A pair of astrophysicists from the University of Bern have created a detailed model of Planet 9 - even though we don't now if it really exists.
Six gigantic icy fractures converge onto a point near the centre of the strange structure. The longest of the 'legs' is named Sleipnir Fossa, and is more than 360 miles (580 kilometers) long. Curiously, the spider's 'legs' noticeably expose red deposits below Pluto's surface.
Korea University studied how narcissism relates to a person's selfie-posting behavior. They found narcissists see selfies as a positive thing and observes others for self-comparison.
Researchers at Duke University have now uncovered the mechanism that activates regeneration genes in zebrafish. The 'enhancer elements' could be used to help mammals regrow body parts.
Facebook has been hiding message in a secret inbox it deemed as spam - messages from users you may not know. To view these message, just open up the Messenger app and go to settings.
Facebook has launched new features to help its 900 million Messenger users chat. Users will soon have access to scannable codes, usersnames and links that open up threads in the app.
Most computer simulations of climate change are underestimating by at least one degree how warm the world will get this century, a new study suggests.
Scientists at the Institut de Chimie de Nice, France have demonstrated for the first time that ribose, the backbone of genetic material, forms in the ice on comets.
The images were captured by Jadon Beeson, 20, from Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire, as he watched the live stream from the ISS on his phone. Beeson, sent the images to the agency for their take. From the images (pictured), the object looks to be cigar-shaped, with a blue-ish hue on one end which matches the upper atmosphere, and looks to have a band in the middle of the object.
A new software called FireAnt can block out the 'noise' of millions of online messages to reveal specific kinds of content, and collect it for analysis. This can help identify abusive online behaviour.
The 52-year-old recently signed a deal with Alfred A. Knopf for 'Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars,' which will be released globally in November 2017.
A study conducted by sociologists from Tarragona, Spain showed young men and women behave very differently on the internet. Men are more direct compared to their female counterparts.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. California-based Dr Sandra Lee, known as Dr Pimple Popper, is seen dragging her metal tool over the spots, which then ooze out their disgusting contents.
In a blog post announcing the figure, the car firm claimed it was 'the week electric cars went mainstream.' The preorders would correspond to $14 billion in implied future sales.
The invention, dubbed a 'configurable, force-sensitive input structure for an electronic device,' looks similar to Apple's 'Force Touch' trackpads, which use haptic technology.
Controversial archaeologist Semir Osmanagic (pictured) discovered the 'stone ball' (also shown main and inset) in a forest at Podubravlje, near the town Zavidovici in central Bosnia and Herzegovina and said it is the heaviest man-made ball in the world. It has a radius of between four and five feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres) and weighs 30 tonnes.
Nasa's Neowise mission has just released a new batch of data, and says its identified 72 new near Earth objects (shown in green), bringing the total number to 439. NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational pull of the giant planets in our solar system into orbits that allow them to enter Earth's neighbourhood. The orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars are in blue and Earth's orbit is in teal. Eight of the objects discovered in the past year have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), based on their size and how closely their orbits approach Earth.
Psychologists at the University of Oxford have found that choosing to sacrifice the life of one innocent person rather than five impacts on how trustworthy you are with other people.
The code was spotted by Brent Dirks from AppAdvice and was found in the metadata of iTunes shows reference to 'isFirstPartyHideableApp'. A selection of native apps is shown.
Researchers from Stanford University and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany analysed the Neanderthal Y chromosome for the first time.
The study from University College London shows that male and female flies live longer than average when given low doses of lithium (stock image), regardless of their genetic make-up.
MailOnline Travel reveals why mobile phones must be switched to flight mode on most planes and what happens when passengers or crew don't follow the rules.
A skull kept in a museum in Edinburgh has been analysed using 3D digital modelling, revealing the person had been killed by a musket ball passing through the top of their head from 147ft away.
Entomologist Dr Hannah Wood at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC used a high speed video camera to capture the attack made by trap door spiders (shown).
A team at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, has observed a brown dwarf and determined its mass, age and composition after 18 years of measurements.
Dubbed the 'digitally transformable sofa,' Lift-bit is a series of hexagonal stools that fit together honeycomb-style and allows you to create a number of combinations. International design firm, Carlo Ratti Associates collaborated with the Swiss furniture, Vitra, in making the sofa. Powered through a tablet app and simple hand gestures, the stools shift their height around in matter of seconds to transform into whatever piece of furniture you need. Lift-Bit is available in four different colors and can be pre-ordered for $1,250.
The research was commissioned by Bromley-based Privilege Home Insurance. More than half of adults also confessed to checking up on old friends, colleagues and exes. Stock image.
The California-based site said the tool, which has been expanded from private message blocking to entire user blocking, allows people to block those that reply in comments.
Neuroscientists at the University of Oxford have shown that over time memories can become silenced by a type of inhibitory connection between neurons in the brain. Stock image shown.
Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, recorded the noises made by masked birch caterpillars (pictured) scraping their bottoms against leaves.
The software can be used by pilots to superimpose information onto pilots' screens as they circle above areas, which include one San Bernardino mosque after the shooting last year.
Between 20 and 50 tigers were believed to exist in Cambodia's forests, but years of illegal poaching - of the tigers as well as their prey - led to a dramatic decline in their population.
ISIS levelled the fifth century St Elian monastery and church in al-Qaryatain in August 2015 using explosives and bulldozers, as they have done with shrines and other religious buildings elsewhere.
The Zeiss camera lens, which was used by astronaut Dave Scott to take photos of the moon while the spacecraft was in orbit and on the surface, is going up for sale in New Hampshire.
Built for Esa by GomSpace in Denmark, the GomX-3 cubesat is testing new radio technology for tracking civil aircraft in previously inaccessible regions of the world. GomX-3's distinctive helical antenna has detected millions of signals from aircraft, building a detailed map of global aviation traffic. These signals are regularly broadcast from aircraft, giving flight information such as speed, position and altitude.
The University of Texas created a 12-point scale to learn what makes a drama queen. People exhibit the dark-triad, gossiping, neuroticism and external locus of control, along with impulsiveness.
The planet, dubbed 2MASS J1119-1137, is thought to is between four and eight times the mass of Jupiter and resides in our solar neighborhood, around 95 light years from Earth
More than a dozen self-driving trucks (pictured) made by six of Europe's largest manufacturers arrived in Rotterdam in so-called 'truck platoons'.
A ground-breaking research project from Sweden's Karolinska Institute is seeking to see if the use of Degarelix (stock image) could be used as preventative treatments for men with paedophilia.
A French company called Thales has developed massive LCD touchscreen displays called 'Digital Sky' built into the backs of economy seats. It was unveiled at the Aircraft Interiors Expo this week.
The video shows a subsidence crater being formed by an underground nuclear explosive in what is thought to be the Nevada Test Site, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.
Moleskine's 'smart writing set' (pictured) includes a camera-enabled pen and paper tablet capable of digitising notes and sketches.
US YouTuber Wermy has created a detailed walkthrough of the steps to create a customised Gameboy emulator (pictured), powered by a Raspberry Pi, which may inspire you to get hacking.
In January, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of Caltech predicted the existence of what they dubbed Planet Nine (artist's concept pictured). Since then a team in France has used data from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft (pictured inset) to narrow down the search, and some experts say the planet could be found within the year. The Dark Energy Survey is a Southern Hemisphere observation project designed to probe the acceleration of the universe that started in 2013. It was not designed to look for a ninth planet, but by chance it is already looking in the right direction, according to the Cassini data.
According to a new study, from researchers at Aalto and Oxford Universities, people will have the highest number of friends around the time they reach 25. But, these numbers decline soon after.
The latest effort has been launched by researchers in Canada who will be studying the brains of four people who died after transplants gave them Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
As part of the roll-out of Facebook Live, which was only available in the US, the Californian company is rearranging the notification panel on its mobile apps.
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.
Researchers at MIT have developed a 3D-printing technique for producing hydraulic components, and have used it to print components, mechanical grips and a six-legged robot (pictured).
The enormous creature creature was fatally shot in Okeechobee, Florida, on Saturday after terrorizing the cattle on a farm and then displayed it on a tractor.
Researchers from Barnard College combed through almost 200 videos of dog-human play sessions to find out more about this unique type of interaction. They also determined the 35 words used in play.
Researchers from Cambridge found the happiness caused by having more spare cash actually depends on what you spend it on, and if those items match your personality.
E-volo has made history with a manned flight in the world's first certified multicopter. Controlled by its first passenger, The Volocopter VC200 took to the skies for a three minute flight using its 18 gently humming rotors and electric propulsion. Not only does this offer more widespread use in conventional aircraft domains, but it brings us one step closer to air taxi services and full transportation systems in the third dimension. The Volocopter's The initial two-seat design uses battery packs, with a flight-time duration of only about 20 to 30 minutes. It is piloted one-handedly with a single joystick, which has shown to reduce the major reason behind fatal helicopter accidents: human error.
The University of Cambridge says the modern English alphabet was first used more than 3,000 years ago in Ugaritic, which is now Syria. It may have spread through travel and trade.
Scientists at Stanford University studied radiocarbon dating from 1,147 archaeological sites across South America and found human populations were low until they lived in permanent settlements.
The British naturalist made the abseil at the University of Cambridge (pictured) to mark the creation of a new global hub for the nature conservation groups and university researchers.
A team at the University of California, Berkeley combined cutting edge techniques to develop a tool which able to zoom in on a patch of brain cells (stock image) and alter their activity using light.
Geneticists at Cardiff University analysed the DNA from ancient red deer remains and found those on the Scottish Outer Hebrides and Orkney were not related to those from elsewhere in Scotland.
Breeding populations on the beaches of Florida and the west coast of Mexico are now described as 'threatened' but do not face an imminent risk of extinction, the US Fish and Wildlife Service said.
Predata, founded by Washington-based James Shinn, monitors 1,000 Twitter feeds, 10,000 Wikipedia pages, 50,000 YouTube videos from 200 countries, every day.
In a letter sent to shareholders on Tuesday, Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos defended the online retailer's corporate culture following last year's report by The New York Times.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (pictured inset) gathered a group of scientists at the at New York City's American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday night for a debate about whether the universe is a simulation (still from the computer game The Sims is pictured). The event was part of the museum's Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate series, which is held each year to commemorate the life of the science fiction author.
Climate reconstructions from researchers at Stockholm University showed a prominent seesaw pattern of climate over the past twelve centuries (stock image of drought).
A group at the Australian National University (ANU) found deposits containing radioactive iron isotopes in the sea beds that were shown to be from a two separate supernovae (artist's impression).
Researchers, from US universities Harvard, Yale and Massachusetts, found that increased impulsivity and sensation-seeking in healthy young adults is linked to different brain structures.
Swipe Buster can search Tinder to find out if your partner has recently been swiping. The service costs $5 and uses public information from the dating platform to 'bust' a suspected cheater.
Scientists in California are improving the power of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) by adding a laser beam that is 1,000 times brighter, and 8,000 times faster.
'The Hive' skyscraper (illustrated) was designed by Hadeel Ayed Mohammad, Yifeng Zhao, and Chengda Zhu, as part of their university course at the University of Pennsylvania.
Queen Mary University of London says lightsabers would be more lethal than what George Lucas had imagined. It uses the same method that harnesses nuclear fusion and intense heat like the sun.
Elon Musk, Tesla's founder, made the comment during a Q&A; session on Twitter. He added that the lack of an instrument cluster 'will make sense after part 2 of the Model 3 unveil.'
A small, water-tight drone powered by the sun could soon be able to survive months out at sea. Called the Aqua-Quad, the four-propeller drone has so far proven its ability to achieve lift-off from the surface of the water and ride out rough waves. These drones could be deployed in small fleets as a 'launch and forget' system capable of independently monitoring activities under water, taking to the air when necessary. The drone is being developed by the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
The video, released by the Washington-based space agency, provides a unique view of the planet's limb, the outer edge as seen from space, as well as the weather patterns (pictured).
The stick and app sync together so a viewer can hear the audio of an Internet video though headphones plugged into a smartphone's jack.
In the United States, the seasons have begun to stray from their typical weather patterns. Stanford University has found that the conditions linked to California's droughts are occurring more frequently.
The ancient impacts could have melted subsurface ice on a cold and barren Mars, producing regional hydrothermal systems much like those in Yellowstone National Park.
Discovered by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, the process known as 'reverse photosynthesis' uses the sun's energy to break down plant biomass at remarkably fast rates.
WhatsApp has announced a major plan to keep your conversations protected.
The global messaging service is now equipped with 'end-to-end' encryption for every user with the latest version.
The boss of Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet's 'urban innovation' company mentioned the idea at a summit hosted by tech website The Information.
Of 229 natural or mixed World Heritage sites, 114 are under threat. Dangers range from oil and gas exploration to mining, illegal logging and unsustainable water use, a WWF report said.
The video shows a 1950s mechanical Facit ESA-01 pin-wheel calculator (main image), made in Sweden, flicking through numbers in a vain attempt to solve the equation. A similar maths question - 'what is zero divided by zero' brings up error messages on modern calculators and causes the iPhone's Siri to turn into a bit of a comedian. A screenshot of Apple's PA's response is shown top right.
Tech expert Jose Rodriguez from Spain claims to have discovered the bug and demonstrated the exploit in a YouTube video (screenshot shown).
Engineers at the University of South California and UC San Diego have created a new type of metallic glass that is 588 times more resistant to damage than stainless steel and can bounce when dropped.
The South Korean auto maker is working on a 'smart maintenance service' that it says will 'remotely diagnose and fix vehicle issues before they become apparent.'
Local archaeologist Lee Bement has confirmed the remains belong to a Columbian mammoth. This image shows a close-up of the skull with a tooth in place.
Twitter has won the right to broadcast Thursday night NFL games online, in a deal confirmed by Roger Goodell. Twitter outbid a number of companies, including Verizon, Amazon and Yahoo.
A trial monitoring landfill sites at Al Ghusais, Jebel Ali, and Al Warsan has been extended so a fleet of drones will patrol the beaches and desert of the United Arab Emirates.
'All-new, top of the line Kindle almost ready,' Bezos tweeted. '8th generation. Details next week.'
Here, Dr Brendan Zietsch, of the University of Queensland, he explains his findings, including whether wearing a condom or if the man is circumcised makes any difference...
Kazuyo Sejima was commissioned by the Seibu Group to design the trains, which are coated in a semi-reflective surface, and will be rolled out in 2018. It said that the train would be the first designed by Sejima, and that the design aimed to be 'soft' and 'blend into the landscape'. It will replace some of the firm's Red Arrow commuter trains (inset) which operate around Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture.
A study led by the University of Auckland studied 93 traditional Austronesian cultures to find human sacrifices (one illustrated) legitimise class-based power distinctions.
Stanford University is testing drones to dodge obstacles and are showing off this achievement through fencing. A video shows humans taking jabs at a drone, which is able to avoid the sword.
Scientists at Stanford University programmed a human-shaped robot to ask volunteers to touch it in 13 places. This included 'hands', 'shoulders' and 'low accessibility' areas, such as 'buttocks'.
Researchers at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Maryland say the technique, called immunomodulation, is ready to be used in human trials for the first time (stock image pictured).
The rare rhino (pictured) was caught in a pit trap last month in East Kalimantan province in an area close to mining operations and plantations, where it was struggling to survive.
Atlanta-based Spün Utensils has created an intelligent device with interchangeable fork and spoon heads that can weigh each mouthful and vibrates when it thinks you have eaten enough.
The Californian firm's new feature is called Automatic Alternative Text and is being tested on iOS devices with English readers enabled. Examples pictured.
Barclaycard and Barclays customers can now use their iPhone SE, 6, 6S and Apple Watch range to buy goods everywhere that accepts contactless payments across the UK (pictured).
A UK tourist claims to have snapped a UFO flying by the Empire State Building this past weekend. The witness, which is going by the name 'D', reported the claim and it has been archived as Case 75586 in the Mutual UFO Network. D was visiting New York City with his girlfriend when he took the picture while on a Double Decker bus at 5:46 pm eastern on April 2, 2016 using a simple Samsung Galaxy S6.
Researchers from the University of Tübingen ran a series of experiments in which volunteers were shown pictures of six women and asked how attractive they found them. Stock image.
When light hits our retina, it takes one-tenth of a second for our brain to translate that signal into perception. So don't believe what you see in a video that shows a lit lamp hanging from the ceiling.
Psychologists at the University of Hertfordshire studied an audience as they watched tricks performed by magicians Penn and Teller and found they blinked more as they became relaxed.
The miniscule creature Aquilonifer spinosus grew to less than half an inch long (1.2cm), and there is only one known fossil of the animal, found in Herefordshire. Virtual reconstruction is shown.
Researchers at the University of Missouri believe that crocodilians -have a second joint to distribute the force throughout the jaw, so it doesn't twist or lose grip during their powerful bite.
Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle found the development actually starts by the time babies are 11 months old and ready to say their first words.
In what was touted as the ultimate test of innovation, skill and power - a Qantas Boeing 737 and Tesla electric car racing side-by-side at a closed Melbourne Airport - and it was photo finish.
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?'
A new object with the mass of 17 billion suns has been found in a sparsely-populated area of the local universe, just 200 million light-years from Earth. This sky survey image shows the galaxy NGC 1600 and a Hubble Space Telescope closeup of the bright center of the galaxy where the 17-billion-solar-mass black hole resides
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.
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.
The list of alternative uses for coffee and tea was created by Express Vending in Hemel Hempstead, which claims to have separated the old wives tales from helpful household hacks.
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.
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.
Scientists at the Riken centre, Japan have found a way to grow complex skin cells, complete with hair (pictured), and implant them successfully on skin. It could also help burns victims.
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.
Footage (screenshot shown main) released by the US Navy shows the F-35C test aircraft piloted by Commander Theodore Dyckman releasing a 1,000lb AGM-154 Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) from an internal weapons bay on 23 March. Hailed as the most expensive weapon in history, the controversial F-35 stealth fighter jet (stock image inset) is undergoing rigorous testing at California's Edwards Air Force Base.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Festo's Bionic Learning Network designed a sphere-shaped autonomous flyer that grabs objects like a chameleon tongue. FreeMotionHandling consists of a 54 inch diameter inflated sphere, a rotor-packed ring and a flexible gripper that works like a chameleon's tongue. The gripper is basically a helium-filled film sleeve that wraps itself around objects up to 400g. Prior to being pumped with helium the flyer weighs just 3 pounds, but the addition of helium gives it an in-the-air weight of 50 g. To get from one place to another, FreeMotionHandling uses and indoor tracking system of 10 infrared cameras.
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).
Google has added a library of live-recorded animals sounds that will play when you search for them. The feature has a total of 20 animals including ape, cow, dog, elephant, turtle and zebra.
Conservators at The National Archives, London, say page two of Shakespeare's will was drafted at a different time, disproving the existing theory the will was written in one sitting.
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.
Nasa administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden told CNBC in New Jersey: 'We think we're on the right trajectory to get humans to Mars (illustrated) in the 2030's.'
Man-made global warming is making America sicker, and it's only going to get worse, according to a new federal government report.
It's known for inhabiting the murky waters of Loch Ness. But mysterious footage shows that the famous creature may have taken a bit of a holiday to London. The video was shot while Youtube user Penn Plate was travelling on the Emirates Air Line cable cars near Greenwich and shows the creature (circled) surfacing from the water before disappearing back into the river.
ESA astronaut published a stunning image of a moonset while aboard the International Space Station March 28th. This phenomenon happens when the moon dips below the horizon.
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.
Johannes Blaeu's Atlas Major was the most expensive publication of the seventeenth century - costing more than a Rembrandt painting. It is being auctioned by Sotherby's on April 26.
Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia analysed the DNA extracted from 92 mummies ('Maiden' pictured) and skeletons from lost American cultures.
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.
The laser technology was created by scientists at the Michurinsk State Agrarian University in the city of Tambov in western Russia's Tambov Oblast region.
The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space telescope has captured what it believes to be the signal from a spinning neutron star (pictured) for the first time in the Andromeda galaxy.
The Unified Weapons Master gladiator battles will be the basis for a new televised sports league using smart armour that protects fighters and tracks hits. A New Zealand firm that worked on armour for the Hobbit trilogy is hoping to bring back weapons fighting with swords and axes - allowing hits that would instantly kill an unprotected fighter.
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.
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 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.
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.
This optical illusion hidden inside a red dot (left) has left users scratching their heads. Some can see a detailed image or just an outline, while others see nothing at all. When the dot is flipped you can clearly see a detailed sketch of a horse - complete with a mane and tail, saddle and bridle and grass around its feet (right). The image is said to test people's vision and is the latest in a string of a popular brain teasers sweeping the net.
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.
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.
Archaeologists have uncovered a number of bronze artefacts which would have been used by Jewish priests in the ancient settlement of Migdal, almost 2,000 years ago.
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.
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.
The simple trick of trying to rent a film from the iTunes store that is larger than the amount of storage space left on the iPhone will free up space on the device. The easy way to free up space was first discovered by a Reddit user and works without having to delete any saved photos, music or apps. It involves trying to rent a movie from the app store that is too large for the device (shown), which triggers a clean-up of installed apps to remove data, cookies and histories that are no longer needed.
The state (illustrated), spotted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, causes electrons - thought to be indivisible building blocks of nature - to break into pieces.
Steve Maxwell was photographing surfers when he captured the pod of about 40 dolphins cruising between Avalon Beach and Whale Beach in Sydney's north.
Doctors from the Medical University of Vienna said carrying the gene for red hair is an independent risk factor for developing melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.
This incredible image, from Washington-based Nasa was captured using Hubble's infrared detector to peer through the veil of dust and gas which mask our view of the galaxy's nuclear star cluster.
The patent, awarded in South Korea, includes a contact lens equipped with a display, a camera, an antenna, and several sensors that detect movement.
Vehicle interior specialists based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, transformed a car into a mobile office after being asked to take part in the TV show 'Supercar Megabuild'.
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a Viking settlement on Point Rosee in southern Newfoundland that dates to between 800AD and 1300AD.
One larva laboratory in Guangzhou, China has released sterile mosquitoes in the local area in a bid to curb suffering caused by Dengue.
Partnering with German camera firm Leica, the new phones (P9 pictured), launched in London today, feature top-end lenses and components, allowing users to get creative with their snaps.
Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Centre in New York have unravelled the process to find that four identical units within each cell must be stimulated before a gland can work.
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.
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.
Four ancient Greek tablets inscribed with curses call upon deities of the underworld to 'cast hate' upon the owners of four taverns, and bind them in blood and ashes with the dead.
The 'Paws and Go' mat (pictured) has a flap that can hide a dog treat inside. Dogs will search for the treat using their paws to try and find it, wiping them along the way.
On March 17, a Reddit user in Austria captured the moment Jupiter is slammed into by what appears to be an asteroid or comet. It was also observed by an amateur astronomer in Ireland.
A study by psychologists at the University of Buffalo found women who wanted a partner who was smarter than themselves were less likely to be interested in science, technology, engineering or maths.
In what was touted as the ultimate test of innovation, skill and power - a Qantas Boeing 737 and Tesla electric car racing side-by-side at a closed Melbourne Airport - and it was photo finish.
Astrobiologists at Cornell University have identified several features they say indicate the huge Argyre basin (pictured) is an ideal place for life on Mars.
The Californian firm has confirmed the problem has been fixed and handsets should no longer be affected. A screenshot showing the bug is pictured.
The FBI hack of an iPhone used by a San Bernardino killer serves as a reminder that phones and other electronic devices aren't impenetrable vaults. Here are five tips to keep them secure.
People in the UK will be able to view the ISS on most of the days leading up to April 16, if the skies are clear. Tonight the ISS can be spotted from the UK at 8.55PM and 10.31PM.
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 scientists.
The New Shepard rocket and capsule blasted off from a launch site in West Texas on Saturday at an undisclosed time, and landed minutes later back at a landing pad, the company said.
Cloth found alongside a gold and silver funerary mask (pictured) found in tombs cut into the rockface close to Samdzong village in Upper Mustang, Nepal, was made with materials from China and India.
Radioactive wild boars have caused £620,000 of damage to agriculture in Fukushima prefecture, having increased by more than 330 per cent in recent years, as hunters cannot cull them fast enough.
Half of British youngsters aged 11 to 17 admitted they had seen pornography or graphic violence online via social media websites, apps and games, a survey found.
The new venture, called Toyota Connected, will be based in Plano, Texas, and will focus on connecting cars to each other as well as telematics features that learn and anticipate a driver's habits.
Mayo Clinic and Indiana University School of Medicine experts revealed male orgasms depend on signals between the brain, spinal cord and penis - and for females, the position of the clitoris during sex.
A Japan-based site is offering disposable sanitary guards that sits on the face under the headset, saving you from having to explain the awkward indents left in your skin.
Twitter has added a new button to tweets, one that enables users to share a tweet using Direct Messages in two taps, starting a private conversation more quickly.
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.
Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia used structural engineering principles to test how the head (pictured) of the sperm whale might be able to resist strong impacts.
Analysis of data from the Australian Kennel Club show registrations of small breeds have soared over the past 25 years, with the typical pet now 19 inches (48cm) high - down from 20 inches (50cm) in 1990.
Leading Shakespeare expert John Hudson claims in his book that the English playwright was actually a dark-haired Jewish woman named Amelia Bassano, who lived in London.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A source claims the Washington-based Small UAV Coalition is recommending the current ban on drones by the Federal Aviation Administration be relaxed.
Scientists are desperately trying to find a remedy for Panama Disease before bananas as we know them become extinct. A new virulent strain is threatening to wipe out the popular Cavendish variety.
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.
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.
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.
The discovery was made by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger after using Jansky Very Large Array network of radio telescopes in Socorro, New Mexico.
A new laptop unveiled by HP today will be the thinnest in the world. At 0.4 inches (10.4mm) thick, the Spectre 13 Ultrabook is both thinner and lighter than Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air.
The University of Arizona believes the dwarf planet's iconic, heart-shaped region may have shifted its location due to the gravitational pull of Charon - and taken the entire dwarf planet with it.
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.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia, modelled exoplanet oceans (illustrated) with very low and very high salinity, similar to freshwater lakes and the Dead Sea.
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 taught an AI to paint exactly like the Dutch painter by analysing 346 of Rembrandt's paintings.
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.
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.
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.
Egypt's archaeologists announced Friday they completed more extensive scanning of the two recently discovered hidden chambers in the tomb.
Large amounts of ancient dung have been unearthed on the treacherous Col de Traversette on the Italian border that dates back to the time when Hannibal led his army over the Alps.
Researchers from the University of Conneticut found that both men's and women's desire to chat to their partner after getting intimate was dependent on their individual levels of testosterone. Stock image.
Four ancient Greek tablets inscribed with curses call upon deities of the underworld to 'cast hate' upon the owners of four taverns, and bind them in blood and ashes with the dead.
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.
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.
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.
Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne created the company on April 1 1976 in a garage in California.
An Apple patent suggests the Apple Watch could be powered by hand gestures via sensors. It could also detect sign language and use the iPhone to convert the gestures in to text or speech.
The shot was caught by Washington-based Nasa's Opportunity rover in the Meridiani Planum - a plain just south of the planet's equator.
The first batch of the long-awaited VR headsets (pictured) were due to be sent out on the 28 March, but California-based Oculus has told some customers to expect delays of a week or more.
Listed in the terms and conditions for Oculus Rift headsets says the firm can gather information about the wearer and sells it to advertisers. It monitors people's head movements and activities.
Stockholm-based Triton has launched a new funding campaign, which has already raised $240,000 in backing - well over its goal of $50,000. But experts say the technology is impossible.
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.
Mathematicians at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, used network analysis to examine the books. Tyrion and Sansa Stark (Peter Dinklage and Sophie Turner) are pictured.
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.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, used stem cell to regrow nerve tissue. Actor Christopher Reeve (pictured) became paralysed after a horse riding accident.
Researchers from the French National Meteorological Research Centre (CNRS) in Paris considered the wider climate patterns over Western Europe from pre-industrial times to 2080.
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.
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 ...
Scientists suspect the stressful environment of the ISS could trigger changes in physiological responses of fungus called Aspergillus nidulans.
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.
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.
Brooklyn-based firm released an new version of 'The Insanely Great History of Apple 3.0'.
The poster displays every computer, device and operating system ever made by Apple.
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.
Researchers at Utrecht University have shown that the presence of the male sex hormone can scramble communication in the brain, lowering levels of empathy.
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.
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.
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.
Sky has shared an exclusive clip with MailOnline that shows Shadow, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier-Collie cross, piloting a plane over Oxfordshire.
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.
CEO Satya Nadella used the firm's Build conference in San Francisco to call for users 'to have more intelligent conversations with their computers.'
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.
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.
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.
The extinct heavy cattle immortalised in cave paintings (shown) could graze European plains again, as scientists are trying to 'resurrect' them from genes found in modern cattle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paleontologists in Kenya found fossilised teeth and forearm bone of Australopithecus afarensis, revealing the species roamed much further than previously thought.
The three friends from Finland who made it have nicknamed the invention their 'killer drone' (pictured), and used the test flight to hack at trees, icicles and snowmen in footage of their first run.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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