Recently translated texts dating back 1,700 years reveal the ancient spells that called upon gods and demons in hopes to attain love, sex, and power. Researchers have uncovered numerous magical formulas which may once have been used in hopes to tamper with fate, requiring a person simply add the name of their target in order to lay a curse. The spells are just a small part of an expansive collection of Egyptian papyri discovered more than 100 years ago in the city Oxyrhynchus.
University College Hospital scientists have found magnetic beads can 'push' life-saving medication around stroke victims' systems 30 times faster than normal.
University College Hospital scientists have found magnetic beads can 'push' life-saving medication around stroke victims' systems 30 times faster than normal.
Need a hand? The mind controlled robot fingers you can strap on to do everything from hold a pad to help lift heavy objects
The phrase 'I only have two hands' is no longer an excuse with a new human-machine hybrid.
Researchers have unveiled a wrist-worn joint device that transforms into extra fingers, allowing the wearer to carryout 'tri-manual tasks'.This gripper-like robot consists of 11 motors linked together using LEGO parts -- each one designed with 180 degrees of motion range. The device can assist you with writing one-handed notes or help you open a door while you unlock simultaneously.
Stay away from the sugar! Watch as DailyMail.com sets fire to common kitchen ingredients with terrifying results
You may not realize it, but lurking in your kitchen cupboard is a recipe for disaster. Corn starch, flour and sugar, common household items, are known to combust if thrown on an open flame -- but just how flammable are they?
With a torch, squeeze bottle and the three items, DailyMail.com hit the streets of Brooklyn, New York to see how dangerous your kitchen really is and found that sugar is the biggest threat.
- Stroke victims' new saviour...magnetic blood: Pioneering research could transform treatment of killer condition
- Is the flip phone coming back? Motorola teases new Android version of Razr handset
- Use the force! Watch researchers test a 'Jedi glove' that can levitate objects in mid-air using sound (and they've also made a working Dr Who sonic screwdriver)
- A galactic gold mine! Rare dwarf galaxy filled with precious elements reveals the secrets behind how they are formed
- Ancient Egyptian spellbook revealed: Papyrus contains curses that claim to ‘burn the heart of a woman' and make men do exactly what you want
- Why sea ice in Antarctica has INCREASED while the Arctic melts: Nasa study reveals how climate change has affected the poles
- You SHOULD settle: Researchers find we are more satisfied with the 'best available' partner rather than holding out for the perfect mate
- It’s too late to hide from aliens: Expert says we need to think more carefully about the messages we send to ET
- Artificial intelligence will create a ‘useless class’ of humans as machines take over, historian warns
- Should women explain gaps in their resume after raising a family? Controversial study says being honest will help land them a job
- Need a hand? The mind controlled robot fingers you can strap on to do everything from hold a pad to help lift heavy objects
- Oops! Apple pulls iPad Pro update after users report 'error 56' bricked their devices
- Apple boosts iPhone fingerprint security: New rules force users to use their passcode as well
- Why do planes crash? Expert explains five most common reasons for airliner disasters, and only one in ten are caused by terrorism
- Speed dating success could be in your GENES: Dominant men and submissive women are more likely to bag a second date
- Not even contouring can save you: Selfie-takers overestimate their own attractiveness and are seen as vain
- Stay away from the sugar! Watch as DailyMail.com sets fire to common kitchen ingredients with terrifying results
- Is the flip phone coming back? Motorola teases new Android version of Razr handset
- Ancient Egyptian spellbook revealed: Papyrus contains curses that claim to ‘burn the heart of a woman' and make men do exactly what you want
- Artificial intelligence will create a ‘useless class’ of humans as machines take over, historian warns
- It’s too late to hide from aliens: Expert says we need to think more carefully about the messages we send to ET
- Why sea ice in Antarctica has INCREASED while the Arctic melts: Nasa study reveals how climate change has affected the poles
- You SHOULD settle: Researchers find we are more satisfied with the 'best available' partner rather than holding out for the perfect mate
- The 3D printed motorbike you can pick up with one hand: Airbus reveals $56,000 electric 'light rider' that can reach 50mph
- Why do planes crash? Expert explains five most common reasons for airliner disasters, and only one in ten are caused by terrorism
- A galactic gold mine! Rare dwarf galaxy filled with precious elements reveals the secrets behind how they are formed
- Apple boosts iPhone fingerprint security: New rules force users to use their passcode as well
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The Apple store of the future: New San Francisco super store has $1.5million video screens, doors so big they take 10 minutes to open and trees... lots of trees
Tim Cook is hoping shoppers will take another bite of the Apple when they see the company's brand new San Francisco store, which was unveiled Thursday, 15 years after the opening of the first Apple Store. And with a bold new design that's either revolutionary or gimmicky, depending on your point of view, he - and company design chief Jony Ive - are certainly not pulling any punches. The store, located in the city's popular Union Square shopping area, makes a big impression straight away with a pair of 42-foot-high glass doors that are so vast they take 10 full minutes to open every morning. And that's just the outside.
Are these the most distant stars ever seen? Faint dots more than 13 BILLION light-years from Earth could reveal how the universe emerged from its 'dark age'
An international team, led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, used gravitational lensing to obtain multiple snapshots of the stars which lay behind a distant galaxy cluster, more than 13 billion light years from Earth (pictured). They used an instrument on the 10-metre telescope at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, where the observations were captured.
Use the force! Watch researchers test a 'Jedi glove' that can levitate objects in mid-air using sound (and they've also made a working Dr Who sonic screwdriver)
The University of Bristol has just brought 'The Force' alive. The team has developed three device that use acoustic levitation in order to levitate small particles in mid-air. The main device, called GauntLev or Gauntlet of Levitation, is designed like a glove that moves objects over the palm of the wearer's hand or between fingers in a pinching position.The other two configurations of this technology that use the same acoustic levitation are the 'Sonic Screwdriver' and 'Ultra Tongs'., which allow for less contact than the glove. The team developed this technology in order for people to handle dangerous materials and adrift objects in zero-g environments without contact or constrictions.
Flight of the RoboBee! Tiny aerial robots could spy in rooms by perching on walls using static electricity like a sticky balloon
Scientists have come up with an aerial microbot nicknamed the RoboBee (pictured). It has the ability to perch on surfaces like leaves (bottom left) much like a real insect, dramatically reducing the amount of energy needed to power these mini flying robots. It weights around the same as a real bee (bottom right).
Africa unveiled: Stunning mosaic combines 7,000 satellite images to show a calm and cloudless continent in unprecedented detail
The images taken by the Sentinel-2A satellite, were captured between December 2015 and April 2016. Combined, they show clear skies over 11.67 million square miles of land. The image totals 32 TB of data and shows about 20 per cent of the total land area in the world. Each of the roughly vertical strips in the image measures 180 miles wide. Presented at the recent Living Planet Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic, this is the first mosaic of Africa generated through Esa's Climate Change Initiative Land Cover project.
Uber drivers, beware: Taxi app tests self-driving car in Pittsburgh that could put all of its 'contractors' out of work
Uber has released a picture of its self-driving prototype. A hybrid Ford Fusion has been transformed into an autonomous vehicle, fully equipped with a variety of sensor, radars and high-resolution cameras. Uber has chosen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for its testing site, which will start in the next coming weeks.
Mars was plagued by MEGA-TSUNAMIS: Waves up to 400 feet high swept across ancient oceans following meteor strikes on red planet, leaving scars still visible today
It has long been thought Mars was home to a vast ocean 3.4 billion years ago (artist's impression pictured). But the evidence for shorelines did not support the theory, since it showed the shores were elevated and distributed rather than distributed consistently (shown inset). But a team based in the US, including the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, have used advanced imaging techniques combined with numerical simulations to demonstrate two separate meteorite impacts caused tsunamis reaching as high as 120 metres (394ft) on the planet. This will have created the elevated shorelines.
London to New York in 35 minutes: Successful hypersonic Mach 7 engine test brings high-speed air travel a massive step closer to reality
US and Australian military researchers have conducted a successful test of an experimental hypersonic engine in Woomera, south Australia, bringing the technology a step closer. The rocket (pictured) reached an altitude of 172 miles and a target speed of 7.5 times the speed of sound. Researchers working on the project say they hope to build an aircraft that could travel the 10,000 mile journey between London and Sydney in just two hours, and London to New York in 35 minutes.
The red planet draped in cloud: Nasa releases stunning new Hubble image of Mars as it's set to reach its closest distance to Earth in more than a decade
Nasa has revealed this incredible Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars, taken to show off the incredible effect the seasons have on the red planet. It reveals bright, frosty polar caps, and clouds above a vivid, rust-colored landscape. The Hubble Space Telescope view was taken on May 12, 2016, when Mars was 50 million miles from Earth, and reveals details as small as 20 to 30 miles across.
What is the Beast of Port Talbot? Washed-up remains of mystery sea monster leave beachgoers baffled
Melanie Rees, 41, (inset) was walking her dog along Morfa Beach in Port Talbot, South Wales, when she discovered a huge 11ft-long carcass (main picture). Beachgoers were left puzzled after the mystery creature was found on the sand. Mrs Rees and her husband Mike, 47, are used to seeing jellyfish and other small creatures washed up on the sand - but never anything this big. No one has been able to identify what it once was.
Stunning Nasa images show dramatic changes to polar landscapes as glaciers shrink at frightening pace
Images released by NASA show dramatic changes in the world's environment over time. The images appear to support the organisation's fear of global warming and show incredible glaciers being replaced with greenery and mountain ice caps disappearing. One pair of images show the imposing Northwestern Glacier in Alaska snaking down to the sea, where blocks of ice float (top left) and then 65 years later no traces left (bottom left). Another striking image features the imposing Pedersen Glacier in Alaska in 1917 (pictured top right) and then a huge expanse of greenery exposed by the retreating ice huge in 2005 (pictured bottom right). Satellite images also show how snow and ice have disappeared from mountains such as Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Myrdalsjökull in Iceland. Another features a huge crack appearing in a glacier in Antarctica.
Secrets of the Kuiper Belt to be revealed: New Horizons brings mysterious object from the early solar system into focus
It took New Horizons 10 years and 3 billion miles to reach Pluto - and now it has it's sights set on a new target. The probe is currently exploring Kuiper Belt, a chilly expanse that holds trillions of mysterious objects leftover from the early solar system. Today, Nasa released an image it took of 1994 JR1, a 90-mile-wide (145-km-wide) Kuiper Belt object which orbits more than 3 billion miles (5 billion km) from the sun. The inset graph shows the variations in the brightness of light reflected from the object's surface - to determine JR1's rotation period of 5.4 hours.
Everest is not the world's highest mountain! Strange bulge in the Earth's shape means a volcanic peak in Ecuador actually sticks out further into the atmosphere
Mount Chimborazo claims Mount Everest's title as world's highest mountain. When measuring from the equator, Chimborazo rises the highest at about 3,967 miles, according to researchers who have taken GPS measurements from the summit. Everest by comparison does not even make the cut for the Earth's top 20 highest mountains, at 3,965 miles from the planet's centre.
Cities from the deep: Wonders of ancient Egypt go on show for the first time after spending a thousands years submerged beneath the Mediterranean
Towering statues, golden jewellery and hieroglyphic tablets that were feared to have been lost forever have been reclaimed from the sea and will be go on display in a major exhibition at the British Museum. The treasures belong to the sunken cities of Heracleion and Canopus, built on the shifting ground of the Nile delta, which are now buried beneath 10ft (3 metres) of silt. Photographs released today offer a sneak peek inside the highly anticipated exhibition, which opens on Thursday.
As crisp packets are found in the countryside looking nearly new after 33 years... How long does litter take to rot?
During a recent clean-up along the A48 in the Forest of Dean, campaigners found crisp packets that were 33 years old, which meant they had been thrown out of car windows some 1,716 weeks ago. Disturbingly, even though the crisps would have been eaten when Margaret Thatcher was in power, the packets looked no more than a few days old. You might have thought this litter could constitute some sort of rubbish record, but you would be wrong. Plastic bags and bottles could potentially last hundreds, thousands or even millions of years without decomposing, according to scientists.
Subway construction workers in Rome find 2,000 year old 'military neighbourhood' complete with 39 rooms, ornate mosaics and even a graveyard
Construction to a Roman subway line has unearthed an ancient military neighbourhood buried beneath the city. As builders continue construction nearby, archaeologists on site are working to recover the artefacts contained within the barrack's expanse of 39 rooms, which include ornate mosaics (top right). The dig also revealed a collective grave (bottom right), containing numerous skeletons and a bronze bracelet.
Mysterious civilization of 'Sea Peoples' were wiped out by 'world war zero' 3,000 years ago
More than 3000 years ago, the flourishing Bronze Age civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean suddenly met their downfall. The Trojan War erupted as one of the final events culminating an era of chaos which one archaeologist has named 'World War Zero,' plunging the region into a Dark Age soon after. And, it was all begun by a mysterious and powerful civilization which came to be known as the 'Sea Peoples,' a new theory from Luwian Studies suggests.
The giant autonomous SPY ship: Military firm reveals drone-satellite hybrid that will snoop on Earth from the stratosphere
A Franco-Italian aerospace manufacturer is developing an airship that could be the eye in the sky for government agencies. Called Stratobus, this 100-meter-long autonomous blimp is said to be a mix 'between a drone and a satellite'. Thales Alenia Space is designing this ship for both civil and military applications, with a focus on surveillance and environmental management. Stratobus can hover 20 kilometres in the air, which allows for a view range of about 500 kilometres, over its theater of operations and in the lower layer of the stratosphere, which offers sufficient density to provide lift for the balloon. It will also soar high into the stratosphere, reaching altitudes of 20,000 meters.
Here be treasure! Rare bronze statues and thousands of coins among Roman artefacts recovered from shipwreck at the ancient port of Caesarea
The objects (pictured left) including thousands of coins (top right) and rare bronze statues, had been on an ancient merchant vessel 1,600 years ago and were due to be melted down when the ship sank outside the port of Caesarea, Israel (shown underwater right) . They were recovered by two Israeli divers, who came across it around two weeks ago. The artefacts, which included a bronze lamp depicting the sun god Sol and a figurine of the moon goddess Luna, were preserved on the sea bed after spilling out of the ancient ship.
Ancient forest lost beneath the North Sea is uncovered: Shifting sands reveal 7,000-year-old woodland and human footprints
Ancient tree stumps and logs (pictured left), preserved by peat and sand, are now clearly visible along a 200 metre stretch of coastline at Low Hauxley near Amble, Northumberland. The forest once stretched over a land bridge that connected Britain to Europe known as Doggerland. It gradually flooded as glaciers from the last ice age melted and geological activity saw it dip below sea level. But this meant the ancient forest has been perfectly preserved in a layer of peat. They are now being gradually revealed by the tides as the ocean washes away the sand (pictured top right and bottom right). Scientists say they have found preserved footprints left by humans and animals among the trees.
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