Tens of millions of bestselling smartphones can easily be hacked by criminals using a £120 device that cracks their four-digit passcode.
The Nile River flows blood red in a new image released by the ESA, drawing comparisons to the biblical First Plague, in which the Egyptian waterway was turned to blood. But, the image from Sentinel-3A shows something else entirely, combining radiometer and colour data to map the region's environmental features. The colour indicates the presence of vegetation along the river as it cuts through the surrounding desert.
It's not yet known at what time the flight will occur in Van Horn, Texas, but Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin will attempt a few new manoeuvres with this launch.
A recent survey from CareerBuilder reveals that the 58 per cent of workers in the US say they feel sleep deprived, and it's caused many to become less productive, and even doze off at work.
The 'Mayak' satellite, designed by Moscow State University, is set to outshine everything in the sky, apart from the sun, thanks to a giant reflective sheet of material.
MIT built a refrigerator sized device that synthesizes 1,000 doses of Benadryl, lidocaine, Valium and Prozac in 24 hours. The team is working on adding more complex drugs to the system.
University of Montreal found that motor skill can improve after watching someone else perform and even more if we know their skill level. This allows you to pick up on errors or imitate good moves.
Masaki Fujimoto, director of international strategy and coordination at Jaxa, made the comments while speaking on a panel about space cooperation at National Academies in Washington.
The video shows a subsidence crater being formed by an underground nuclear explosive in what is thought to be the Nevada Test Site (pictured top), about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. After the bomb is set off, the ground appears to be swallowed at first (pictured top left), before plumes of dust and dirt shoot into the air (top right). This is because the roof of the cavity caused by the explosion collapses, which causes the surface to depress into a sink in an unexpected way.
Samsung is expected to release a phone that folds in two like a book - or the Nintendo DS - and it will go on sale next year, according to the latest rumours.
Over three attempts, it spun its wheels enough times to move 66ft. But because of the steep incline, it only managed 3.5 inches while moving towards the crest of 'Knudsen Ridge.'
Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia analysed the DNA extracted from 92 mummies ('Maiden' pictured) and skeletons from lost American cultures.
Scientists at the Riken centre in Japan have found a way to grow complex skin cells, complete with hair, and implant them successfully on skin. It could also help burns victims.
After six weeks of streaming exclusively on Tidal, the Jay-Z-backed music service, West's latest album has been released to other streaming platforms.
Flyover Country is a mobile app that uses maps and data from geological and paleontological databases to show travelers landmarks on land while they're flying high in the sky.
Like many children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and has now built his own (pictured left and bottom right). His new creation has now been programmed to wink (top right) when he tells her she is cute. Although he has refused to give the name of the actress she is based on, the robot is undeniably similar to Scarlett Johansson (inset).
Samsung is expected to release a phone that folds in two like a book - or the Nintendo DS - and it will go on sale next year, according to the latest rumours.
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a Viking settlement on Point Rosee in southern Newfoundland that dates to between 800AD and 1300AD (archaeologist Sarah Parcak and historian Dan Snow pictured at the site top right). The outline of a distinctive longhouse was found at the site and evidence of iron ore processing (rock blackened by the extreme heat pictured left) was also found there. It is the second Viking site to be discovered in Newfoundland and suggests they were the first Europeans to set foot in the New World by several centuries. Experts say the discovery is opening a 'new chapter' in American history. The researchers first identified the new settlement by looking for distinct patterns left in the vegetation by the buildings in satellite imagery (pictured bottom right).
Egypt's archaeologists announced Friday they completed more extensive scanning of the two recently discovered hidden chambers in the tomb.
Psychologists at the University of Essex say the fear of closely packed holes (pictured) can trigger symptoms such as itchiness, nausea, a racing heart or trouble catching breath.
Using the Australian Synchrotron, researcher from Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has determined atomic structure of material under conditions similar to Titan.
Juicero has designed a smart, Wi-Fi connected juice press. Users place pre-packaged raw product in the device, push a button and in seconds will have 8 ounces of healthy green goodness.
By compiling huge health datasets, researchers at the University of East Anglia hope to predict how long people will live (illustrated), and so help them to spend their time, and money, more wisely.
After spotting three coronal holes (pictured) on the sun, weather experts from Exeter-based Met Office have forecast a geomagnetic storm will strike Earth on Saturday.
Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a transparent wood material that could change the way we construct buildings and solar panels.
A prank which saw the California-based search giant introduce a new minion-based joke function to its email (pictured) has left users angry, and the firm has been forced to apologise.
Earlier this week, a fisherman pulled something bizarre from the ocean just off of Cabo, Mexico. The photos reveal a pink and white creature with alien-like eyes and a massively distended belly, spurring speculation across the internet as to what it might be. Local experts have confirmed that the 'alien fish' is actually a swell shark which lacks typical pigmentation.
Apple has updated some of Siri's responses to statements such as 'I was raped,' after a report by the Universities of California and Stanford branded some emergency responses as inadequate.
Users took to social media this week to complain about annoying bugs in iOS 9.3. The Californian firm has now released an update for the problem as part of iOS 9.3.1.
Nasa researchers have teamed up with scientists in Japan to create detailed, 3D snapshots of raindrops and snowflakes from space. This allows for more accurate predictions and improved models.
KU Leuven used half of a ping pong ball to create an illusion of a shrunken finger. The study found that our visual system will complete a structure, regardless if we know its missing.
Bioengineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were able to rewrite the code of bacteria using a simple programming language (illustrated).
An evolutionary scientist at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, claims strange dates are the product of hundreds of years of arranged marriages, because personalities were not valued.
Physicists from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have found a new 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet that has three suns. This could help us understand the way these type of planets form.
Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne created the company on April 1 1976 in a garage in California.
Lincolnshire-based Colin Furze (pictured bottom right) has created a Hollywood-style weapon in his latest video (top right), which sees the British inventor fire molten thermite at targets. Testing the homemade weapon of destruction in a secure site (main), the video shows Furze launching thermite grenades at petrol, fireworks and even into a spinning washing machine, while laughing maniacally.
Alibaba is hosting 1,200 eSports events across 15 cities in China, which will start sometime next month. AliSports World Electronic Sport Games is offering an array of games and about $5.5 million in prizes.
Psychologists at the University of Cambridge, quizzed thousands of people, first giving them a written test to analyse their personalities and then finding out what types of music they prefer.
Boompi is a new dating app that lets women invite friends to eavesdrop on private conversations with potential matches. Women can switch between chats to get the best advice from their girl friends.
The team led by Durham University, found that birds they thought would be suited to the changing conditions 'substantially' outperformed those expected to suffer between 1980 and 2010.
Scientists in Brazil and Germany have discovered a white dwarf with an atmosphere heavy in oxygen for the first time. They say the finding could challenge what we know about how stars evolve.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is starting the system in phases to allow close monitoring. It has started with the portion near the sea to prevent water escaping into the Pacific Ocean.
Astronomers at Columbia University in New York said beaming a powerful laser into the sky could cloak the change in light caused by the Earth passing in front of the sun, and betray our location.
One year after launching its Dash Buttons, Amazon announced the collection of brands now exceeds over 100. The firm added top brands across dozens of retail categories -- including condoms.
Thousands of people have viewed and deliberated over the photo, which has been widely shared along with the question: 'How many threes can you see in this picture?' If your answer is either 15, 19 or 21, you have arrived at the same conclusion as the majority of social networkers. But which answer is correct? There are in fact 19 number threes pictured in the image, but there could be 21 depending on how you interpret the question.
The First Spaces concept, from London design firm Seymourpowell, is aimed at solo passengers or couples who don't want to be bothered or even seen by fellow travellers on a long-haul flight.
Researchers at Utrecht University have shown that the presence of the male sex hormone can scramble communication in the brain, lowering levels of empathy.
Customers in the UK, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan (Daiki Shimizu is pictured), NZ, Puerto Rico, Singapore, and the US can buy the phone today.
Catalina Pimiento and a team from the University of Zurich looked through 200 records of the Carcharocles megladon (illustrated) to solve the mysteries about how its species was wiped out.
Scientists from the China Computer Go team will issue a challenge to AlphaGo by the end of 2016, said attendees at an
event in Beijing.
On Leap Day this year, Dr Sue Black, senior research associate at University College London, was sitting on the sofa when her partner presented her with an encrypted proposal (pictured).
Some early users of Oculus Rift's $599 (£417) consumer version, including Steve Kovash (pictured) have reported it leaving temporary red marks on their faces.
According to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Chronos could additionally lead to safer drones, smarter homes and password-free Wi-Fi.
The car is 20% smaller and half the price of the Model S and can fit five adults 'comfortably'. It was unveiled at an event in LA. The slick design features a continuous pane of glass in the rear roof for 'openness'. Musk said more than 115,000 Model S cars were ordered in the first 24 hours and that deliveries are slated to begin next year.
FoxType is a New York-based Gmail extension that aims to help you 'write in a more polite, friendly tone'. The software checks phrases for warning signs you are being rude. Donald Trump is shown.
The warning comes from US climate scientists who say that previous estimates could drastically underestimate the problem because they fail to incorporate the full effects of break-up of ice sheets.
Archaeologists at the National Museum of Japanese History in Sakura found almost no evidence of violence on 2,500 remains from the prehistoric Jomon culture in Japan.
MailOnline has teamed up with popular science author Brian Clegg to create the ultimate science quiz to test your knowledge of chemistry, physics, astronomy and biology.
Doggy Dub has been created by London-based Dogs Trust, the UK's largest dog welfare charity and features some past and present canine residents (one shown).
Over the past week, Nasa has taken great strides toward deep-space exploration, marking completion of welding on hardware for massive liquid oxygen tank for the Space Launch System.
California based firm, BioPop, has designed a clear sphere that houses thousand of tiny plankton. Just combine the live dinoflagellates with water in the sphere and watch the orb glow a bright blue.
British University lecturer Brian Lobel is holding the workshops in Australia to teach people the ethical way to go about culling your digital contacts.
A video from San Diego-based YouTuber Physics Girl shows that microwaves (pictured) may be prone to leaking small amounts of radiation. By placing an iPhone in a microwave and calling it (inset), the video demonstrates that signals can pass through the oven's protective casing. Microwaves are non-ionising radiation and so don't cause the same mutating effects on DNA as other sources, such as radioactive isotopes.
Dyson now aims to clear the pollutants and allergens from the air we breathe, with a filter system that removes items as small as 0.1 microns - one 750th the width of a human hair - from the air.
Microsoft's Tay was back online today, but just to send its followers the same tweet and talk about drugs. But the firm is unveiling new AIs that they say will assist humans manage tasks via chatting.
UK driving school Young Driver has created a stylish two-seater for children (pictured). It will be on show in Birmingham this week before being launched across the UK in May.
Two male brown snakes were caught entangled with one another in an apparent fight for the love of a nearby female in a video captured by Tim Horton in South Australia on Wednesday.
Sky has shared an exclusive clip with MailOnline that shows Shadow, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier-Collie cross, piloting a plane over Oxfordshire.
CEO Satya Nadella used the firm's Build conference in San Francisco to call for users 'to have more intelligent conversations with their computers.'
TrueNorth can replicate the equivalent of 16 million neurons and 4 billion synapses - yet consumes just 2.5 watts, the energy equivalent of a hearing aid battery.
Gustav Kuhn, senior lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London has explained the science of misdirection and how magic tricks can mess with our minds. Stock image.
The Navy hopes the 'sea hunter' will end the growing threat of quiet, diesel powered enemy submarines entering American waters undetected. The ACTUV technology demonstration vessel was tested in Portland, where it reached a top speed of 27 knots (31 mph/50 kph).
EXCLUSIVE: Researchers at the University of Durham used forensic analysis of hunting sites used by Neanderthals to provide insights into the tactics used by the early humans to catch prey.
According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, a person's familiarity with an object, in particular with letters of the alphabet, will influence the features they notice.
The fragments of cookware (pictured), known as Cumanae testae or Cumanae patellae, meaning pans from the city of Cumae, were found 12 miles (19km) west of Naples in the ancient city.
Linguists at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have found a link between people who are riled by grammatical errors in written language and certain personality traits. Example shown.
A team of researchers led by the University of Manchester scanned a fossil originally discovered in France to reconstruct what Idmonarachne brasieri would have looked like (pictured).
The study was conducted by research firm Opinion Matters for Kaspersky Lab. It surveyed 6,000 people aged between 16 and 55 across the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Benelux.
African Giant Pouched Rats (stock image) are known for their work sniffing out landmines, and are now developing a reputation in East Africa for their skill and speed at detecting tuberculosis too.
According to the Cairns-based firm behind the helmet, the CycleVision weighs just 280 grams, has two 1080p cameras capturing a 160-degree field of view each.
The instrument of self-torture (pictured left in the box, with a replica in the foreground) was discovered by community archaeologists during a dig underneath the meadow at Rufford Abbey in Nottinghamshire (bottom right) and is one of only four ever to have been found in the UK. The scourge was likely used by repenting monks to chastise themselves as well as warding off the Black Death (illustrated top right).
Scholars have pleaded for Italian authorities to complete excavations at the site of Herculaneum in Italy (pictured), warning that priceless classical texts buried there could be lost forever.
The average 13 to 17-year-old devotes around an hour and 40 minutes a day to social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Experts from Munster said they are 'delighted' to recover fragments of the 'LL Chondritenklasse' class of meteorite. This image shows the meteorite under a polarising microscope.
Earlier this year, hints of a new particle were seen at Fermilab's Tevatron collider in Illinois. But researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (pictured) have so far been unable to find it.
Researchers at De Montfort University in Leicester, looked at the listening habits of around 450 people going through a range of emotional circumstances. Adele is pictured.
The University of Tokyo designed an electric fork, which sends a shock to the taste buds that signal saltiness. As of right now, there are three levels of saltiness available and the device isn't waterproof.
Using Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists from MIT have discovered an 'oddball' planet with a highly eccentric orbit that moves like a comet - the second to be spotted this month.
In his book, 'Fearless Genius', New York-based photographer, Doug Menuez said that getting respect meant being confident, doing your research and finding people's blind spots.
A giant hidden planet is thought to sit on the edge of our solar system (illustrated left) and is 10 times more massive than the Earth, gaseous, and similar to Uranus or Neptune. Now, an astrophysicist from the University of Arkansas believes the mysterious planet could have caused mass extinctions on Earth. As Planet X orbits the sun, its tilted orbit slowly rotates and Planet X passes through the Kuiper belt of comets every 27 million years. This orbit causes comets to be knocked into the inner solar system and could have caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs (pictured inset).
Washington-based scientists at Nasa have released images of a potential frozen lake on Pluto's surface (pictured) suggesting its atmosphere may once have supported bodies of liquid nitrogen.
University of Lille experts revealed people who are successful at self-tickling are more likely to self-report unusual perceptual experiences or feeling like they're under control of an outside force or power.
Users have taken to social media to complain about annoying bugs in the Cupertino-based firm's iOS 9.3, such as their phones crashing after clicking on links in Mail and Safari (app icons shown).
The National Snow and Ice Data Center says ice covered a maximum of 5.607 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean in 2016. That's 5,000 square miles less than the old record set in 2015.
Over the coming months, people on iOS, Android and Windows Phone globally will be able to record and share clips that last 60 seconds. Instagram (pictured) is also bringing back multiple clips on iOS.
A photographer captured a a peculiar translucent creature hiding in the depths of the ocean off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida with its lunch clearly visible inside.
Facebook apologized after the urgent notification was mistakenly sent to people in countries thousands of miles away, sparking fear and confusion online.
According to new research conducted at Columbia University in America, those with a hectic schedule are more likely to complete tasks and bounce back from missed deadlines.
At hundreds of meters below the surface, what happens to a dead body in the deep sea has largely remained a mystery. Now, a study led by Simon Fraser University has investigated the decomposition process as it occurs in the deep, highly oxygenated water of the Strait of Georgia. The researchers found that, while the bones may remain for upwards of six months, a carcass can be reduced the skeleton in under four days due to scavenging.
The California-based social network is rumoured to be rolling out two new features in Messenger (logo pictured), including 'secret conversations' which may be encrypted messages.
We do it almost daily, yet because of the infrequent nature of sneezing, we still know relatively little about it beyond the mechanics according to experts from University College London.
Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institutes of Science and Technology in South Korea have found a quick and cheap way to identify bacteria on the surface of foods in just a few seconds.
Scientists from the University of Manchester stewed a catalyst - made up of a metal complex with small particles of platinum with raw wood sawdust to break down plants without chemicals.
Scientists from Orlando Health, in Florida, discovered that a biomarker released during head injuries remains in the bloodstream for seven days - and testing for it can cut out need for CT scans.
A 15-minute video that shows 6,000 matchsticks being set alight has the internet mesmerised, with the YouTube clip racking up more than six million views since it was published on March 14.
British journalist and author Robert Colvile has explained our 'insatiable' desire' for speed and convenience in his upcoming book 'The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster.'
For the first time, researchers from Kyoto University and colleagues, carried out an investigation into the noses in non-human hominoids.
The first designs of the Roborace autonomous race car have been revealed - and later this year, they will begin competing against each other in cities around the world. Ten teams, each with two driverless cars, will compete in one-hour races over the full championship season. All the teams will have the same cars, but will create their own real-time computing algorithms and AI technologies.
A group of scientists based at Nasa Ames Research Centre in California has outlined proposals for new low cost solutions for building a permanent base on the Moon to house 10 people by 2022.
UFOlogist are now wondering if Russian President Vladimir Putin gets advice from aliens. A video shows what looks like a glowing triangle formation hovering above St. Petersburg.
A group of researchers University of California, Berkeley found people are rated more attractive in online profiles when they take a wide stance, compared to those who cross their arms and legs.
A pod of harbour seals has been fitted with tags (pictured) containing similar technology to smartphones in a bid to solve the enigma of why their numbers are declining around Scotland.
A researcher from the University of Kent believes the conflict has as much to do with culture, family, moral positions and political loyalties as it has to do with the truth. Stock image.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the artificial intelligence system piloting a self-driving Google car could be considered the driver under federal law.
An unusual fish from Thailand can walk and climb up rocks in a waterfall, similarly to a salamander, according to researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Texting makes you feel 'emotionally removed' from your spouse, making it easier to leave them without talking it out with them first, says a family law expert.
Fresh excavations at the Liang Bua cave (main pictured) on the remote Indonesian island of Flores have shown the diminutive human species (skull inset top left) died out 50,000 years ago rather than 12,000 years ago as previously thought. It suggests the tiny Homo floresiensis (artist's impression right), which stood a little over 3ft tall, did not live alongside our own species Homo sapiens as has previously been suggested. Instead they may have died out, much like the Neanderthals, within a few thousand years after modern humans arrived on their island.
The structural remains (pictured) were uncovered on the land off the North banks of the River Clyde, at the confluence of the River Kelvin.
Scientists at the University of Rovira Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, say cannibalism played a 'major role' in the demise of the Neanderthals as they resorted to it to survive food shortages.
The terms of the deal have not been revealed, but a unnamed source said that it was a mixture of cash and stock. Canada-based Bitstrips is available on iOS (pictured), Android and on Chrome.
Scientists at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas say the discover that the moon's tilt changed three billion years ago may help to explain why the moon has less water than expected.
Paleontologists in Kenya found fossilised teeth and forearm bone of Australopithecus afarensis, revealing the species roamed much further than previously thought.
YouTube Connect, a rumoured live video app from the Californian company, would give viewers a new way to watch stars like Zoella (pictured).
Nasa engineers in Maryland got a little closer to launch with the completion of testing on its science cameras and the installation of the final flight mirrors.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found the bug and demonstrated it's possible to obtain photos and videos from iMessage.
New scientific data has led the SETI Institute in California to believe systems orbiting red dwarfs - dim, long-lived stars that are billions of years older than our sun - are worth investigating. 'This may be one instance in which older is better,' said astronomer Seth Shostak of California-based SETI, a private, non-profit organisation. 'Older solar systems have had more time to produce intelligent species.' The two-year project involves picking from a list of about 70,000 red dwarfs and scanning 20,000 of the nearest ones, along with the cosmic bodies that circle them. To do this, scientists will use the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in northern California (inset).
Radar scans of the tomb in the ancient necropolis of Luxor have revealed two possible chambers and they're likely to contain 'organic material', Egypt's antiquities minister said.
Dozens of rock-cut tombs and a small shrine have been found in Gebel el- Silsila area in Aswan, Egypt, containing human remains as well as a seal ring and other artefacts.
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Notre Dame used the gravitational microlensing method to detect a gas giant exoplanet similar to Saturn (shown) orbiting a star.
Elasmotheriusm sibiricum was thought to have died out 350,000 years ago but a fossil discovered in Pavlodar Priirtysh, Kazakhstan suggests they may have survived there until 26,000 years ago.
Nike has unveiled the HyperAdapt 1.0, which automatically tighten when the wearer's heel hits a sensor. And, they will be available to Nike+ members later this year.
Scientists from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre compiled and analysed a database of 203 human viruses to identify the key biological factors that determine their spread.
Scientists at Stanford University in California have pinpointed the set of brain cells involved in making risky decisions, and have been able to control them in rats, using targeted light.
Researchers from the University of Chicago have found people with Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) and twice as likely to have toxoplasma gondii (pictured) in their brains.
With almost an entire continent between them, two amateur astronomers happened to be looking to the sky at just the right time. On March 17, a Reddit user in Austria captured the moment Jupiter is slammed into by what appears to be an asteroid or comet. The post also revealed that a second amateur astronomer in Ireland had simultaneously filmed the same encounter, confirming the impact.
The report originally said: 'The government is funding Dyson to develop a new Battery Electric Vehicle.' This reference has since been removed. James Dyson is pictured.
Images leaked on Reddit this week took the internet by storm - but have been revealed as fake. The reddit user behind the hoax has even posted a video revealing how he did it.
Around the world, people are beginning to turn their backs on religion. A new study reveals the US is no longer the exception; with each passing generation, Americans too are steadily becoming less religious.
A paper by a former Nasa scientist warns that we are provoking an abrupt climate shift. It will cause killer storms and ice caps to melt, which will drown our coastal cities by the end of the century.
According to Bloomberg, the firm has decided to sell the robot firm, with talks already underway with both Toyota and Amazon.
Neuroscientists at Duke University in North Carolina created neuroprothesis that converted infrared light into electrical signals that connected to the brains of rats using electrodes.
Researchers at Cape Western Reserve University, Ohio have argued the conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains.
The University of Oslo team built the large unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), dubbed the Megakopter. It contains 13 propellers and eight hexacopters powered by a total of 48 motors.
Researchers believe there is a 90 per cent chance King Tutankhamun's tomb contains at least one, if not two, hidden chambers. If it's confirmed, it could be one of the most important archaeological discoveries this century. But Lawrence Conyers, a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver says the strange geology of the Valley of the Kings, which has natural voids, may be fooling science. Experts are calling for more data to be released from the recent scans. The location of the hidden chambers is highlighted in the interior of the tomb pictured bottom left. The proposed layout of the chambers are pictured left in blue. The original chamber is pictured top right with the suspected location of the other two right and bottom.
A super stealth ship called Ghost was developed by US-based Juliet Marine Systems, founded by entrepeneur Greg Sancoff. It uses a supercavitation effect to reduce the ship's drag.
Matthew Davidson, PhD Candidate in the neuroscience of consciousness at Monash University has explained what the Phi theory is, and why it is significant. A stock image is pictured.
Florida-based organisation PawsLikeMe (pictured) already offers a dog matchmaking service and is now raising funds to make a version for cats looking for new homes a reality.
Pioneering X-ray imaging has allowed scientists to examine the ink contained within the charred scrolls discovered in the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, near Naples in Italy.
Scientists in Singapore found a key protein in the brain, myelin, which insulates the brain's wiring, is more severely damaged women with Alzheimer's than men - raising hopes of new drug treatments.
China's newest spy plane is suited up for the cyber-battlefield. The CSA-003 'Scout' can collect enemy intelligence and locate vulnerabilities from the sky to facilitate cyber-attacks.
On its 10th birthday, the San Francisco-based social network has 320 million users including celebrities such as Katy Perry (pictured), who is the most followed person in the world.
Researchers in the US are designing a new wind turbine that will reach 1,574 feet (479 metres) into the sky - 100 feet (30 metres) taller than the Empire State Building.
Nasa has plans to land humans on Mars in the 2030s. But, in virtual reality, it's hoping to bring the red planet to the masses long before then. The space agency has teamed up with Microsoft to use its Hololens headset in a new 'mixed reality' exhibition of Mars. The exhibition, dubbed 'Destination: Mars', will offer a tour of an area of Mars with astronaut Buzz Aldrin (left). It will open at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida this summer.
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London, have found that more experienced bees frequently attacked newcomers and tried to evict them from flowers.
The flying robot uses two spindly daddy long legs-style limbs to pull itself up walls and surfaces, and was developed and built at Stanford University's Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab.
Scientists from ETH Zurich in Switzerland encapsulated data in a synthetic 'fossil' shell made from a microscopic silica glass particle with diameter of roughly 150 nanometers.
A new study from Duke University has found that the unrealistic portrayal of income inequalities in popular children's movies, including titles from Disney and Pixar, is potentially harmful to young viewers.
A monstrous-looking sea creature that experts are unable to identify has washed up on a tourist beach in Mexico.
Scientists at MIT analysed more than a billion journeys record by mobile phones during morning rush hours in five cities around the world and found selfish drivers make commutes longer.
Archaeologists in Florence have discovered what may be a rare sacred text in the Etruscan language that is likely to provide insight into the Etruscan worship of a god or goddess. The lengthy text is inscribed on a large 6th century BC sandstone slab (pictured left) that was uncovered from an Etruscan temple, found in Italy (location pictured bottom right). It has at least 70 legible letters and punctuation marks (pictured top right) and is likely to contain words in the lost language that have never been seen before.
The stunning image, taken using the Alma telescope in Chile, shows the 10 million year-old star TW Hydra which is located relatively close to us at 175 light-years away.
Rresearchers from CNRS and Université Blaise Pascal have proposed a new theory that the moon's gravitational pull on the Earth is responsible for the magnetic field.
Synthetic street drugs can contain a 'dark combination of compounds,' a video from the American Chemical Society explains, making them extremely harmful to the user.
WARNING VERY GRAPHIC CONTENT: The Doctors looked at the most disgusting cases Dr Sandra Lee has taken on, including a slow-groing fatty lump, a scalp cyst the size of an egg, and a huge cyst on a woman's leg.
An ancient virus may play an important role in determining the sex of your baby. Yale University researchers discovered that a modification can disable a virus to influence chromosome activity.
Scientists have unveiled an upgraded version of the gorilla genome based on DNA from Susie (pictured), an 11-year-old Western lowland gorilla at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio.
Researchers at the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan discovered two circuits in a structure called the habenula while studying the behaviour of fighting zebrafish.
Japan's space agency has been trying to communicate with the X-ray Astronomy Satellite 'Hitomi' (Astro-H), using ground stations both in Japan and overseas.
Purdue University experts found importnat structural differences on a key protein in the Zika virus molecule, which may explain why it attacks nerve cells while similar viruses do not.
Robotic systems and unmanned vehicles are playing an ever-growing role in the US military -- but don't expect to see Terminator-style droids striding across ...
Microsoft's CaptionBot analyzes pictures and write captions on what it 'sees'. Using computer vision and natural language, it can work out gender, celebrities and facial expressions.
Scientists suspect the stressful environment of the ISS could trigger changes in physiological responses of fungus called Aspergillus nidulans.
Researchers at the University of California Davis looked at data from a massive online survey, examining personality and demographic information from 543,934 people across the US.
Poor markings and uneven signage are forcing automakers
to develop more sophisticated sensors and maps to compensate,
industry executives say.
Americans with traditional black names such as Elijah and Moses are likely to outlive their counterparts, according to research by Michigan State University. Many of the names are Biblical.
Scientists at the University of Cork have been able to see the shapes of individual cells in the snake's skin, after it was preserved for millions of years.
The team led by the University of Edinburgh found that the process of actively wiping memories happens when brain cells remove certain receptors from the connections between brain cells.
The Facebook founder said his aim is to 'create a world where understanding and empathy can spread faster than hate' after attacks in Ankara, Brussels and Lahore this month.
Hair from 10 astronauts was collected while they were on the International Space Station before being analysed by scientists based at Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The possibility of a nuclear-armed ISIS may not be as far-off as many experts suggest, a Harvard researcher has warned in recent report for Project on Managing the Atom from Harvard's Belfer Center.
Experts from Rome and San Diego have been given permission to examine the residents of a coastal hamlet called Acciaroli, near Salerno, home to more than 300 people aged over 100.
The National Museum of Natural History in Washington has provided a rare glimpse at its vast and spectacular backroom collections, which never make public displays.
Russian scientists say they have a technique for creating a telescope that can see these planets directly - and they say it may even help us find Earth's twin.
The image, which appears to have been produced as a poster, has recently resurfaced online. On closer inspection, the felines can be seen hiding in the bushes, bark and even the sky.
Honda and Hitachi in Japan have developed the prototype device (pictured), capable of detecting saturated water vapour from human breath and measures alcohol levels within seconds.
Researchers from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin made a model of a crater to prove winds whittled the landmarks on Mars.
A team of Nevada scientists used a DAx8 eight-rotor drone to spracy fine particles of silver iodide into a cloud system in an effort to boost the amount of rain that falls.
Physicits at Glasgow University have taken technology used in phones and adapted it to make a small sensitive device capable of measuring tiny changes in the Earth's gravity.
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have pinpointed a mechanism by which tidal stresses from Saturn can drive Enceladus' long-lived 'tiger stripe' (pictured) eruptions.
Nurx, available in New York and California, offers three-monthly supplies of pills as well as the patch, the ring, and emergency contraception brands Ella and Plan B - free with insurance or $15 without.
A video by Microsoft Research shows how the $3000 augmented reality system can be used to transmit 3D models of people anywhere in the world.
The new service will be available to customers in US cities who are currently being offered Google Fiber, including Kansas City, Atlanta and Austin.
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny molecular robots (pictured) that could help to extend the life of delicate circuits and wearable technology.
The wrecks, which include a Corsair fighter bomber (pictured), are from Operation Desecrate One, a US attack against the Japanese naval and air bases in Palau that took place in March 1944.
The calls of European bats (pictured is a common noctule bat) were recorded by a number of researchers across Europe and uploaded to the German-based site batcalls.com.
The new high-resolution simulations, created by a team led by Hideyuki Hotta at Chiba University in Japan, reveal how the movement of plasma can lead to changes in the sun's magnetic field.
Engineers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have controlled how giant flower beetles walk and fly by inserting electrodes into their muscles to stimulate their movement.
When sending messages, you can add certain characters before and after the words or sentences to make them go bold, italic or crossed out, known as a strikethrough (examples shown).
Our increasing reliance on satellite navigation is coming at a cost and is harming our own ability to navigate, said satellite navigation consultant Roger McKinlay based in Leatherhead, UK.
Basingstoke-based De La Rue, the company that prints the British passport and banknotes, has announced it is developing new paperless passports for when travelling.
Geneticists at Harvard medical School found Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA is surprisingly widespread in modern non-African human populations around the world.
Researchers from University of St Andrews made the discovery after recording the calls of individual bonobos (pictured) and playing them to those they had known years before.
The researchers from Catholic University of Portugal argue their, rather obvious, findings offer useful guidance beyond doing the weekly shopping and forgetting to buy a bunch of bananas.
Yesterday, Microsoft launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) bot. Within hours, the AI chatbot was responding to certain questions from Twitter users with racist answers.
Three styrofoam cups dissolve in the powerful acetone solution within a matter of seconds in the clip, which has had more than 300,000 views since being uploaded to YouTube.
The team behind the 40ft long Quicksilver superboat hope to test their vessel on Loch Ness in the Scottish highlands before attempting to break the current record of 317.58mph.
A UFO hunter claims to have found proof of ancient oceans on Mars. Among the rocks on the Martian surface, the alien enthusiast has spotted what he says is a large petrified fish.
A pottery fragment bearing Christian symbols from Roman Britain has been found among a number of forgotten fragments originally unearthed in the town of Brentford, near London.
The latest challenge baffling the internet is a logic puzzle for children that involves studying a picture of tourists at a holiday camp site and answering a list of nine questions.
Meteorologists may soon be able to predict extreme heat in the Eastern US as much as 50 days in advance, according to a new study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. (file photo)
Snapchat has just launched a full featured update - Chat 2.0. The release includes hundreds of stickers, easier video controls and options that lets users switch how users chat.
Wayne State University in Michigan surveyed participants about media use, politics and personality, to see how they respond to hold back for fear of isolation from authority.
Dubbed the '40mm Cased Telescoped Cannon', it is the first system of its kind to be produced for Ministry of Defence in Britain for 50 years. It will be installed on British Army Ajax and Warrior armored vehicles.
Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany created the map by revisiting data collected by Rosat satellite.
The 17 foot long concept car comes with gull wing doors and huge seats - with an option for a clothes carrying area. It also boast screens at every seat an an internal videoconferencing system.
While the name 'Judas' may be synonymous with the most heinous of traitors, Katie Edwards from the University of Sheffield suggests it may be time to re-address the claims.
Experts at Ramsay Health Care UK advise when stools are healthy - and when to visit a doctor. Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer, with 1.4 million new cases diagnosed each year.
In the text inscribed on the ancient tablet from Babylonia, 'Nanni' complains to a merchant about receiving the wrong grade of copper ore that's arrived late and is slightly damaged.
Ohio State University used students' faces to find an expression used among different cultures to convey negative emotion. Called 'not face', it consists of a furrowed brow, pressed lips and raised chin.
Geologists have found that the cliff faces of Yosemite National Park are being eroded by massive rock falls caused by heating due to sunlight, which causes fractures to open up and detach.
The 'Galaxy S7 Active' was spotted in the latest update to the Samsung Level app. Sources are saying it could have military-grade water but it will only be available in the US.
The airline tycoon has confirmed that Virgin has options to buy 10 of the recently revealed supersonic Boom jets, which are being built in Colorado and can reach over 1,400mph.
A study led by the University of California, Davis, has revealed one bacteria aboard the ISS - Bacillus safensis JPL-MERTA-8-2 (pictured) - grew better than in control conditions on Earth.
Researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia found that asking people to touch a rough surface, such as sandpaper, can make them more empathetic and more likely to donate money.
London-based games company, MrGamez.com created the tool that shows whether sets of lucky numbers have ever hit the jackpot as well as showing the most drawn numbers of all time, aren't that lucky.
Paul Stevens, 39, caught an incredible 83lb cod in the sea off the coast of Norway - but then his friend Bert Williams, 71, trumped his effort by catching a 93lb beast the following day.
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the first Rift (pictured) to software developer Ross Martin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday.
The 302ft (92m) long Airlander 10 (pictured) - part plane, part airship - was floated in a First World War hangar in Bedfordshire. The craft's motors and fins are pictured.
On this Easter weekend, we asked leading thinkers to explain what the results of this new study tell us about the modern world, and what they believe about the afterlife.
Psychologists at Ohio State University found regular viewers of reality TV shows (Keeping up with the Kardashians pictured) had higher narcissism than those who preferred the news.
Aaron Rodgers said he'd been staying with former California Golden Bears teammate, Steve Levy at his family's New Jersey home in February, 2005 when they spotted an alien aircraft.
The more time young adults use social media, the more likely they are to be depressed, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Judging food as OK to eat if it only touches the floor momentarily is misguided, says Dr Lisa Ackerely, of Salford University. Bugs like E. coli and Salmonella
on the floor can stick to foods in an instant.
Scientists, including some at the University of East Anglia, are searching for new antibiotics, cancer drugs and other potential medicines in the natural world using a process known as bioprospecting.
The report, commissioned by ADT, headquartered in Manchester, predicts technology from security drones to guns shooting indelible liquid at thieves, as well as more sensible identification technology.
Russian experts have revealed test videos of the unmanned mini tank bot that stands just a few feet taller than a human. Uran-9 has a machine gun, missiles and a 30-mm cannon.
Pornhub is offering its members a virtual reality category that allows them to experience 360-degree adult content. Users will not only be 'in' the films, but will be able to interact with their favorite stars.
New research at Cairo University reveals Pharaoh Ramesses III was assassinated by multiple assailants at once. His throat was slit and big toe cut off.
The Federal Aviation Administration released a report that shows there were about 600 near-miss incidents in the US between drones and piloted aircraft from August 2015 to January 2016.
The Master Lock, from the Wisconsin-based firm, is unlocked by an app and homeowners can give delivery drivers time-limited access to the lock when dropping off or picking up parcels.
Seemingly overnight, social media has erupted with Instagram users asking their followers to 'turn on' their notifications, so others will be alerted when they share a post.
Assembling the complex array of mechanical parts and electronic circuits is due to begin at the UK headquarters of Airbus Defence & Space in Stevenage later this year.
A collection of 83 meteorites will go on sale at Christies in London next month, including a half-tonne dome valued at £800,000 and a fragment of the rock that exploded over Russia (pictured).
Airbus has filed a patent for a multi-engine design that could improve propulsive efficiency. Instead of two massive engines under the wings, there engine nacelles that wraparound the plane.
A geneticist at Stanford University in California has claimed that parents will be able to select disease free embryos with the traits they want using new genetic techniques and eggs grown from skin.
Recruiter Impact Interview agency compiled the 140 questions that candidates have reported being asked at interviews for roles at the tech giant - many of which have been dropped from the process.
Scientists based at the J. Craig Venter Institute in California have created a new artificial bacterial cell nicknamed Synthia 3.0 by stripping down the Mycoplasma bacterial genome to just 473 genes.
The FBI says it has successfully unlocked San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook's iPhone without Apple's help, ending the court battle between the tech giants and the Justice Department.
Professor Michael Weigold from the University of Florida claims the craze for selfies is doing more harm than good - impacting people's mental health and making them take unnecessary risks.
Head of the European Space Agency, Johann-Dietrich Woerner has revealed ideas for an international 'Moon Village' that combines the capabilities of space-faring nations around the world.
Astronomers using the Arceibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico (pictured) have for the first time detected short bursts of powerful radio waves repeatedly coming from the same source.
A study by the University of Sydney has shown that when looking through photographs in sequence, people are more likely to rate faces as attractive if they thought the face before was attractive.
Astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech, one of the scientists behind the January reveal of the mysterious 'Planet Nine', claims he's found further evidence to support it.
Computers have been found to get tripped up by some names, which may be too long for particular online forms to bear, or in the case of 'Null,' the problem lies in the language of programming.
Ideal Concept designed a double barreled, .380 caliber pistol that folds down into what appears to be a smartphone. When the safety is shut off, it swings open into a loaded weapon.
The origins of the buckle (pictured) initially proved mysterious to Ernst Stidsing of the Museum of East Jutland in Denmark, but experts now think it originally came from Scotland or Ireland.
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or Beam, will be the first inflatable habitat to ever be attached to the ISS. It has been designed by Bigelow Aerospace, in Las Vegas.
Google will now provide full-page warning with instructions about how these users can stay safe. The company said it will also be increasing the visibility of other types of Gmail security warnings.
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Massey University in New Zealand have found that genetically engineered maggots can clean non-healing wounds and promote cell growth.
Researchers assessed the frequency and duration of cannabis use (stock image) among participants in the 40-year Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study in New Zealand.
China has plans to build a new space telescope which could outperform Hubble. The the new telescope will be similar to Hubble (pictured), but will have a field of view 300 times larger.
Researchers from the Seti Institute in California used results from Nasa's Cassini mission to study tidal interactions between Saturn and its moons (illustrated) to determine their age.
The icy space rock, dubbed Comet Linear, will emerge from next week and be around 100 times brighter than astronomers had expected. Sky watchers need to be out 1.5 hours before sunrise.
Researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark discovered that, although unlikely, it's not impossible to think our sun (pictured) could produce superflares that would devastate Earth.
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.
Researchers at John Hopkins University have suggested that the two black holes detected by LIGO could be the kind to make up dark matter, which makes up 85 per cent of Universe's mass.
Dennis Fabricius Holm was using his metal detector on an afternoon off from work when he uncovered a Birka crucifix pendant in Aunslev, Østfyn.
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