Astronomers using the Arceibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico (pictured) have detected short bursts of powerful radio waves repeatedly from the same source.
If you're curious about where your surname sprung from or what's the world's most common last name, a website that collates genealogical data can help you find out. Forbears.io can show how common your surname is, how many people bear the same title and whether it originated from an occupation, a male ancestor or a topographical feature.The most common surname in the US, Britain and Australia is Smith, according to the website.
Researchers from the University of California Berkeley used imaging techniques to identify 'clumps' of protein called tau that accumulate in the brains of older people leading to memory loss.
A group of researchers at the Université Paris-Sud, has discovered that the formation of Mars' giant volcanoes and its great tilt happened almost a billion years later than first thought.
The accidental discovery was made by Jinru He, a graduate student in marine biology at China's Xiamen University when a polyp appeared on the corpse of a dead adult jellyfish.
Dr Springmann from Oxford University claimed climate change could cut food availability by 2050, leading to around 3.2 per cent less food being available for the average person.
Urban Periscope was created by the person who made NoPhone. This new device slides over your phone case and has a lens on top that redirects your vision 90 degrees while you walk.
Renowned Apple leak blog Mac Otakara reports that the iPhone 7 will be 1mm thinner than its predecessor, the iPhone 6S, and will measure just 6.1mm in thickness.
A system known as DE-STAR - or Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation - will use laser beams to intercept and deflect space rocks. The concept has been around for several years, but a new paper is now presenting it as a viable solution to ward off dangerous 'Near Earth Objects' (NEOs). The system is the brainchild of UC Santa Barbara physicist Philip Lubin and Gary Hughes, a researcher and professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. The inset concept diagram shows an orbiting DE-STAR engaged in multiple tasks including asteroid diversion, composition analysis, and long-range spacecraft power and propulsion.
Northrop Grumman has released rare aerial footage of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber in action. The B-2 is the world's only long range stealth bomber, and can fly 6,000 nautical miles without refueling.
The British Navy has fired its first torpedo using a radical new 'brain' fitted to a nuclear submarine.
Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico used an fMRI scanner to examine the brains of dogs looking at images of humans and everyday objects (pictured).
Our planet's temperature rose to yet another record high last month, reaching 1.5°C above average, according to an unofficial data set by the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
Sentinel-3A was first released into orbit on February 16th and is the third of more than a dozen 'eyes in the sky' that part of the Copernicus program to monitor our planet's health.
Google is testing ways to let people use digital wallets without having to even take smartphones out of their pockets.
A UFO watcher claims to have filmed an alien spacecraft (circled) hiding itself in storm clouds using highly advanced 'camouflage technology'. Footage of the incident, filmed from inside a parked car which the witness later uploaded to YouTube, shows a cylindrical object nestled among grey storm clouds in San Antonio, Texas. However, many of those who watched the video were quick to establish it looked more like a drop of water on the vehicle's windscreen than a UFO.
A new augmented reality headset aims to turn the world into your personal desktop. The $949 Meta 2 headset is an immersive experience, allowing for a wide field of view and direct interactions with holograms. Its developers say this technology has potential to do away with computing as we know it, creating an 'intuitive interface,' where holograms can be grabbed and moved like physical objects.
'Broken heart syndrome' - a condition thought to affect 6,000 people in Britain each year - occurs when extreme emotional stress causes the heart to shut down, but can also be the result of happy events.
Scientists from Monash University in Melboune discovered a molecule in the venom of a pit viper that activates enzymes in the brain that help break down amyloid plaques - a hallmark of Alzheimer's.
OpenSSL is one of the most common security software packages in the world, and researchers led by the University of Adelaide have just discovered it is vulnerable to a side-channel attack.
Curiscope has designed Virtuali-tee, a smart T-shirt that when viewed through the firm's app on a mobile device that allows users to take a 3D animated journey through the human body.
Gemstones can be changed from reddish black to light pink with fewer defects by treating them in a microwave furnace, India's Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology discovered.
With tourists jetting off to Spain and beyond, MailOnline Travel has compiled a list of handy hacks for common phone problems such as cracked screens that may be encountered overseas.
Researchers at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome believe graphene oxide (graphene illustrated) could hold the key to fighting infection from hospital superbugs.
The study, by researchers from the University of Toledo in Ohio, included data from 14,484 people age 24 to 32. About 14 per cent reported they had been diagnosed with migraines. Stock image.
Scientists from the University of Florida found alligators (pictured) living near colonies of nesting birds were in better shape when compared to those that weren't.
The Cambrige University researchers found giving mothers anti-oxidants, (health-boosting nutrients found in high levels in fruit and vegetables) may have an anti-ageing effect in their children.
Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth yesterday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. They landed in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST. In an interview before heading home to Houston, Kelly said it was 'amazing' to feel the cold air when the hatch of his Soyuz capsule popped open after touchdown. 'I don't mean to say it's not fresh on the space station,' he said, 'but there's nothing like new cold air coming into the capsule.' He added that the burning smell of the capsule (pictured right) as it was coming down surprised him. 'The actual burning smell of the capsule is odd,' he said. 'It smells a little bit like a fragrance. I thought it was vegetation initially.'
Genetic analysis from Rutgers University found dragonfly, officially known as Pantala flavescens (pictured), covers more distance than any other insect, as well as many migrating birds.
LMCable is a startup based in Perth, Australia, that has made the world's first cable containing a 2-in-1 connector that can work on both micro USB and Lightning ports.
The Pentagon will invite vetted outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public U.S. Defense Department websites as
part of a pilot project next month.
Research from scientists at the University of California suggests that the emotion may have evolved to defend us against social isolation and emotional pain.
To celebrate the Happy Meal being 30 years old in Sweden, McDonald's restaurants in the country will be giving away boxes that will transform into virtual reality headsets.
The Californian search giant said teams (stock image) work best when their members feel like they can take risks, can count on each other, have clear goals and believe their work matters.
Researchers have developed a new method for sequencing the Y chromosome in gorillas, and it's revealed some surprising similarities between these animals and humans.
IBM and American Sleep Apnea Association have teamed up in developing the SleepHealth app, uses Apple Watch sensors to measure movements and monitor hear rate while you're fast asleep.
Players of the simulator type in their postcode to become 'patient zero' and spread smallpox (stock image of patient pictured centre) through their neighbourhood. They then make choices about which hospital they would choose to use and the simulator charts the spread of infections and riots (top right) military defections (bottom right) and the collapse of civilisation within a month (screenshot left).
Researchers at Duke University in North Carolina believe the variety of sizes of cosmic bodies such as planets (pictured) is down to the 'constructal law' he discovered
Ever wondered why your smartphone only lets you snooze for nine minutes? One curious user took to the web to ask why, and the answer may be a remnant from the pre-digital age.
The American Chemical Society has calculated that a 165lb (75kg) person stepping on a Lego brick generates three million pascals of pressure which triggers pain receptors in the sole of a food.
The University of Washington has discovered using 'biosignatures' to determine the difference between life and the illusion of life on other planets.
Two eruptions that happened forty years a part resulted in the formation of one large island, says researchers. The first was bursts of lava and the other was fountains of lava.
The University of California have revealed a system that engineers bacteria to breakdown proteins in human waste and transform the material into a biofuel.
The new atom smasher (pictured) located at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, is designed to explore 'new physics' that goes beyond what scientists call the Standard Model.
A researcher at the University of Durham studied fragments of 440 million-year-old fossils to conclude Tortotubus (pictured) was key to kick starting life on Earth.
More than 500,000 documents were found when the Victorian archaeologists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt (bottom right) discovered the ancient city Oxyrhynchus, about 120 miles (193km) south of modern Cairo, in 1897 (bottom left). But until 2012, only 5,000 were ever translated. Now, volunteers are helping to decipher the texts (top), including a long-lost rendition of the Book of Exodus, written in the style of a Greek tragedy by an author called Ezekiel.
Kolponomos was thought to have eaten much like modern sea otters, but a study by the American Museum of Natural History in New York shows they had jaws like formidable ice age big cats.
The record El Niño could be transporting and spreading waterborne diseases like cholera thousands of miles, across oceans, with significant impacts for public health, researchers have warned.
Researchers at Stanford University have put several years of work into developing the autonomous car named Shelley in aims to tap into the functionality of race car driving.
Jeff Needles, a business intelligence analyst in San Francisco, created the tool to tell users whether they are 'emoji newb', simply literate, or if they're a master of using the icons.
Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering is running a project to launch a satellite that will become the brightest object in the night sky when it is launched later this year.
Grabbing a handrail on the New York subway system transfers as much bacteria as shaking hands with 10,000 people, according to a recent study by Travelmath.
Scientists at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands say manganese dioxide rocks found at a Neanderthal site in France may have been used help light fires.
According to a philosophy lecturer at the University of London., swear words may hold a special role in expression due to the taboo nature of such language, and its unique ability to convey emotion.
The crew of the yacht Maiken (inset) were sailing through the south Pacific near the Vava'u Islands in Tonga when they noticed that the water in the distance was a strange colour (top left). Then, as they approached, the sea mysteriously turned to stone (top right). The crew documented the phenomenon in a series of remarkable pictures as they sailed into formation (bottom left) to investigate it. What they didn't yet know was that, just a few miles away, a volcano was erupting under the surface (bottom right), spewing out new land that formed an island right before their eyes.
Jan Woerner said 'the future of space travel needs a new vision,' and claims his moon village would allow mining, tourism and research - as well as acting as a stopoff for Mars missions.
The virtual reality tour takes the visitor through the city in first person, visiting all the famous sites including the Pantheon and the Colosseum (pictured), as they would have looked in 320 AD.
With the help of a joint of pork, and ballistics gel, a team of scientists from London reveals how a bullet fired from a handgun (stock image) can easily pass straight through flesh if unhindered.
London-based HTC developer, Shen Ye, who works in HTC's VR team tweeted: 'Woah, more than 15k units in less than 10 min' with a surprised face emoji.
The study, from University College London analysed more than 6,000 people with varied ancestry to identify new genes linked to colour, greying (George Clooney pictured), density and curls.
Researchers explain the benefits of asexual animals, in that it is easier to grow a population quickly. But there are still more advantages to being sexual, as it helps animals adapt to change.
Engineers at Georgia Tech in Atlanta created a mock fire and were surprised when volunteers blindly followed an 'emergency guide robot' (pictured) heading in the wrong direction.
Mary J. Miller told the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities 'I believe we're very close' to laser weapons.
UFO hunters claim to have made a new discovery on the red planet, and they say it has significant religious implications. The alien enthusiasts have spotted what they say is a cross on a rocky Martian hill, and it stands just a stone's throw away from an alleged 'caved in roof' of a nearby structure. This bizarre claim was first spurred by a UFO hunter in France, who noticed the unusual shapes in a photo taken by Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover.
With a net worth of $75billion, Microsoft head Bill Gates hit the top spot on Forbes' 2016 World Billionaires list for the third year in a row, after overcoming telecom's Carlos Slim Helu in 2014.
Dr Helen Morrison, a forensic psychiatrist based in Chicago, has studied and interviewed 135 serial killers, according to an infographic compiled by the website Best Counseling Degrees .
At Mobile World Congress, Vkansee president Jason Chaikin demonstrated just how easily fingerprint sensors can be bypassed by lifting another person's fingerprint with common moulding materials.
The first giant fin has now been attached to the 300ft-long ship, officially called the 'Airlander'. The two fins at the hanger in Cardington, Bedfordshire could cover the playing area of a tennis court.
A video released by The Sheivae Project claims to contain the genuine recording of an alien named Sheivae, who has reached out in response to the 1977 message of a Nasa Voyager.
Researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina found eyes are less well adapted than birds to spot the distinctive red hourglass marks on the spiders' abdomens (shown).
The fossilised nervous system was discovered in China from the animal Chengjiangocaris kunmingensi. The rare find will help us understand how the nervous system evolved.
A team at Washington University say their 'Passive Wi-Fi' system offers transfer speeds of up to 11 megabits per second and has been shown to work at distances of 100 feet.
A calculator (screenshot shown) made by Detroit-based auto giant Ford lets users work out how long and how much cash they spend getting to work over a lifetime.
Classifying people's appearances based on 'rigid gender boxes' can cause a person to perceive others as less attractive, a new study led by University of California, San Diego.
Archaeologists have uncovered a large ancient wine press (pictured left) and Roman bathhouse (pipes shown top right) beneath the site of a famous orphanage in Jerusalem. The buildings and pottery (bottom right) found at the site are some 1,600-years-old and have been dated to the Roman or Byzantine period. Some bricks are stamped with the name of the Tenth Roman Legion suggesting soldiers were garrisoned there having played a role in the conquest of Jewish Jerusalem in 70AD.
Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin, who carried out the study, say the findings provide new insight into the differences between monolinguals and bilinguals.
Alessandro Chiarenza from Imperial College London stumbled across the fossilised femur bone during his visit to the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology in Palermo Italy. Dinosaur illustrated.
The new Nasa study precisely determines the strength and direction of the magnetic field outside the heliosphere, revealing the forces that dominate the galaxy beyond ours.
In the very last second before lift off from Cape Canaeral in Florida on Sunday, SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to send a communications satellite into orbit.
Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory for soft bioelectronic interfaces (LSBI) in Lausanne, Switzerland developed the conductive tracks or circuits (pictured) that are as flexible as rubber.
In a proof of concept experiment, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) produced super thin, flexible solar cells that they claim are 'as efficient' as glass versions.
Researchers from the University of St Andrews found we rate attractive people (example pictured ) as being more intelligent, and this impacts how we judge their suitability for tasks, for example.
Researchers from Oxford University said that faced with an ageing population, simply asking people how they feel could prove to be an effective way of separating out those in need of help.
Brooklyn-based artist Joana Ricou teamed up with biologists to photograph samples of bacteria found in people's belly buttons, four samples taken from people called 'Clive', 'Derwent', 'Esther' and 'Darren' are pictured top left to right. In total, the artist has created more than 400 portraits from the samples. She said she is inviting people to think about the other parts of their bodies, that aren't human, including the bacteria living inside their belly buttons.
Photographer Maurice Mikkers from the Netherlands created the shots in a bid to see if different triggers created different looking designs. A psychic tear, triggered by emotion, is pictured.
Africa's Garamba Park was once home to 500 rhinos, 20,000 elephants and 350 giraffes. Today, rhinos have been wiped out, less than 1,500 elephants and just 38 Kordofan giraffes (pictured).
The United Nations report was approved by a congress of 124 nations meeting in Kuala Lumpur. They have suggested a number of solutions in an attempt to solve the problem.
A group or researchers at the University of Kent studied speeches of politicians in three countries and found conservatives prefer using nouns in their speeches compared liberals.
The new handset will be called the iPhone SE, standing for special edition, and will launch next months alongside a smaller iPad Pro with a 9.7inch screen, according to 9to5Mac .
Geologists at the Regional Center for Scientific Research and Technology Transfer discovered a site in Patagonia home to the biggest and most varied collection of Jurassic fossils (example shown)
A group at the Florida Institute of Technology has found that CID devices could be used for imaging earth-like planets that appear extremely faint next to their host stars.
The UV Pro Shoe Sanitizer eliminates up to 99.9 per cent of germs that thrive in dark, damp environments such as shoes, according to its creator, based in Seattle, Washington.
Norwegian fighter pilot Morten 'Dolby' Hanche, pictured, has spent the past four months training on the F-35 stealth jet at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona having spent 2,200 hours on the F-16. Hanche claims the jet can perform a stunt seen during the 1986 movie Top Gun because of the aircraft's extreme manoeuvrability and its ability to 'stick like glue' to an opponent.
Researchers at the University of Leicester found women who are attracted to dominant men generally feel more at risk of victimisation - even when their risk of victimisation is low.
Researchers found that many people believe gay men and women are more sexually promiscuous than heterosexuals - and could threaten their own marriages and their way of life.
Neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis studied the brains of epilepsy patients to gain an understanding into neural activity during 'teleportation' (Star Trek image pictured).
Students at a school in Houston who listened to rap music three hours each day in the seventh grade were 2.6 times more likely to have had sex by the ninth grade. Stock image.
San Francisco-based software engineer, Søren Louv-Jansen, discovered a way to determine the sleeping habits of his friends using 'time stamps' taken from Facebook's own Messenger service.
The plan is the brainchild of Lockheed Martin's space systems division, headquartered in Maryland, which is looking at ways to use Nasa's Orion capsule as a cislunar base.
A was photo taken last week of Mark Zuckerberg walking past a sea of people hooked up to a VR headset and people said it looked 'isolating'. But Zuckerberg says it is the complete opposite.
Scientists at Michigan State University found that yeast cells whose ability to break down fat molecules was suppressed, and so had more fat, tended to live longer than those who had lower levels of fat.
A new web app, designed by geographers at University College London, uses data from the Consumer Data Research Centre to return where the surname is most concentrated in the UK (pictured top), in comparison to the general population of the area. The heat maps show the highest likelihood in red, with the lowest in pale yellow. It claims that it can even predict where a couple likely met, based on both of their surnames (pictured bottom).
The work, by the American Museum of Natural History, could help researchers pinpoint the parents of type Ia supernovae and reveal what happens during these explosions.
Researchers from the University of Bern have shown that an additional process is not responsible for the time lag, as previously thought. Red indicates positive values, and blue is negative.
Kevin Kruse, who lives in Philadelphia, said that to-do lists (stock image) are 'where important tasks go to die' and that they can make people more stressed out.
China's leading smartphone maker, Xiaomi, unveiled Wednesday its new flagship device and hinted it was looking to launch in the US and Europe.
Researchers say the Dodo wasn't so daft - and actually had a supersense. The bird had the same size brain as a pigeon - and a highly developed sense of smell.
Researchers from the University of Oxford, focused on the role played by neurons in two species, turtle doves (pictured) and reed warblers, making their way from Africa to Europe.
Scientists from West Virginia University detected the source of an FRB in 2015. Although its cause is still a mystery, by locating where the burst came from they can learn more about the universe.
Researchers have proposed using living cells to grow components of spacecraft while in orbit. This technology will also be used to feed our astronauts and team us to grow in harsh conditions.
Amateur explorers stumbled across the cave in 2002, in the vast, empty desert near Egypt's southwest border with Libya and Sudan. The cave, which is also known as Wadi Sura II, includes 5,000 images that were painted or engraved into stone around 8,000 years earlier. Among the images are what was believed to be stencilled hands and feet of children. But now, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research claims the prints in the Egyptian cave have hands that are too small, and the fingers to long, to belong to a human.
Experts at Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have identified genetic pathways that increase the severity of canine compulsive disorder (CCD).
Researchers at Google and RWTH Aachen University, Germany developed PlaNet, which they say has 'superhuman levels of accuracy' when guessing the location of a photograph.
Known as the 'mint-sauce worm' (pictured) due to its bright-green colour, S. roscoffensis is found in shallow water on sheltered sand beaches at certain sites on the Atlantic Coast.
Anthropologists at Monash University in Victoria, Australia, analysed the teeth of modern and fossils from early human species and found they can predict the size of other teeth from just a single sample.
Scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found male nursery web spiders that tie their partner up during sex (pictured) are less likely to become a post coital snack than those that skip bondage.
Researchers from the University of Victoria, Canada, spent a month off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, playing the sounds of dogs barking to scare raccoons.
Emma Seppala suggests that you don't have to choose between being happy or being successful -- you can have both. She has identified 6 ways to have the best of both worlds.
Fairphone, based in the Netherlands, showed MailOnline how simple it is to replace components on its latest handset, the Fairphone 2 (pictured).
Boston Dynamics' 'Spot' robot, built in Waltham, Massachusetts, received a less than friendly welcome from a terrier named Alex belonging to Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android. Alex can be seen barking at (pictured left and bottom right) and chasing (top right) Spot in a dog versus robot stand-off captured in a video by venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson who shared the footage on YouTube.
The eero system (box pictured), from San Francisco-based engineers, has been designed to banish Wi-Fi 'dead zones' by boosting a router's signal inside, and outside, a house.
IoFit Smart Balance can improve your golf-swing by measuring the force at different points along your foot and determining your left-right and front-back balance.
The US Army has patented a radical self destructing bullet is says could make using live ammunition in urban areas far safer and reduce 'collateral damage'.
The app called Connectidy is a 'cognitive dating platform' powered by IBM Watson, and artificial intelligence will make sure you never have an awkward exchange again.
Leicester University graduate psychologist Lidia Stanton claims that reading is a form of brainwashing. Literate people feel compelled to read words, even if they don't want to.
Google is leading the charge with operators around the world to implement Rich Communications Services, which will allow photo and file sharing, group chats and video calls.
The pattern was revealed by a new statistical analysis technique, developed at Rutgers University, which extracts global data from local records. Stock image.
The Dilophosaurus wetherilli, found in Arizona, lived around 193 million years ago and shows evidence of having suffered from up to eight painful maladies during its life.
The space agency has reborn its 'X-plane' project with a new supersonic jet design it hopes could one day replace passenger jets. The project is the first in a series of 'X-planes' in NASA's New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency's Fiscal Year 2017 budget, Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden revealed. The Quiet Supersonic Technology (pictured) could takeoff in 2020 if funding is approved, and will have a supersonic 'heartbeat' rather than one large boom used by Concorde (inset), it is hoped.
Scientists from the University of California identified a mutation in the gene PER3 in people who experienced seasonal affective disorder and Familial Advanced Sleep Phase.
Scientists gave students at St Andrews and Sussex Universities smelly T-shirts bearing a rival university's logo and found they were more disgusted by these than used shirts from their own university.
The hand drawn map was created by Eleanor Lutz, a Seattle-based science illustrato. It uses data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, which is on Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
A historian claims to have found the site of a battle that saw the forces of William the Conqueror crush an army raised by the sons of King Harold II on the outskirts of Appledore in Devon (pictured).
Tamar Kricheli-Katz and a team from Tel Aviv University looked at data from over a million transactions from 2009-2012 involving the most popular products auctioned on eBay.
Snow cover is shown in white, moonlit nighttime terrain in purple, city lights from major metropolitan areas in yellow, and daytime land and shallow-water features in true color.'
Research from the University of Virginia showed that households with unemployed adults spent 20% more on over-the-counter painkillers compared to those in which one adult worked.
Biologists at the Australian National University in Canberra have found evidence that suggests plants have evolved to forget stressful situations that may hinder the growth of their offspring.
The Moken children, who live a semi-nomadic lifestyle on the west coast of Thailand, have underwater vision that's twice as good as European children of the same age. Like dolphins, they appear to be able to spot small items, such as clams, beneath the waves without much difficulty. In 1999, Anna Gislen at the University of Lund, in Sweden decided to test whether the unique characteristics of the Moken tribe was genetic. According to an in-depth report in the BBC , she recently went back to the same tribe and found that the young children she studied, now in their late teens, still have the ability to see underwater.
Researchers from Harvard University have invented a material (pictured) to collect and transport water droplets, based on the processes used by a desert beetle, a cactus and a pitcher plant.
Researchers at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille studied the galaxy, named NGC 4569, and found it is moving so fast that gas is being stripped from the galaxy
The Macbook Selfie Stick functions just like a smartphone selfie stick - except that it can fit a full-size Macbook computer in its grips. It was created as an art project by Art404, John Yuyi, and Tom Galle.
The video of starlings was captured on a smartphone by Michael Mason in the UK, who shared it with the BBC. Little is known about why these murmurations occur, but it might be to confuse predators.
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology constructed a special tank to film the bizarre sea creatures and found they propel themselves with 'wings' they move like butterflies.
Sir David Attenborough appears in a new virtual reality video with the titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found. The discovery was made in Argentina.
The Samsung Connected Auto dongle (pictured) was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It plugs into any car's on-board diagnostics to provide a web connection and monitor driving.
Astronomer Erik Zackrisson from Uppsala University in Sweden has been using computer simulations to model all of the terrestrial planets likely to exist in the universe.
Nasa's latest prediction shows asteroid 203 TX68 it will fly by 3m miles (5m km) from our planet on March 8th - and 'poses no threat to Earth'. Nasa's initial estimate showed the whale-sized space rock may skim past Earth at just 11,000 miles (17,000 km), which is around 21 times closer to Earth than the moon - but Nasa admitted this estimate may be widely inaccurate, and the asteroid may also pass Earth as far out as 9 million miles (14 million km).
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, French start-up Oledcomm demonstrated the capabilities of Li-Fi, using just an office lamp to start playing a smartphone video.
Alien hunters claim they see a 'handgun' on Mars in a Nasa photo. Martian searchers suggest it was thrown on the planet's surface when an alien made a crash landing, as it there is also UFO debris.
EXCLUSIVE: Biologists at Roehampton University in London studied the gait of overweight king penguins returning to the land after feeding and those who lost weight after fasting while caring for chicks.
A massive iceberg cut a colony of Adélie penguins off from its food source in Antarctica, leading many to report that 150,000 have died. But some experts say they may have just relocated to find food.
American wildlife law enforcement officers are turning to robotic decoys, using a remote-controlled task force of deer, foxes, and other animals to trap poachers before any harm is done.
LG made the announcement at a press conference ahead of the Mobile World Congress technology show in Barcelona. The phone is pictured right and the module is shown in yellow.
A new flexible smartphone design could change the way users interact with their devices. ReFlex, developed by researchers at Queen's University, uses 'bend sensors' to control app interactions.
Mattel is give Barbie a high-tech makeover with a voice controlled home and her own hoverboad, The firm will also be launched a 3D printer that will allow kids to create and build their own unique toys.
A small probe could get to Mars in less time than it takes to watch 'Interstellar'. That's according to physicist, Phillip Lubin, who recently outlined how a probe could reach the red planet in just three days. Now, Lubin says that time could be reduced to just 30 minutes by using extremely powerful lasers to propel a wafer-thin probe. He claims that by firing a laser at a spacecraft, it would have the ability to achieve frictionless acceleration in space. That would allow it to reach a more than a quarter speed of light in just minutes. This means that the craft would be travelling at roughly 174.3 million miles per hour.
Find the 'T' in the image above. (Hint: it won't be red). If you want to find something fast, knowing what not to look for can help speed things up, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
LightSail-2, the successor to the LightSail cubesat that launched last year, is being developed by engineers in California. The mission is designed to test how effective solar sails are in space.
Comparing Maven's images of the surface of Phobos to similar data from asteroids and meteorites will help Nasa scientists understand the moon's origin.
AT&T; confirmed DirecTV packages that run on apps and don't need a dish or TV set-top box are coming in the fourth quarter - but refused to reveal channel lineup or pricing for the new service.
McGill University has designed biological computer that is able to process information quickly and accurately using parallel networks and the same substance that powers human cells.
Researchers from Ohio State University found long-term stress (stock image pictured) can cause memory loss and inflammation in the brain - and the immune system is to blame.
Thousands of social media users reported seeing a white, red or blue light that turned night into day at around 6.45pm from Inverness to Edinburgh.
The video by Norwegian airline shows the work that goes into building a jet plane from an empty shell. The plane will be used to fly passengers from London to New York, LA and Florida.
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The new larger version of the military drone with wings 79 feet long can fly for 40 hours at a time rather the 27 hours current models can manage.
'Bromances' in male chimpanzees have been found to work as a buffer in social settings, making confrontations less stressful for a chimp who fights alongside a close partner.
British astronaut Tim Peake captured the spectacular moment on camera (pictured) and described the 'thick green fog' of the aurora as 'eerie but very beautiful'.
The rare animals, which live in an aquarium at Postojnska caves in Slovenia, are the only cave-dwelling vertebrates in Europe and have evolved for their subterranean environment
Researchers from Stanford University in California have found that people living in areas with the brightest lights at night are more likely to sleep less than six hours per night and waking up in the night.
Internal photos appear to show the handset will not have a 3D touch screen like the flagship 6s series.
Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringe, based in Los Angeles, posted a 360-degree interactive 'Where's Waldo?' video letting viewers look for the character. A shot from the video is shown.
A one-minute video on Google Map's twitter has started a panic among Android users and are curious if this change will actually occur in the new Android N or will there be an option to disable it.
A 'significant' archaeological site has been discovered at Little Carlton, near Louth in Lincolnshire, with a host of ornate silver writing instruments, coins and brooches pulled up.
Microsoft has opened up preorder sales for its HoloLens to developers who have been pre-approved. The set costs $3,000 and is set to ship March 30th with 7 new apps/games for users.
After discovering piles of stones next to trees at four research sites in West Africa, field teams placed camera traps to discover why and how the stones were used by chimps.
Research carried out at the University of Waterloo and University of Lethbridge, in Canada, claims time isn't constant, and we can someday pinpoint discrete units of time.
Scientists at the Royal Veterinary College in London found by making the wings broader at the base and pointed at the end they became more agile in the air.
A new draft of proposed laws was presented to Parliament this afternoon after three scathing inquiries blasted the original as rushed and flawed.
The U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine Brooklyn drug case, a New York judge says.
The theory has been explained by astrophysicist Thomas Kitching from the University of College London.
Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly has landed back on Earth after spending nearly a year on the International Space Station.
Android Pay was rolled out in the US in September and it works with Near-Field Communication (NFC) chips built into handsets and contactless payment terminals.
Researchers led by the Theodosius Dobzhansky Centre for Genome Bioinformatics at St Petersburg State University in Russia sequenced a cheetah's genome.
An international team of behaviour scientists, led by the University of Oxford explained 'noise' experienced when making decisions can explain seemingly irrational choices.
Japan prepares to mark five years since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country's north-east coast causing a meltdown at Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Researchers from Eawag and the University of Bern studied fish in Lake Constance, Switzerland. The fish have been there for the last 150 years, which is not a long time in evolutionary terms.
Scientists at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, have engineered E. coli cells so they can only survive when they are part of a swarm and die if their density falls (pictured)
Professors Richard Morris, (left) Tim Bliss (right) and Graham Collingridge (not pictured) are the first UK scientists to share the Brain Prize, regarded as the 'Nobel' of neuroscience.
The collision occurred on Valentine's Day in Mountain View, California, and Google reported it to California's Department of Motor Vehicles in an accident report that the agency posted Monday.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh used kidney tissue samples to re-programme the behaviour of cells so they spontaneously formed spots or stripes.
Speaking at the Science Museum in London, Dr Aldrin (pictured) believes that through international collaboration and the input of big businesses a human colony could be established on Mars.
Boston Dynamic has revealed the new wireless version of its humanoid robot in a new video showing it walk, run, and even be pushed over and get up again on its own.
Mercedes-Benz announced it is getting rid of the robots that assemble the customized luxury cars and replacing them with a human staff. The robots were unable to make the cars fast enough.
Dr Rene Heller and Professor Ralph Pudritz from McMaster University in Canada discuss ways to ensure we will not miss a call from ET in a paper published in the journal Astrobiology.
WhatsApp has announced it will no longer support a range of older operating platforms, phasing out support for Blackberry, Nokia and older Windows and Android models by 2017.
The ghastly creature is captured slithering its way between rocks and up the side of the tank in the clip, filmed in the U.S, after the man spotted it while he was cleaning the aquarium's filthy glass.
Nasa scientists (pictured) spent a month drilling in the Atacama desert, Chile, testing drilling and life-detection technologies that might be sent to Mars in future.
Results are filtered to be child-friendly, but users testing Kiddle (screenshot shown) have found some dubious results, including one about a dead rabbit, racy pictures and blocking the word 'gay'.
Scientists at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California - owned by Boeing and General Motors - improved the skills of novice pilots by 33 per cent using the new technique.
Within the venomous cocktail of toxins in the bite of the Thrixopelma pruriens are peptides which target nerve receptors, explained the researchers from the University of Queensland.
The enhanced colour image of the north polar area shows long canyons run vertically. The widest of the canyons - is about 45 miles (75 kilometers) wide. The yellow hue is caused by solar radiation.
Cambridge-based computer company Raspberry Pi announced the milestone as it unveiled the latest version of its simple computer, the Raspberry Pi 3 (pictured).
Steven Petrow, who writes for USA Today and the Washington Post, was astonished when the hacker told him he had read his emails on the flight from Dallas to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Researchers say we tend to choose partners that look similar to our parents. It isn't just faces either, people will choose mates with the same height, hair and eye colour and even amount of body hair.
Scientists at Beihang University in Beijing found Humboldt penguins (pictured) have nanoscale ridges and hooks on their feathers that repel water and ice from forming.
A new particle has been discovered at Fermilab and researchers say it's exhibiting unusual properties, containing four 'flavours' of quarks and antiquarks, as a possible tetraquark.
Researchers explain that among animals, parental duties are the females responsibility and males compete with each other. But due to physiological changes these roles can be reversed.
The unmanned shop, in the southern Sweden village of Viken, uses a smartphone app (pictured) to allow customers to scan their own shopping, meaning no staff are required.
The pendant (pictured) was discovered by archaeologists from the Universities of York, Manchester and Chester during excavations at the Star Carr site and is unique in the UK.
Japanese electronics firm Kyocera showcased its prototype phone with a 'WYSIPS' screen at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
A new study has collected insight from international experts to reach a consensus on the tell-tale signs of a cat in pain. The team narrowed it down to 25 signs sufficient for signalling pain.
The colors of an Adidas track jacket are being debated online exactly one year after the social media dispute about whether 'The Dress' is black and blue or white and gold.
Astronomers at the SETI Institute in California and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, say the meteor shower appeared over New Zealand on New Year's Eve.
A group from the University of Toronto Mississauga did two studies and found that when parents suppressed negative emotions it had an impact on the parent's bond with the child.
A natural gas well in California that spewed more than 100,000 tons of the harmful greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere was the largest methane leak in...
A new TEDEd video breaks down the different types of narcissism, from the obvious to the not-so obvious, and explains how these traits almost always take a turn for the dark side.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology studied the genetics of orangutans that were the offspring of two different subspecies, at the Tanjung Puting National Park.
Tinder released the top 15 jobs that receive the most right-swipes. Men are more attracted to female therapists, interior designers and founders. And women desire a male pilot, founder or firefighter.
Scientists at the University of Kent used pioneering 3D imaging to analyse teeth from medieval children which were found in a cemetery in Canterbury, England to reveal what they ate.
If confirmed, the study by Tel Aviv University would shed new light on the debate over how important processed food, physical inactivity and other modern lifestyle factors are on the disease.
Gruesome footage captured during a National Geographic expedition shows the moment a male polar bear chases down its own cub and eats it, leaving traumatized mother to run for her life.
Freewriter is a Wi-Fi connected portable 'smart typewriter' that only has an E-link screen and keys. Writers can save their work on the onboard story, cloud or online apps, but cannot surf the web.
The Equipay app concept uses Bureau of Labor Statistics and math to calculate how much each person owes towards a dinner bill. The final amount reflects how affected you are by income inequalities.
Geoscientists from Heidelberg University studied so-called tektites, or rock glasses, from various parts of the world including Asia, Australia and Canada.
US astronomers announced last month they may have found a ninth planet beyond Neptune, but conceded they had no idea where on an estimated 10,000-20,000-year...
Astronaut Scott Kelly wore a gorilla costume sent to the ISS by his twin brother Mark to celebrate his birthday and British astronaut Tim Peake wore a novelty tuxedo t-shirt for the Brits.
AccuWeather MinuteCast (New York map shown), claims to pinpoint when it's going to start raining in minute detail, over a two-hour time frame customised to exactly where you are.
Researchers at the University of Leicester used DNA from a group of great apes to find most recent common ancestor that all animals alive today from each species have descended from.
The find challenges a previous theory that suggested an influx of people from India into Australia around 4-5,000 years ago.
Male sand martins in Japan were filmed engaging in homosexual necrophilia by researchers from the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology. It is thought they mistook the dead bird for a female.
While politically charged insults and 'Trumpisms' have succeeded in gaining the attention of voters and the media, experts caution that they may also cause Americans to lose faith in politics.
Research has proved for the first time that no one is made dim or bright by their genes, or for that matter, mad or sane. Pictured, Harry Enfield as his character, Tim Nice But Dim.
Researchers at the universities of Leeds and Washington, said people may ditch public transport in favour of driverless cars, increasing the number of vehicles on roads in 20 years.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge tested participants with BMIs from 18 to 51. They found a direct link between a high body mass index (BMI) and poor episodic memory.
The theory has been explained by astrophysicist Thomas Kitching from the University of College London.
A third of people in the UK keep a few essentials ready in case of an apocalyptic event, according to research by astrobiologist Dr Lewis Dartnell. Stock image used.
The study by BT Mobile and Oxford University took an in-depth look into the 'dos and don'ts' of tech etiquette and came up with a modern day guide, including not ending relationships by text.
A study by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia, found bats' immune systems are permanently on rather than merely responding to infections.
The event took place on February 6 at 14:00 UTC when a meteoroid exploded in the air 620 miles (1,000km) off the coast of Brazil. It released energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT.
Kelly held his final news conference from the International Space Station, telling reporters that space is a 'harsh environment,' and you never feel perfectly normal.'
Botanists from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge found that some flowers use a limited form of iridescence to attract bees in order to spread their pollen.
The finding, from psychologists from Yale and Harvard universities in the USA, confirms the theory that 'third party punishment' (TTP) boosts the reputation of the punisher.
Samsung unveiled its two new handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with 'always-on' displays as well as an innovative 360-degree camera .
The Illustris project, led by the Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, simulated a cube of space within the universe, 350 million light years long on each side.
The secret of a speedy supermarket shop has been revealed by scientists.To waste as little time as possible, men should find the trolley and queue up while women do the actual shopping.
The Apex telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at wavelengths between infrared light and radio waves.
Birmingham University researchers set 50 boys and girls 12 puzzles that mimicked foraging for food in the wild. The kids used sticks as rakes, skewers, hammers and levers.
Researchers from the Oklahoma State University have found that men who appear stronger are considered to have more leadership potential and are granted a higher status from their peers.
Marine biologists from the University of California San Diego and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in La Jolla, California have found the cause of 'the buzz'.
Study led by Dartmouth College argues untrained observers largely can't identify computer-generated images accurately, and this could pose challenges in forensic and legal settings.
Experts reveal what's it takes to build a time machine. All you need is a 100km long cylinder that you can rotate so fast it disrupts the fabric of time and space -- that is if you can survive the pressure.
Embraced by average mobile users and high-profile figures alike, including British actor Eddie Redmayne, the 'dumbphone' is making a comeback, and it only performs basic functions.
The illusion works by holding a tube up to one eye and your hand up to the other. It takes advantage of what's known as binocular rivalry where one of your eyes becomes more dominant.
After more than 3,000 hours of testing in London, Starship Technologies' delivery bots are scheduled to start local deliveries in Greenwich next month.
Biologists have discovered two groups of wild western lowland gorillas in the Republic of Congo where the adult males sing and hum while they are eating. They tend to sing more depending on the food.
A patent application filed by Ford aims to give self-driving cars a real personality. The patent reveals different driving styles to suit preferences of owner, from 'chauffeur mode' to 'racecar mode.'
Rutgers University set out to learn how acts of violence and related experiences alter the female brain. They found victims are more prone to depression, PTSD and will neglect their young.
Officially launched on the eve of the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, it's been dubbed the 'world's most powerful, fastest, most luxurious and most exclusive production super sports car' to be built.
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.
After five months of testing, Facebook has begun rolling out the six new emotions on the social network to its 1.6 billion users worldwide. Selection pictured.
Security firm Bastille says 'billions of PC's and millions of networks' are vulnerable to being hijacked. Once paired, the MouseJack operator can insert keystrokes or malicious code.
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