Understanding more about these super spirals could shed light on how some of the biggest galaxies emerge, according to researchers at Nasa.

The project, being led by the Professor Daniel Inman at the University of Michigan, was recently awarded a $6 million grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

British troops have been testing a Harry Potter-style 'invisibility cloak' that makes them disappear on the battlefield. But even more radical camouflage technologies are now being developed.

Researchers from the University of Hawai'i developed a new approach to study historical carbon levels over the past 66 million years. Stock image pictured.

Scientists at Duke University, North Carolina, developed a technique to watch how hundreds of cells work together to maintain and regenerate skin tissue, using a technicolour zebrafish.

Panasonic unveiled a line of exoskeleton suits for factory workers and sportsmen. One lets you lift heavy objects and the other gives helps you walk extremely long distances without needing a break.

NanoSystems released the blackest material in the world in 2014 and now they made a spray-on form. Vantablack S-VIS traps 99.8% of incoming light and can cover larger complex objects.

The small bird preys on mice, lizards, and other birds. The species can be found in can be found in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

The counties have talked about a 'ground station in the Southern Hemisphere' to support the program for 'moon exploration and other space activities'

Two twin-like emerald comets will fly by the home planet at a safe distance, with the first occurring on Monday March 21, and the second passing by the following day.

Nasa administrator and former astronaut, Charles Bolden, this week told Congress that Nasa was betting on nuclear thermal propulsion to help astronauts reach Mars.

Lockheed Martin, which supplies the stocks for the United States and allies, has had to quadruple production of its Hellfire missile, and is expanding factories to keep up with fight against ISIS.

A trip from San Diego to Tijuana Airport will cost $100. Uber will charge a $20 cross-border fee for each journey, and the entire far can be split between four passengers.

Dubbed HD 20782, astronomers are hoping to learn more about the composition of a planetary atmosphere that can withstand brief but blistering exposure to its star.

To prevent other males from mating with their partners, a type of orb-weaving spider has been observed to mutilate the genitalia of females after sex.

Researchers from Western Sydney University two reasons why AIs are 'our greatest threat. The first being they are trained with logic and heuristics. The other is they will never have empathy.

Researchers have revealed the graphic details of the torture and death of the man known as Eric the Lawgiver, Erik the Saint, and Eric the Holy.

Beverly Hills urologist Dr James Elist developed a new penile implant procedure, in which a soft silicone sheath is inserted under the skin of the penis - immediately boosting length and girth.

Scientists at the University of Surrey have discovered the particles (pictured) in individual layers of paint sort themselves out by size as the liquid evaporates and dries out.

Biologists at Uppsala University in Sweden have measured the speed of the eyes of small birds like blue tits (pictured). Their ultra-fast vision may help them dodge branches and catch insects.

Twitter's algorithm timeline, announced earlier this year, has been changed from an option to part of the service.Users reported seeing tweets out of order as early as March 15 and they aren't happy.

Scientists from University of California, Los Angeles, revealed nice people are hardwired to be altruistic, since they have heightened activity in the brain regions that fuel empathetic responses.

The helium-filled flying machine, known as Skye (pictured), combines the manoeuvrability of a traditional quadcopter with the energy efficiency of a blimp. It was developed by Zurich-based Aerotain.

The latest update to Facebook's Messenger app contains a hidden game that is activated by sending a basketball emoji to a friend in a conversation.

The change, which will be displayed on all new OS digital and paper maps, is not down to a geological movement but is simply due to improvements in technology that allow a more accurate reading.

A photo of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg jogging Friday morning in downtown Beijing's notorious smog has prompted a torrent of amusing comments and some mockery.

Gordon Buchanan presents the three-part series called Tribes, Predators and Me, which first airs on BBC Two at 9pm on Sunday. The first episode is in the Amazon rainforest, Ecuador.

Nottingham-based Hillarys blinds asked 2,465 young people by to rank which everyday items they valued the most. Freedom of speech topped the list, followed by the web and daylight. Stock image.

The Carbon Black (pictured) is manufactured in Bicester, Oxfordshire, which is known as Formula One's Silicon Valley because of the number of teams based in the area.

Former members of Tokyo's metropolitan police department (MPD) came up with the idea of identifying bodies using feet skin patterns after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

Scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany have found that while learning, the brain is actively trying to forget. Stock image.

San Diego-based artist, Concetta Antico (pictured), can discern 100 times more hues than the average person and experts believe this is due to training, as well as her genetic condition.

UK users of the video streaming service pay £7.49 a month for a selection of 3,000 films and TV shows on the standard plan, while in the US it is about £7 ($9.99) a month for 5,600 releases.

Researchers have spotted hyenas and grey wolves hunting together in the Negev desert, southern Israel. They think the tough conditions have driven the animals to pair up to improve their chances.

'Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on Nasa's New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant 'bite mark' on Pluto's surface' the space agency said.

The University of Rochester filtered out 11,000 tweets with alcohol-related words, like 'beer' or 'party' using an AI that can determine if you were drunk and where you sent the tweet.

The world of the small has been brought into focus in stunning detail thanks to a series of macro photographs from a Moscow-based amateur wildlife photographer

A new kind of malware that could attack any iPhone has been discovered by San Francisco-based security company Palo Alto Networks called 'AceDeceiver'.

Tim Peake took the lush-looking photograph of Ireland aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

Psychologists at Temple University in Philadelphia found people who check their phone excessively tend to be more impulsive, choosing instant gratification over greater rewards later.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) made the discovery in the Bible housed in Lambeth Palace Library in London.

Researchers say lack of exaggerated ornamentation in female animals may be one of the many examples of the great lengths females go to avoid sexual harassment from males.

The 'instant dry umbrella,' also known as a 'nunnurella' (pictured) was invented by designer Kazuya Kolke, in Osaka, Japan.

A company in France has developed a speaker that directs the sound so only you can hear - even if there is a crowd of other people in the room. The device guides sound straight to the listener.

A team from the University of Dundee has discovered that a fungus found on mouldy bread is able to transform the manganese into the materials needed for batteries and supercapicitors.

Scientists from New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute, found the stem cells could become other types. A haploid cell with 23 chromosomes is left, a diploid cell with 46 is right.

Scientists at the University of Sussex, investigating how organs scale to the correct size for the body, believe the eyes of ants (pictured) hold the key.

Scientists from the University of Tübingen studied the Neanderthals' diet using remains found at two excavation sites in Belgium. An illustration of a mammoth is pictured.

Researchers at Harvard University claim staring at someone alters the 'perceptual processing of faces' making people look more attractive than on first impressions.

Scientists from Harvard-Smithsonian Center believe the 'weather' around stars plays a crucial role in making planets habitable to life, and protection from it is key to life getting going.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he is fighting the FBI's bid to decrypt a San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone because of his 'country boy' values. He also revealed 'errors' by FBI investigators.

Biologists at the University of East Anglia said that landfill sites enable the birds to nest throughout the year, which is a new behaviour.

The dedicated uberEats app allows deliveries in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Toronto - with Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Seattle, and D.C coming soon.

While studying the brains of mice, researchers from Johns Hopkins University found a particular type of brain cell called the paraventricular nucleus responds to an enzyme that controls hunger.

An international team, led by astronomers from Sheffield University, said the cluster (pictured), 170,000 light years from Earth, is the largest group of very massive stars identified to date.

Steve Chen, speaking at the South by Southwest in Austin to launch his news food video site Nom, said it was conceived on Valentine's day - but five days later, had not attracted a single user.

It may soon be possible to upload the mind of someone who has died to a computer, immortalising their essence in a robot clone, claims a Vermont-based firm. Prototype Bina48 is pictured.

Martin Stevens, an associate professor of sensory and evolutionary ecology at the University of Exeter has revealed some of nature's greatest cheats. The butterfly that mimics an owl is pictured.

Donald Trump's broken speech makes him look like a honest outsider. He uses conversational speech that is new to politics. But researchers says his grammar is that of a 6th grader.

A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals people are less likely to make cost-saving decisions when purchasing sentimental objects for loved ones.

Boeing and a South Africa's Paramount Group firm hope the wacky design - currently used to patrol borders, could become a low cost fighter plane.

Dr Craig Considine, a Professor at Rice University in Texas, said the texts could be viewed 'as a kind of medicine to cure the diseases of Islamic extremism and Islamophobia'.

The map shows the first 10 days of data collected once Jason-3 reached its orbit of 830 miles (1,336km) last month, revealing the state of the ongoing El Niño event that began early last year.

Scientists at Flinders University in Australia have found superb fairywrens and red-backed fairywrens sing to their eggs. The chicks were found to imitate these calls inside the eggs.

At a Senate hearing in Washington, Google's Chris Urmson (right) said a consistent framework is important to implementing those technologies, and conflicting rules could limit innovation.

Stanford University has designed 6 tiny robots that weight a total of 3.5 ounces. Inspired by ants, these tiny robots pulled a 2 ton car by synchronizing their movements.

Fossils of the Tully Monster (illustrated) were first discovered 58 years ago in a coal pit in north east Illinois and left scientists baffled but now scientists have found it is a relative of the lamprey.

Experts say that leftover crusts and crumbs are polluting our waterways - and they are not very healthy for ducks to eat.

Google has revealed that its self driving car hit a bus because it made an incorrect assumption about where it would go.

A highly secretive Pentagon organization is experimenting with 'micro-drones' which could one day take to the sky like a like a swarm of robotic locusts.

Users in the UK, US, Spain and Brazil will soon see options from Uber (screenshot), Hailo and Gett as part of the Google Maps feature, which will allow them to hail a cab without swapping apps.

The World Happiness Report has named Denmark the happiest country in the world after assessing a range of factors including health, job security and political stability.

From the positions of the 274 M dwarfs in their sample, students at Leiden University in the Netherlands used a computer model that inferred the existence of 58 billion dwarf stars.

The Sahara Forest Project (SFP) will build a $30 million 'farm' over 10 hectares in Tunisia in a bid to diversify the predominantly desert environment and create jobs and food.

Susumu Tonegawa from MIT and his colleagues studied three different types of mice that were all failing long term memory tests. This image shows a single memory cell in green.

Scientists have analysed dam building across the nine countries that span Amazonia in South America and warn that 'countless' species could be wiped out when they are complete.

The researchers, from Ruhr University, Germany, claim their test can identify the proteins involved with the disease as they seep into the bloodstream.

The cars aren't yet able to handle bad weather, including standing water, drizzle, sudden downpours and snow, Missy Cummings, of Duke University told a Senate committee.

Nasa says a series of Saffire tests, in which a large fire will be lit in space, will happen after a Cygnus resupply vehicle undocks from the ISS and moves to a "safe distance" on March 22.

Engineers at the University of Washington have developed technology that uses the built-in microphones and speakers of a mobile or smartwatch to track the movement of a finger.

Darpa says it will provide up to $130,000 in funding to develop prototypes for individual projects that will reveal hidden threats from everyday items.

Last summer, a 62-year-old Dennis Anselmo of Morinville, Alberta claims his Apple Watch helped save his life. Now Apple has filed a patent to allow its device to call 911 in case of an emergency.

The $399 headset will go on sale in October, the firm said at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It works in tandem with the PlayStation 4 console.

The plantation, Europe's first, is designed to protect the trees' genetics for future generations. The first sapling to be planted was propagated from the Fieldwood stump, a 3,500-year-old redwood.

Researchers designed a technique that maps out the connections between objects on the page to evaluate the best loading course. Polaris aims to decrease page load-times by 34 percent.

Scientists from the University of Georgi say that floods caused by rising sea-level could affect over 13 million people living in coastal areas in southern US, causing mass migration

The latest leak from nowhereelse.fr shows a case with no headphone socket, but in their place stereo speakers.

Encryption shields 77% of the requests sent from around the world to Google's data centers, up from 52% at the end of 2013, according to company statistics.

Nanoscopic 3D imaging has revealed how different bacteria have different tiny propeller motors. Experts say they could lead to new treatments that attack the motors.

The virtual globes includes visual depictions of a high-resolution global digital elevation model, the global gravity and magnetic field as well as seabed geology.

Researchers led by Justin Hubert at Bard College in New York looked at memory recall in 381 people during a number of experiments.

Researchers at Stony Brook University recently conducted simulations on the ability of the small, tooth-like denticles that make up the skin of shortfin mako sharks (stock image).

Researchers from Edinburgh's Napier, Exeter and Liverpool John Moores have shown that teams of mongooses go through days of fighting, or 'civil wars' to evict their weakest members.

Humans have been domesticating dogs before they learned how to farm. But with our obsession to create a perfect breed, they are almost unrecognizable from their early ancestors.

The British Royal Navy will be holding a demonstration of unmanned technology off the coast of Scotland this autumn. The machines will compete in their very own version of 'robot wars'.

Maree McCabe, boss of Alzheimer's Australia Vic created the 'Dementia-Friendly Home' app which comes up with ideas for carers to make their homes more accessible for those with dementia.

The site said that users globally will begin to notice the new feed in the coming months, but has yet to reveal how its algorithm chooses the images it think you care about most.

SquareTrade found Samsung's phones are water resistant, but not waterproof as the firm claims. However it sounds their screens were far less durable than Apple's latest iPhones.

The 500-year-old wreckage (pictured) of a Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of explorer Vasco da Gamma has been found off the coast of Oman.

AlphaGo was given an honourary 'ninth dan' professional ranking, equivalent to that held by Lee Sedol who has 18 international titles to his name, following the match in Seoul. Board is pictured.

Dr Adam Lippert, a researcher at University of Colorado Denver, looked at records of more than 12,000 people from a long-term study looking at the health of adolescents in the US.

In a recent press conference in Germany, software firm Trend Micro demonstrated how a large, neon-pink vibrator could be switched on remotely by typing out a few lines of code.

Researchers at Jagiellonian University in Poland taught sighted volunteers Braille to find it activated the visual cortex, as well as the tactile one (pictured in the scan) as they expected.

Dr. Sandra Lee, a dermatologist at the Skin Physicians & Surgeons practice in Upland, California, has a cult-like following of more than 900,000 YouTube subscribers.

Students created, Scorpion Hexapod, a 3D-printed robotic scorpion that is designed with natural movements and responds to interactions. Its tail will also attack and leave a mark on its prey.

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) - a branch of the Department of Energy - says the technology could transform the US electrical grid within five to 10 years.

The grave in Tombos, a region in what is now northern Sudan, has revealed the blending of cultures that emerged when a colonizing power and indigenous people came together.

With the help of slow-motion videos, researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have challenged the myth that vipers have the speediest strike.

Michigan State University created a model to show black holes in late stages. The team predicted information entered and left the black hole, saying it leaks out, instead of being destroyed.

US sex expert Dr Emily Nagoski claims women only experience sexual desire in response to gradual pleasure - not as a sudden 'lightning bolt to the genitals' as with men.