Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of at least 70 cave paintings depicting ancient hunters and animals at the end of Upper Paleolithic period.
Scientists at Florida Institute of Technology used a high-speed camera to capture an amazing lighting flash from near the university's Melbourne campus. The video taken hows what lightning looks like in slow motion, revealing the way the charged particles move in a forked pattern before lighting up the sky when they reach the ground (sequence pictured). The research team hopes to study the dynamics of the upward electrical discharges from thunderstorms known as starters, jets and gigantic jets.
Research from the University of Lincoln used broken pottery as a proxy for the presence of human populations before and after the Black Death. Results show a decline of 45 per cent.
Researchers in Germany have come up with a practical way to use a different kind of atomic clock, to measure a second more accurately than those used now.
Vocal fatigue is also twice as common in teachers in comparison to any other profession - potentially harming students and their education, warn scientists from Michigan State University.
A team led by researchers at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, have shown the crucial social skill - picking out real from fake smiles (stock image) - appears early on in childhood.
Researchers from Flinders University, Australia, have found letting babies cry themselves to sleep may not cause the attachment issues many worry about and can reduce stress for everyone.
These giraffes appear unfazed as they help themselves to mouthfuls of leafs in South Africa despite suffering from a rare and rather unsightly skin condition.
Italian astronomers have glimpsed a look at what they think were the 'seeds' for supermassive black holes, by peering back into the early universe. The newly observed 'seed candidates' (artist's impression pictured) are black holes around 100,000 times the mass of our sun, and the fact they were observed so early in the universe indicates they probably formed when a massive cloud of gas collapses. One of two detected supermassive black hole seeds, OBJ29323, pictured left, as seen by the Hubble space telescope (top) and Chandra space telescope (bottom).
Apple boss Tim Cook today joked in Amsterdam that he always thought he knew when the iPhone was invented until he saw a 346-year-old painting by Dutch artist Pieter de Hooch.
Earlier this month, hunter Didji Ishalook shot a white bear in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut which turned out to be a polar-bear-grizzly hybrid (pictured).
Donald Trump has almost two million more followers on Twitter than Hillary Clinton. A new study suggests that politicians with more extreme political beliefs tend to have more Twitter followers.
Researchers in Taiwan and Japan found gaps in dust clouds - evidence of planets orbiting - around a nearby young star, HL Tauri (pictured), indicating planets can form faster than first thought.
The technology is on board Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas - the world's largest cruise ship which made its inaugural sailing from Southampton this weekend.
Tech industry titans Tim Cook and Eric Schmidt took their battle for corporate domination to the heart of Europe on Tuesday seeking to win over new startups ...
The latest experiments are designed to improve the use X-ray lasers, and better understand how they cause liquids to explode. Liquids are a common way of bringing samples into the path of the X-ray beam. But, at full power, ultra bright X-rays can blow up samples within a tiny fraction of a second. The tests were carried out by Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory using the lab's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) - the most powerful x-ray laser in the world (inset).
On the heels of one of the strongest El Niños on record, climate scientists reveal the world may soon be bracing itself for the arrival of La Niña. Recent data shows there is a 75 percent chance the climate pattern will develop by fall, when surface temperatures in the Pacific could drop more than 0.5°C below average near the equator. A new 3D animation released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the path of deep, cool water as it makes its way eastward - a 'slow-motion wave' that could signify a developing La Niña.
Scientists at The University of Western Australia warned these mutations, that can cause illnesses including cancer, can be passed on to a person's children and for several future generations.
Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2 are smartwatches that track heart rate, and Pebble Core is a hackable connected device. The devices are available worldwide and will be shipped later this year.
Aerial footage has captured the moment a salt water crocodile kills a marine turtle and swims away despite a school of sharks following close behind attempting to steal its meal in the NT.
Flying off the handle in the midst of an argument increases the risk of high blood pressure, heart problems and chest pain, while brooding silently can trigger back pain, say experts at the University of California, Berkeley.
The message, sent through hugely popular messaging app Whatsapp, includes a link to a 'golden version' but this contains malware and could open the door to fraud.
Successful candidates are due to fall from as high as 138,000 feet wearing special parachuting suits in the new space-diving project run by Beijing-based Gold Ocean Space Technology.
Designs for the 'Transit Elevated Bus' (pictured) were unveiled at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo, which showed a scale model of the vehicle passing over other cars on the road. The bus will be able to carry up to 1,200 passengers, according to engineers. They say passengers will sit far above the road, while other vehicles pass through a space underneath them. The first tests of the bus are scheduled to start trail operation in Qinhuangdao City, north China's Hebei Province, in the second half of this year.
Researchers in Uruguay examined the relationship between body size and food chains of megafauna, such as mammoths (pictured) which would have dominated the world thousands of years ago.
Researchers in Colorado gave antibiotics to a group of cows to test the effects on how much methane they produce. They found antibiotics almost double the amount of methane coming from cow dung.
Nasa believes dark matter consisting of primordial black holes explains the unexpectedly high masses of merging black holes last year. They found both give off the same irregular glow of low-energy.
Researchers in China examined the influence of perceived wealth status on romantic behaviour, using two experiments to 'prime' participants' feelings of having relatively more or less money.
The speaker would double as a music player according to tech blog The Information, and could be revealed next month at the firm's annual developer conference, it is believed.
When it comes to choosing between hitting the gym or charging their smartphone, a survey of 2,000 Americans by LG found one in three people are likely to skip the gym.
These are the amazing pictures of the Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley National Park in California which was created by a massive volcanic explosion some 300 years ago.
Cornell University and Stanford University built a Watch-Bot, a robot that uses probabilistic learning models and a laser pointer to remind humans when they leave something out of forget a chore.
Airbus has been awarded a patent for, what they says is, the fastest helicopter in the world.
Illustrations reveal a unique design with components found in fixed-wing airplanes, two Rolls Royce Turbomeca RTM322 series engines and technology that transforms it into an airplane. Called 'Compound Helicopter', the patent describes a vehicle that is high speed, long range hybrid helicopter that claims can reach speeds of 293 miles per hour.
The discovery was made after scientists from Europe, Russia and the US measured the length of arm, leg and pelvic bones of two neonate Neanderthal skeletons from Russia and Spain.
Research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has found that mucus could help dolphins make the loud high frequency sounds they make to hunt down their prey.
Research from Duke University has suggested that the link between poverty and depression in adolescents (stock image) may be due to a combination of genetics and brain changes.
The handset has a rare red lightning connector, marking it out as a prototype device. It also runs Apple's 'SwitchBoard' software, which the company uses for testing handsets.
A new video has been posted by channel Transcend Rules on YouTube, which sets videos of the growth of slime moulds to the iconic theme song of Game of Thrones.
Apple has filed a patent feared at those who always lose their keys. The patent describes using the iPhone or Apple watch to unlock, start and activate other in a car. But there is no mention of the iCar.
Technology company Moxi, based in Chongqing, China, has developed devices that will cost £531 ($776) with highly flexible screens (pictured top right) using the Nobel Prize winning material graphene (illustrated bottom right). The company hopes to initially release 100,000 of the devices for the Chinese market. The devices will at first feature simple black and white screens, but the company has showed off a full colour version (pictured left) capable of playing video.
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University studied the bat-eating habits of Cercopithecus after seeing the monkeys preying on two different bat species in Gombe National Park in Tanzania (pictured).
Faception, an Israeli start-up firm based in Tel Aviv, says it has developed technology that can spot character traits in a person's face that are undetectable to the naked eye.
The new Texas method takes two weakly random sequences of numbers, such as stock market prices sampled over time, and turns them into one sequence of truly random numbers.
The OLED screen would allow users to create their own custom keys for each app. The device, expected to be unveiled in September, could also include a Touch ID fingerprint sensor.
The site has confirmed much-mooted plans to stop attachments and links from contributing to its strict total as part of an overhaul.
Video footage from the tail of a masked boobie has revealed how it catches its increasingly hard-to-find ocean prey. The researchers at the University of Sydney think the species is threatened.
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.
Mount Chimborazo claims Mount Everest's title as world's highest mountain - but only when measured from the equator. This is due to the fact that the Earth bulges at the centre and flattens at the poles.
The Gripen E prototype 39-8 'Smart Fighter', unveiled in Sweden, is slightly bigger than previous versions, has a stronger engine and updated radar systems. It is designed to carry more weapons further, and to track multiple threats using the latest type of radar. Like others in the range, the Gripen E has a delta wing and fly-by-wire flight avionics. But unlike some others in the line, it has a greater fuel capacity, 20 per cent more thrust, more pylons, in-flight refuelling capability and increased take-off weight. The aircraft is aimed at markets not yet cleared to buy the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
A study has been conducted which claims that Fitbit heart trackers are inaccurate. This evidence could back up a lawsuit again the company. However, Fitbit denies the claims.
An investigation which looked at risk scores for more than 7,000 offenders arrested in Florida in 2013 and 2014 claims to have It turned up racial disparities in the formula used (stock image).
Research from UCL has found that women are more likely to be seen as confident leaders if they adopt a power stance - with feet shoulder width apart and using expansive hand gestures (illustrated).
In a recent study, researchers from Brigham Young University conducted a series of experiments to determine the effects of human emotions on a dog's response to pointing cues.
Solar Impulse 2 had been due to fly to LeHigh Valley in Pennsylvania for the thirteenth leg of its round-the-world record attempt but a failure in its inflatable hangar caused the fabric to briefly touch the plane.
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed the device - which uses microphones and vibration sensors to listen to and measure the sounds inside the joint.
Amazing detailed photos by photographer Tanto Yensen from Jakarta, Indonesia capture the moment a wild Javan Gliding Tree frog dives and starts swimming underwater.
People did not increase the amount of steps they walked in a day even when they knew their exercise levels were being monitored, a Oklahoma State University study found.
A study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life Institute have found widespread buried deposits of iron and calcium-rich Martian carbonates. This points to a warmer and wetter environment in the planet's past. The identified regions of Mars (a crater in the Hesperia Planum with carbonate bedrock pictured left and top right) could be a good place to look for evidence that life once existed, the researchers said.
Using thousands of Twitter profile pictures, an international team of researchers found that personality traits can be predicted based on differences in aesthetic and facial presentation.
Dating app Tinder, owned by Texas-based Match.com is suing a UK based app called '3nder', for people looking for threesomes, over the similarity in the companies' names.
Facebook has been forced to apologise after it banned an ad for featuring model Tess Holiday (left) in a bikini, saying it was against their health and fitness policy.
The stickers were first introduced last month, but the latest update allows you to use them in snaps in the same way as emojis. They can be found in the same section as emojis, under the note icon.
Magenta will launch officially on June 1st, but Google provided a glimpse at what users might expect at this year's Moogfest music and technology festival in North Carolina.
Many ex-smokers have developed an addiction to nicotine gum - with 10 per cent chewing it four times longer than they should (a year) and 5 per cent for two years. Some use it for ten years.
Research from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, suggests that there are certain cells in the brain that are responsible for why delaying bedtime creates chronic sleepiness.
The new technology is being trialled at Geneva Airport Terminal 1 this month. After scanning your boarding pass, the robot will take your bags inside so you can go straight to security checks.
The Survival Capsule is a personal safety system designed to withstand tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes. The capsules will withstand the initial impact of a natural disaster, as well as sharp object penetration, heat exposure and rapid deceleration.
Beginning in September, Netflix will be the only streaming partner allowed to carry all Disney films including Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm titles.
New iPhone 7 leaks say the shame of Apple is here to stay, but you have to use wireless headphones. Apple says these devices will bring its iPhone growth to normal and ordered 10m more than expected.
Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have discovered catalyst materials that improve the efficiency of lithium-air batteries so they can last up to five times longer than they do currently.
Facebook has changed its policies on Trending Topics over claims the California-based company had a strong anti-conservative bias when preparing its news feed.
Scientists at the University of Stanford looked at artefacts (pictured) found in China, using a method of analysis that had never been done before, to deduce the world's oldest known beer recipe.
Researchers in New York say intelligent parents give rise to larger brained babies, which are born earlier to boost survival chances, resulting in a feedback loop which selects for intelligence.
If scientists ever make contact with intelligence life outside of Earth, the uncontrolled spread of such news could trigger worldwide panic and even violence, researchers in the UK warn.
New research from the University of Toronto suggests that people who take regular selfies overestimate their own attractiveness and likeability and are seen as vain.
India has launched a 23 feet long scale model of its space shuttle (pictured right) from a spaceport in Satish Dhawan, in the south east of the country (shown in inset map bottom right), as part of its attempts to develop new reusable spacecraft. The country is hoping the resusable spacecraft (pictured during launch left) will cut costs and help it put satellites into space. The launch comes almost five years since Nasa last launched its own Space Shuttle into orbit before scrapping the disaster hit programme.
Researchers at the University of Geneva recreated ice-forming conditions in Cirrus clouds (illustrated) in the lab. Lasers caused the ice to shatter into many more smaller reflective pieces
The 'All Domain Offensive Surface Warfare Capability' will carry targeting information from satellites, aircraft, ships, submarines and weapons themselves.
Numbers of octopus, cuttlefish and squid have increased significantly over the last 60 years despite changes to the world's oceans, according to new research by the University of Adelaide.
Psychologist Tanya Byron has said racy celebrity photographs teach young girls worrying lessons about sexuality and has led her to proclaim 'feminism is dead'.
Sainsbury's are giving their shoppers new Bosch fridges that have tiny cameras in so they can see what needs to be replaced while on the shopping aisles, using their phones.
Researchers from Arizona State University compared meteorites to rocks on Earth and found the space boulders were much more likely to crumble than stay intact and cause impact craters.
Researchers at the University of Exeter has shown that burying beetles (pictured) evolve different shaped genitals, in response to the males' desire to have more sex than the females.
Google and IMAX are developing a virtual reality camera in collaboration. This will enable filmmakers and content creators to deliver 3D 360-degree content to audiences worldwide.
An incredible video shows the amazing moment a huge fireball tears across the Mexican sky lighting up five different states and shaking houses with loud explosions in the early hours of the morning. The phenomenon was recorded over the centre of Mexico where it was studied by astronomer Jose Ramon Valdes, Coordinator of the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE). During a press conference, the scientist declared that the fireball was considered by many to be a meteorite. However, because it didn't impact the planet, but instead passed through the Earth's atmosphere, it wasn't technically a meteorite. However it was this interaction with the atmosphere that caused the shockwave from the asteroid that people in Mexico heard and felt.
Archaeologists, led by The Field Museum in Chicago, believe the weird biological oddity (fossil pictured) shows life evolved quickly to fill niches. following the catastrophic extinction.
Marc Buehner, reader in cognitive science at Cardiff University says there is one group of people who can tickle themselves, those who are diagnosed with schizophrenia.
According to palaeontologists at the University of Toronto, the king of the dinosaurs (illustrated) may have kept its fearsome teeth under wraps behind a set of lips.
Kyoto University experts showed 40 men pictures of 150 women and asked which they would most like to have a relationship with. Crucially, they were told some were attached and others single.
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the first flexible wearable device capable of monitoring both biochemical and electric signals in the human body, like the tricorder in Star Trek.
Scientists in the US have discovered sweat, sun-tan lotion and urine can react with chlorine and other chemicals used to clean swimming pool water to create potentially harmful by-products.
Nasa researchers came to the conclusion after combining data on sea surface temperature, land form and ocean depth to study the physical processes on sea ice cover.
Uber has denied pressuring customers into paying higher fares, even though the app can detect when phones reach low levels of battery, as it switches the app into a power saving mode.
The bright pattern is the latest optical illusion to spread online, playing on the way your brain processes colour. The picture appears to show green, blue and pink swirls - but not all is as it seems. The optical illusion was created by Akiyoshi Kitaoka , a Japanese professor of psychology.
EXCLUSIVE: Researchers from Nottingham fitted volunteers with cameras and sensors to measure their reactions as they rode The Ultimate Abyss on the Harmony of the Seas.
The pen (pictured generating metallic hoops), unveiled earlier this month by Harvard's Wyss Institute, doesn't need any support to function, unlike traditional 3D printers.
The RAZR flip phone was first introduced in 2004. Now, new owner Lenovo is expected to unveil an updated, Android powered version of the phone next month.
Freddy was found in a bad way by vets in Brazil with his shell completely destroyed, things were looking bleak for the reptile but thankfully a group of superhero surgeons came to his aid.
The list was drawn up with the help of computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy from the University of Louisville. He says, as far-fetched as they sound, we need to take the threats seriously.
The experiment took place in London's Gordon Square earlier today, and saw two lines of volunteers - mostly UCL archaeology students - lining up to heave the slap over a designed sled (pictured).
Another milestone in the march towards a cashless society was reached last year after notes and coins were used in 45.1 per cent of all transactions in the UK, thanks to the rise of contactless payments.
Researchers from the University of Bologna studied a group of 88 boys and analysed aspects of their walk - discovering those who had undergone growth spurts had a less smooth gait.
The space race to Mars is heating up - and now, Lockheed Martin is getting involved. The military firm has unveiled plans to create a manned space laboratory that will orbit the planet by 2028. It says it will use existing technologies, such as the Orion deep-space capsule, to speed up development of the outpost that will eventually help humans land on Mars. Nasa wants to get to Mars in the 2030s, and Lockheed Martin hopes to convince the space agency that an orbiting outpost several years earlier is the way forward.
A study from the University of California shows you're more likely to be asked on a second date if you have gender-stereotypical genes - for dominance in men, and submissiveness in females.
A new procedure being studied at University College Hospital in London uses magnetic beads to 'push' life-saving medication around stroke victims' systems 30 times faster than normal.
The number of lampreys in rivers across the UK are rocketing, with record numbers recently recorded in the Great Ouse in East Anglia, the Trent in Staffordshire and Derwent and Wear.
The University of Texas found that people tend to compare their partner to others in the dating pool and are dissatisfied in their relationship -- even if they fit their ideal preferences of a perfect match.
Scientists have found that the sound of babies crying will do more than just grab our attention. Instead it may actually alter the activity of our brains, making it harder to pay attention and focus.
Female candidates who gave personal information raised their chance of being hired by 30 to 40 percentage point, according to a study, by Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
This ambitious architectural masterpiece is called Casa Brutale and will now become reality some 5,249ft above sea level on a cliff in Lebanon
The biggest increase was in Africa due to improvements in care for children and the better availability of medicines, including those for malaria and AIDS, the World Health Organization said
A black puppy born with a trunk where its nose should be (top left), a piglet with a head shaped like an elephant (top right), a two-headed calf (bottom left), a human-like pig, and a four-legged chick.... these are just four of the abnormally high number of 'mutant' animals born in Argentina in recent years. Experts put the deformities down to the use of the use of the pesticide glyphosate, which is used on genetically modified soy bean crops.
University of Bristol has developed a circuit design that charges your phone, while it is in your smartwatch. Called PowerShare, it enables power transfer interactions on mobile devices.
According to research from Stanford University and the University of Oxford, supercharged 'divisive' primaries can either help or harm a party nominee depending on the degree of attention they attract.
To help find more effective laundry techniques while continuing to consider the environment, researchers in the UK have now identified the six chemicals that contribute to laundry's unpleasant smell.
Hatchling turtles face an uphill battle from birth as they fight their way out of nests under a layer of sand. Scientists have discovered that by digging together, hatchlings can save precious energy
The laptops run a version of Google's Chrome browser instead of an operating system like Windows - but until now have been unable to download apps.
The missing 12 letters from a gene on chromosome 17 were spotted in a study of genomes and clinical data across the population of Iceland, reports a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Scientists in Leeds have uncovered the secret of the Eastern Wood frog (pictured), and how it can freeze and thaw which could hopefully lead to improvements in IVF.
Research suggests that 'earworms' - that experience of having music stuck in your head - are commonplace. however, researchers have now revealed how to get rid of them.
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.
Despite a temporary ban on funding for these projects in the US, some researchers have been able to continue their work, implanting human stem cells into animal embryos to create 'hybrids.'
Star-AL is designing a man-made meteor shower that can be seen all over Tokyo during the games. The pyrotechnics show, dubbed 'Sky Canvas', will be visible from an area of over 120 miles
A team at Arizona State University has been cooking up new ways to make edible super capacitors to power a camera and medical devices from inside the human body (pictured).
Ara provides a frame in which modules such as cameras, speakers, and sensors can be re-arranged by users like game pieces so as to customize handsets.
The space fence is due to become operational from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 2018. It will operate in frequencies 1,000 times higher than its predecessor.
Palaeontologists Natural Sciences Museum of La Pampa in Argentina said the bird was the largest Pelagornithid specimen ever found (pictured). The bird was a toothy ancestor of the albatross.
Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia found humans have an upper limit on the number of close friends we each can have - and it has remained the same for thousands of years.
A Florida-based brewery has created a smart new way to prevent the devastating impact discarded plastic has on marine wildlife by creating edible beer rings.
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.
Experts at Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire say a proposed housing development will mean radio interference from household appliances playing havoc with their instruments.
These so-called 'revenge porn' sites house images of now-spurned former partners who once voluntarily posed in a sexually provocative in private with someone they thought they could trust.
Pilot error is the most common causes for aircraft crashes, followed by equipment failures and bad weather (pictured) explains Simon Ashley Bennett, from the University of Leicester.
Douglas Vakoch, president of the San Francisco-based non-profit group, 'Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence International', says current signals to ET are too simplistic.
Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have discovered evidence of icy comets orbiting a nearby alien sun in a solar system 160 light years from Earth.
Officials warned yesterday that people living in remote areas would be required to make a 'reasonable' financial contribution towards their connection, which could cost thousands.
The protective coating would cover the car's hood, front bumper and front side panels, keeping the pedestrian from 'bouncing off' the car until it stopped moving.
A hacker claims to have 117million Linkedin log-in account details and has put them up for sale on the dark web, an illegal marketplace full of cyber criminals.
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.
A recent patent suggests what most iOS owners have been hoping for -- an all-screen iPhone. Apple describes technology that ditches the home button and places the sensor under the display.
The new capabilities were unveiled by Clay Bavor, the head of Google's VR project, and the annual IO event in San Francisco.
The test will simulate a 9.0 magnitude quake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, followed by a tsunami that could create waves more than 50ft-high.
Starting Sunday, the red planet will be one of the brightest objects in the night sky for skywatchers around the world, and it will reach its closest distance to Earth in the days to follow.
A team, led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, used gravitational lensing see faint stars which lay behind a distant galaxy, more than 13 billion light years away (pictured).
Astronomers at the University of Southampton detected a star orbiting a white dwarf 730 light years from Earth, which has stripped so much material from the star it has turned into a brown dwarf.
Microsoft announced today that it is selling Nokia's feature phone business, while Nokia revealed that one of the purchasing companies has rights to develop devices under its name.
Google has unveiled a new messaging app it hopes will be able to take on Facebook's Messenger and Snapchat with new AI features. It can even analyse pictures and suggest a response.
The electric motorcycle is made from tiny aluminum alloy particles using a 3D printer, and can go 37 miles on a single charge. 50 motorbikes will be made costing $56,000 each. The frame weighs just 13 pounds, about 30 percent less than conventional e-motorbikes.
Dubbed 'Trip Tracker', the feature pushes out notifications when the journey starts and lets users see the entire trip using a live map. The service is available globally.
Called Swiftmoji, the keyboard uses the firms predictive AI technology to automatically suggest the right emoji based on what you've typed. It is available on Google Play for beta testers.
Oregano is being fed to cattle by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark in the hope that it will reduce the methane they produce. Methane is 23 times more harmful to the atmosphere than CO2.
Packing more into the day increases the opportunity to learn new things, stimulating and challenging the brain, claim University of Texas researchers.
Most of Britain's major banks have signed up to Google's contactless payment system, which will work in many high street shops and on London's transport network.
The giant coloured cloud of gas was snapped by the ESO based in Garching, Germany. Researchers say it demonstrates the cycle of birth and death of stars in the universe (pictured).
Researchers at Stanford University in California, have been able to track subtle changes in genes (illustrated) over just a few thousand years, and link them to physical traits across the population.
Kids sacrifice good grades in math and English if they spend a lot of time multitasking on different devices such as smartphones and TV, according to new research.
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.
The breakthrough could lead to new materials for windows, and is even strong enough to use in cars. To create the transparent wood, researchers chemically removed lignin from wood.
A recent study in the United States found that people commonly exhibit a phenomenon known as 'unethical amnesia' when recalling memories that they are not proud of, making them less vivid.
Fast.com checks personal internet connections -- for both cellular and broadband. Netflix says if users are paying more for what the tool measures they should discuss the results with their provider.
Researchers in Denmark found that males nursery web spiders who didn't present their mates with a gift were more likely to end up eaten, while those who did were allowed more time for copulation.
Researchers from Nottingham Trent University focused on how connected people felt to certain groups, measuring the impact this had on their happiness and life satisfaction (stock image).
Scientists at the American Chemical Society have revealed that chewing gum does not remain in your stomach for seven years when swallowed, but passes out within one or two days.
Engineers at the University of Sheffield have created small cubic modules that can swim independently through tight spaces before joining together to create larger robot.
Peter Lohr, 70, claims to have found five large metal objects in a cave in the Jonas Valley in Thuringia state, of which at least two are 'atomic bombs'.
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).
In a new study, scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California compared Europa's potential for producing hydrogen and oxygen with that of Earth's.
Google is today sharing the first thousand ultra-high resolution images taken by its 'Art Camera' of works by global artist's including Pissarro, Signac, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Monet.
Using a service called Swapshots customers can turn their mobile phone photographs into cards and type a personal message on the back to send to family and friends.
Researchers from the University of Rochester, New York, reveal you can now move an object which is cloaked by a device they have created and it still remains hidden to the human eye.
Objects as small as a fleck of paint can become a hazard once they reach orbital speeds of up to 22,000 mph (34,500 km/h). 'Glad [the window] is quadruple glazed,' said Peake.
The 'Sandstorm' unmanned aircraft will be used by the US government in Nevada for remote radiation sensing and environmental monitoring, along with other security applications.
According to bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari, rather than being violently wiped out by robotic beings, humankind may become 'eternally useless' due to the increasing capabilities of AI.
The latest update from Apple, iOS 9.3.2, turned some 9.7-in iPad Pros into useless paperweights. Today the firm has removed the update and said those affected should contact Apple Support.
The destroyer, constructed at Bath Iron Works, in Maine, is built for battles on open sea and to support troops close to the shore and its angular shape makes it 50 times more difficult to detect.
A seemingly new prompt requires users to enter a passcode if the device hasn't been unlocked using its passcode in six days, and the Touch ID hasn't been used within the last eight hours.
Prashant Bagdia, a computer science student in Warangal, India, says his friend was faced with the toughest conundrum yet during a recent campus placement interview with Microsoft.
Artificial intelligence software developed by researchers in Baltimore can predict a person's age with 84 per cent accuracy. They trained the system using 60,000 blood samples.
Earlier this week, roughly 150 scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs met in secrecy at Harvard Medical School in Boston to discuss the possibility of creating an entirely synthetic human genome.
Research from Cambridge's Department of Zoology has identified genes that allow some birds to produce red pigment. The colour red is used in the animal kingdom to attract a mate.
While such technology is undoubtedly wonderful, what worries me is that we have all become too dependent on it.
The experiment, created an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize.
The striking face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6814 lies at a distance of about 66 million light years and is about 75,000 light years across - or around half the size of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Snapchat could be changing the order that its 100 million users see photos and videos. This comes shortly after Facebook updated their platform so content most relevant was seen first.
Two pilots have revealed that hey saw an object with green lights pass by their passenger jet as they approached Istanbul's Ataturk Airport from Bodrum, an hour before the Egyptair jet crashed.
Archaeologists in east London are unearthing the theatre, which is referred to in Henry V as 'this wooden O', and discovering it has some unusual features.
Elements like gold were created when mind-bogglingly dense neutron stars crushed into each other (artist's impression shown), according to research by MIT's Kavli Institute, in Massachusetts.
An octopus was filmed playing tug of war with a robot conducting maintenance underwater, off the Canadian coast in the Pacific Ocean, shot by Connecticut-based ocean exploration team Nautilus.
A team at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland conducted a detailed case study of the slow solar wind to determine how it is made, back on the sun.
WhatsApp beta testers were given a peak of a new feature. The latest Android option gave some users the choice between 'Audio Call' and 'Video Call'. However, the new feature has been removed.
An international team of researchers led by the University of Southern California, found 74 genes which were related to a person's level of education (stock image).
Climate data released by Nasa has confirmed that last month was the hottest April on record (illustrated). The US space agency showed global temperatures were 1.11C higher than average.
Researchers from the University of Houston asked volunteers to drive under 'normal conditions', while being 'absent-minded', while feeling emotional and while texting. Stock image.
At $100million each, F-35 stealth fighters are among most expensive military planes in history, but they have been plagued with problems during development and testing.
New ideas presented by Luwian Studies propose a scenario that could explain the fall of the Bronze Age around 1200 BC, and the events leading up to the Trojan War.
A statement issued by the Australian National University said 'the world's oldest hafted axe' - one with a handle - had been found in Western Australia. But these claims have now been called into question.
Samuel Perry, of the University of Oklahoma said people who watch porn more than once a week tend to become more religious. Stock image.
A new study, led by researchers at University College London, have identified four genes that control the shape of our noses and help to explain why they can vary so much between populations.
They say that children are smarter than you think, but now it turns out they are rather good at lying too. Parents probably do not know it when their children are fibbing to them, a study has found.
Xiaomi announced a new smartphone with a 6.44-inch display. Dubbed Mi Max, the new smartphone has a sleek, all metal ultra-slim design and will launch in China next week, starting at $229.
Researchers from London's Imperial College Business School, found lower income US neighbourhoods have worse mobile phone coverage than wealthier areas (map pictured).
Anthropologists have discovered stone tools and extinct animals bones in an underwater sink hole under the Aucilla River, near Tallahasse in Florida, which have been dated to 14,550 years ago.
The Mountain View-based firm said the desktop version of WhatsApp (stock image) will bring more functionality and will sync with the mobile app to keep users updated.
This new image, released by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, shows the changes in shape of the 'F' ring, caused by the gravity of its neighbouring moons Prometheus and Pandora.
Researchers in Austria and Hungary used lasers to measure tree movements and found their branches dropped by up to four inches during the night before rising again in the morning.
Apple unveiled its new Apple Store design in San Francisco's Union Square Thursday. And it's really something, with bold design choices that will dazzle and baffle in equal measure.
The new study, led by researchers at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, showed that the healthiest measurement has increased by 3.3 BMI points since the 1970s.
Research by retail analysts Mintel found that on virtually every question, women were more likely to report having suffered various ailments than their male counterparts.
The Californian web giant said its Tilt Brush VR app enables users to paint in their own virtual studios and create 3D works of art within a virtual world (pictured).
The space station (pictured) passed a significant milestone in its lifetime this week, completing its 100,000th orbit around Earth.
Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, said a hormone called ghrelin that's produced in anticipation of a meal, has a negative effect on decision making.
An international group of scientists, comprising the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the US, made the predictions based on measurements of Totten Glacier in the Antarctic (pictured).
A Slimming World poll of more than 1,200 British dieters revealed the men and women to have been in denial for an average of five years and seven months, piling on the piles in the meantime.
Russia is preparing to test a nuclear missile which is so advanced it could get past Nato defences and destroy a huge area within seconds of launching. The RS-28 Sarmat will be deployed in 2018.
Researchers at the University of Lancaster were inspired to design the bizarre looking 'emotion detector' (pictured) by the Voight-Kampff machine in Blade Runner.
Researchers from the Australian National University have said the axe (pictured) dates to between 46,000 and 49,000 years ago, shortly after people first arrived in Australia.
Palaeontologists at the Natural History Museum in London have found that the Stegosaurus, which had huge spiked tails and armoured plates on their backs, had a bite similar to modern herbivores.
The Australian government needs to commit a total of $10 billion over the next 10 years if they want to save the Great Barrier Reef from the effects of climate change, say scientists.
Astronaut Jeff Williams is lucky enough to enjoy the beauty of 16 sunrises a day from the International Space Station. He tweeted out the 33-second clip on Friday - and it quickly went viral.
Dr Jacqueline Boyd, a lecturer in animal science at Nottingham Trent University, has explained just how dogs like Pero (pictured) can navigate long distances in an article for The Conversation.
The eight technology projects are part of Nasa's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, with each receiving as much as $500,000 for a two-year study.
The social network has never specified how trending articles are selected, but long implied it was generated by an impartial algorithm.
The South Downs National Park in England has been named as the world's newest 'international dark sky reserve' that will see the area protected from light pollution to enable better star gazing.
Botox makes a person unable to replicate expressions they observe, and blocking this subtle response can make it difficult to understand the emotional meaning, a SISSA study found.
Sundar Pichai took to the stage at a giant outdoor amphitheatre holding 7,000 next to Google's Silicon Valley HQ to unveil a raft of new products including a smart speaker and messaging app.
Researchers from James Cook University in Queensland and Uppsala University in Sweden have found that coral bleaching (pictured) can have dramatic repercussions for small fish.
A massive 65,000-pound space shuttle external propellant tank is moving through the streets of Los Angeles to join a display of the retired orbiter Endeavour at the California Science Center.
Geneticists, including scientists at the University of Uppsala, have found the first DNA evidence supporting theories that Stone Age farmers migrated back from Europe 3,000 years ago.
Apple's latest patent describes an integrated iPad case. Images show it could display notifications or media controls for watching movies and transform into a Wacom-style drawing pad.
The University of Maryland in College Park found keeping secrets causes people to become more social than normal. It also changes the types of words they use in messages.
The bright flash spotted in Portland, Maine - but visible from several states early Tuesday - was apparently left by a meteor burning up as it passed through the earth's atmosphere.
Siri CEO and co-founder Dag Kittlaus gave a live demonstration today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, revealing Viv's ability to handle complex questions through natural conversation.
The survey of 2,000 British adults for London-based juice company Innocent, said 30 per cent of those polled check their phone at least every 30 minutes.
UCLA has developed an optical clock that measures intervals to 270 quintillionths of a second. Measuring just 1 cubic centimeter, the system is small enough to fit in the traditional silicon chip.
Researchers from Auto Insurance Center tapped into social media to understand drivers' frustrations across the US. They found Hawaii was the state most prone to road rage.
There's fear the growing wildfire could double in size and reach a major oil sands mine and even the neighboring province of Saskatchewan.
Scientists in Massachusetts said all potential volatile molecules should be considered as possible signs of life, instead of the few that can be seen in Earth's atmosphere.
NOAA forecasters say the major overhaul of their system dramatically improves the accuracy of their forecasts, and allows them to see hourly forecasts for the next five days.
Ripplebuds, designed by South Korean electronic engineer Dusik Shin, are set to ship in September and will be available to buy for $129 (£89) for the mono version or $179 (£125) for stereo model.
The grey shape (circled) is seen emerging from the left and walking calmly across the tarmac, seemingly unaware of any human presence. The footage was filmed at an unknown location.
Palaeontologists led by the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa have identified a new species of spiky headed dinosaur (illustrated).
A group of scientists in Pittsburgh, US, have discovered how the cells in our nose work together to smell, and they think the process is surprisingly simple.
Developed by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, SkinTrack uses a ring that generates electrical signals along with a sensing band attached to a watch.
Aalto University in Finland made the discovery after compared the performance of gamers using touchscreens, and others using buttons, when playing games that require accurate timing.
Experts say the artifacts are proof Washington's army made camp there for several months in the winter of 1777, a year before reaching their well-known refuge at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
One of our closest black holes began a short but intense outburst after 25 years of silence last summer, and physicists used a telescope in the Canary Islands to watch it.
According to a recent study Netflix conducted and published on their blog, the company explains how it has designed the thumbnails of shows to appeal to viewers.
The firm will provide a grant of $800,000 to a partnership including Gavi, a group providing vaccines to poor countries, and Zipline International for drone flights in Rwanda starting in August.
A US judge in Illinois rejected a request by Facebook to toss out a civil suit accusing it of violating privacy with face-recognition software to help 'tag' people in pictures.
Scientists at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona have found four fragments of RNA that appear to be specific to humans and may have shaped how our species evolved. Stock image.
IBM's voice-recognition AI ROSS,' powered by the Watson supercomputer, has just landed a position at New York law firm Baker & Hostetler handling the firm's bankruptcy practice.
After analysing variations in the depth of the ocean floor (plotted), researchers from the University of Cambridge were able to reconstruct the mantle's movements.
Political prisoner Eustache Dauger's 30-year stay in French prisons has finally been explained by Paul Sonnino, a professor of history at the University of California.
Scientists from the University of Washington are testing the effects of a drug called rapamycin on dogs to see if it will slow down the aging process. So far, dogs have shown improved heart function.
Scientists from Dartmouth College used brain scans (pictured left) to monitor if it is possible for us to be able to let go of negative memories.
Nasa's video shows several different views of the Mercury transit from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which was launched in 2010 to study the sun's solar atmosphere.
The 'state of the world's plants' report by the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew in London reveals 2,034 new species of plant were found in 2015. The sundew found via Facebook is shown.
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 -- without human contact.
An international team of researchers, led by has made a 3D map (pictured) of 3,000 galaxies 13 billion light years from Earth, and found that Einstein's general theory of relativity is still valid.
A KFC store in Shanghai, China is adding a modern twist to its traditional brand. Patrons can order fried chicken from Dumi, a voice activated robot that is smart enough to handle order changes.
A team based in the US have demonstrated two separate meteorites caused tsunamis on Mars 3.4 billion years ago, cearing waves reaching as high as 120 metres (394ft) on the planet.
Researchers found the chemicals in exhaled breath match human emotion. The team used measurements to tell people's reaction to films and types of scene showing on the screen.
SpaceX has managed to land three rockets from space back on Earth - two on sea and one on land. Now, Hangar 39A at Cape Canaveral in Florida is filling up with a collection of Falcon 9 boosters.
The Amazon Video Direct tool (pictured) is included in the Washington-based firm's Prime Video at no additional charge.
A space company in Atlanta is working on a space habitat (pictured) for putting humans into a state of deep sleep, and Nasa has just awarded the project $500,000 (£350,000) to take it to the next stage.
A team at Stanford University in California used phone metadata to join the dots and identify key information about the phone's user (stock image).
For the past few months, California-based Google has been feeding novels to a neural network with the hopes of improving its conversation abilities, now a selection of its poems have been published.
US-based researchers designed a two-week experimental study to investigate the extent to which phones intrude on people's lives, and found one in ten people check their phone during sex.
Opera Software, based in Norway, claims its new version of its browser for laptops has a 'power save mode' that can reduce the drain it has on batteries compared to Google Chrome.
Experts at MIT and Oxford University say far fewer locations than expected were needed. They warn it is 'extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge' to find out where you are.
Biologists at the University of Nebrasca-Lincoln have found the ogre-faced spider Deinopis spinosa uses its enlarged eyes to help it pinpoint its insect prey on the ground at night.
Led by the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, the project set out to finish the work which Turing started before his death in 1954 based on sunflowers (illustrated).
The landmark discovery was made by experts at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge who examined a wooden coffin donated to it by archaeologists in 1907.
The South Korean tech giant has filed patent for a patent for a smartwatch that projects a 'screen' onto a user's hand and forearm, giving them more space to use apps, for example.
The study by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts was originally aiming to track down dust associated with a possible planetary collision.
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.
A debate has erupted over the correct answer to the problem, which reads: 9 - 3 ÷ 1/3 + 1. It originally went viral in Japan, where it emerged that only 60 per cent of adults could get the right answer.
The study by Vanderbilt University in Nashville found that the observations of KIC 8462852 were tainted by the inconsistent use of telescopes on Earth.
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