from her ears.
Published in 1888, the book describes a number of highly-guarded practices, such as how to tie suspects with paper string, and resuscitate them using simple movements.
Three of New Jersey's five medical marijuana dispensaries have had their business pages shutdown by Facebook.
Dr Davide Lazzeri, a plastic surgery specialist at the Villa Salaria Clinic in Rome, said it was clear Michelangelo was suffering from an illness which affected his joints in later life.
In his new book, writer Andy Struthers says that author Bram Stoker took his inspiration for the famous virgin killer from a priest based in the Westcountry rather than Vlad the Impaler.
Apple has has been granted a patent for proximity multi-touch sensors which could enable the the Californian tech giant to make its devices touch free.
According to the FT , Apple has already built prototypes of headsets to compete with Facebook's Oculus Rift, Microsoft's Hololens and Magic Leap, the secretive startup Google has invested in.
A new study from the University of California, Berkeley has revealed that our brains determine the average mood of a crowd by looking at facial expressions, and variants reveal mixed emotions.
Yawns are an emotional signal that women are better able to respond to empathy, according to experts at Pisa University in Italy.
Microsoft will automatically download and begin to install Windows 10 to some users of Windows 7 and 8, the firm confirmed today.
A new image release by Nasa has revealed a 'huge amount of gravitational energy' moving in intergalactic space, around 500 million light years from Earth.
The University of Iowa footage reveals how cancerous cells recruit cells into tumors by extending a type of cable to grab their neighbors-both cancerous and healthy-and reel them in.
Researchers say the North Atlantic absorbed 100 percent more man-made carbon dioxide over the last decade than the previous one.
Aristotle's Masterpiece was first published in 1684 and contains advice about 'actions of the genitals' and 'benefits of marriage'. It is expected to fetch between £10,000-15,000 at auction next month.
Drones, take your mark; the Drone Racing League is putting custom quadcopters head-to-head in the first professional race series of its kind. The season kicks off at Miami Lights Sun Life Stadium.
The Pentagon report has revealed a massive list of potentially lethal bugs still facing the jet. It found serious problems with computer software, and issues with hundreds of systems.
Fitbit just unveiled its newest fitness tracker, Alta. The device aims to cater to the more relaxed user with a more stylish design. And it still has the same technology as other models.
Researchers from 23andMe in California quizzed 90,000 people and analysed their DNA, finding that 'morning people' tend to be thinner and are less prone to depression and insomnia.
Memphis Meats, which grows meat from animal cells, plans to have its animal-free products on the market in three to four years and unveiled the first lab-grown meatball this week.
The South Korean film unveiled the concept during the summer has now showcased the first run of trucks that will take part in a trial in Argentina later this year (pictured).
Researchers at Messerli Research Institute at Vetmeduni Vienna tested the cognitive abilities of 95 border collies or sheepdogs, ranging in age from five months to 13 years.
Researchers from New York University wrote a book entitled, 'Obfuscation', which is a toolkit filled with privacy protecting techniques to teach users how to be invisible to data thieves.
Stunned scientists say the perpetrator, called Kondor, recruited a male as a hired gun. A 'co-ordinated' 33 minute attack saw Sidony (pictured), an elderly female, sustain massive injuries that later killed her.
Researchers at Columbia University, in New York, studied how the molecular 'clocks' encoded in our DNA differ from chimpanzees, which go through puberty six years earlier than humans.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh were able to gauge how levels of ice covering the land in West Antarctica (pictured) have changed over hundreds of thousands of years.
Belgium-based Mathias Bynens , a 'web standards fanatic' recently revealed that changing the URL of public photos shared to these platforms will generate the ASCII version.
Nielsen revealed there are just four hours during the day when activity is high on Tinder. From 5pm to 9pm are the best times to login. But between 8pm and 9pm is prime time to find a potential match.
Xenoturbella churro is among four bright fuschia flatworm-like animals found near hydrothermal vents and a whale carcass off the coast of California (illustrated).
Google said in a statement that one reason for the new site in the northwest United States is to gain experience in 'different driving environments, traffic patterns, and road conditions.'
Researchers from Harvard Kennedy School and the University of California have found that exposure to exceptional performance can push us away from attaining higher-level performance.
Microsoft recently placed a steel capsule that contained a data center 30 feet underwater in the Pacific Ocean near the coast of San Luis Obispo.
According to SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk, who made a surprise appearance at the Hyperloop Pod Competition Design Weekend, tunnels are the answer to solve city traffic.
The announcement of the pilot project was made by Dr Anthony House, a senior Google executive, while giving evidence to MPs in the UK parliament last week.
By assembling the first complete genome of bedbugs, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History and Weill Cornell Medicine may be on the way to controlling these ancient pests.
Czech archaeologists unearthed the ancient funerary boat near the Abusir pyramids south of Cairo, in a discovery that could shed light on shipbuilding in ancient Egypt.
Psychologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, analysed emotional language in 407 statements from people facing the death penalty in Texas.
For one well-endowed harvestman, death could not have come at a more inconvenient time. Ancient arachnid entombed in amber has a massive erection that has persisted for 99 million years.
Whether you realize it or not, your fitness tracker could be leaking your personal data to anyone who knows how to access it, according to a study from Open Effect and the University of Toronto.
A researcher at the University of Wisconsin, believes that changing a robot's behaviour of eye contact can improve the experience for the people they talk to.
The model (pictured at different stages of its development) was created by researchers at the Harvard collaborating with scientists in Finland and France.
Aviation specialists have built a glider capable of reaching altitudes of 90,000ft (27,430 metres) using nothing but wind - and are set to attempt to become the highest plane in history in June.
The comments were made in the Professor Hawking's second Reith lecture. He added that a mountain-sized black hole would give off X-rays and gamma rays, at a rate of about 10 million megawatts.
London-based start-up SwiftKey has confirmed it has been taken over by Microsoft. The company was started in 2008, launching its predictive auto-correcting keyboard app on Android in 2010.
OpenSignal released a report comparing the four major mobile carriers. T-Mobile received awards in latency and speed. Verizon beat out the competition with overall network reliability.
Ohio State University has been testing if objects that mimic trees have the potential to generate power from the wind. Scientists created a tree-like device that creates 8 volts when moved.
Researchers explain how Vikings could have used 'sunstones' to locate the sun on cloudy days. And if the theory is true, they could've discovered the basic principles of polarized light.
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.
Experts from US hospitals and institutions including Harvard University managed to transplant cells into mice, which immediately began producing insulin.
London surgeons say they are seeing an increase in the number of people wanting to correct what they wrongly believe are 'horsey' teeth, not realising that their phone is creating a distorted photo.
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