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A tiny, invasive whitefly that is resistant to pesticides and carries crop-devastating viruses has been found outdoors in the United States for the first tim...

WELT is a $69 smart belt packed with sensors and a pedometer to monitor users' waistline. Unlike other fitness trackers, this Samsung backed device tracks user's waistline, activity and eating habits.

The Icelandic Met Office has issued an alert after finding earthquake activity within the caldera of the Katla volcano was at four times higher than normal. Pictured: The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in 2010.

Nasa has set up a global portal where the public can find Nasa-funded research articles. Topics include how to survive a day on Mars, how planets form and if there is life on Titan.

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University found that girls aged between 6 and 8-years-old became less satisfied in their own bodies after playing with a skinny Barbie than fuller figure dolls (stock image used)

The two Irish wolfhound puppies, who were part of a litter of seven, are genetically identical and were attached to the same placenta when they were born in South Africa.

Researchers at the Boxer Wachler Vision Institute in Los Angeles found that side windows of some Mercedes and BMW models blocked less than 60 per cent of UVA.

MIT has built a robot that works in sewers, where it sifts through human waste to find data. Called Luigi, this 'poopbot' sucks up waste and traps bacteria so researchers can study urban health patterns.

The American-built, Canadian-owned sloop Washington sank in in deep water off Oswego on Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago during an 1803 storm.

The findings were compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Hawaii.

Scientists at the University of California San Diego discovered 48 previously unidentified aftershocks that occurred between 2004 and 2015, within seconds to minutes after magnitude 7 to 8 earthquakes.

An atmospheric scientist from the University of Reading has created a new visualization to show how a trip from New York to London changes with each day,

The six-passenger, two-pilot winged space plane, designed to take passengers on five-minute voyages into suborbital space, reaching altitudes of about 62 miles (100 km), was tested in the Mojave desert yesterday.

Many U.S. medical schools are seeing a surge in the number of people leaving their bodies to science, a trend attributed to rising funeral costs.

Adelaide researchers can now help women undergoing IVF get pregnant quicker after they successfully trialled a technique which allows an embryologist to simply analyse photos (above).

Metal detector enthusiast David Blakey, 57, stumbled across the valuable haul of coins, during an early morning session in Wold Newton, East Yorkshire.

Washington researchers found divorce rates consistently peaked in March and August, the periods following winter and summer holidays.

The Aladin instrument, which was designed by Airbus in France, incorporates two powerful lasers, a large telescope and sensitive receivers. It will be used to make maps of Earth's winds.

Five thousand robots are gearing up to 3D map 35m galaxies. Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will use these 10-in-long bots to learn how dark energy is expanding our universe.

A revolutionary technology could see the end of people leaving forgotten clothes gathering dust in wardrobes - because the garments will send messages if they haven't been worm in a while.

The group finally came out of their dome on Mauna Loa volcano, 8,500 feet above sea level in Hawaii, as their mission ended Sunday (pictured). The dome replicated living conditions on Mars.

Samsung's next smartwatch will come with GPS capabilities and the ability to call or text for help by triple-tapping a side button.

A parasitic wasp in Finland has been found to use jumping spiders as a living host for their eggs, paralyzing them with venom and stitching them into a nest made from the spider's own silk.

The Cochno Stone (pictured) has spent 50 years buried on the outskirts of a tatty housing estate near Clydebank, Scotland, but is one of Europe's most important prehistoric artworks.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut took inspiration from the sea creatures to produce materials for use in anti-glare screens and spy-like encryption methods.

Archaeologists unearthed the grave of a noblewoman though tto belong to the mysterious Okunev culture. She was found clutching the skeleton of a child and surrounded by carvings.

Wyp Aviation has completed its first manned test in a wind tunnel in Ontario, Canada. The vision is for thrill-seekers to be towed by a plane and 'surf' behind it as if riding a wakeboard.

LG has unveiled the first phone to ship with Google's new Android Nougat software, in hopes of appealing to people who like to take and share photos and video.

The Army Research Laboratory has shown off a prototype of its 'hoverbike,' a rectangular shaped quadcopter that has been named the Joint Tactical Aerial Resupply Vehicle, or JTARV.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy cluster ever observed, glimpsing a stage of evolution that's never been seen before. The cluster is roughly 11.1 billion light-years away.

This Black Mamba has just as much venom as the snake. Designed by Silex Powers, Valene Black Mamba features in-hub electric motors that help it go from 0 to 62 mph km/h in less than 4.2 seconds.

EXCLUSIVE: British engineers at Airbus in Farnborough, came up with the radical design. It flies by day on solar power which also recharges its lithium-sulphur batteries to power it by night.

In an image featured on Playbuzz, the eagle-eyed are being asked to spot the moggy in this messy rubbish dump picture. But how long will it take you to find it?

The researchers visited lava flows in a section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, north of Iceland, called the North Kolbeinsey Ridge, using a deep-sea torpedo robot.

The Smithsonian revealed the stunning high resolution 3D model to mark the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission.

The Internet retail giant has built a high wall of hay bales to hide its secret drone testing area in a field around five miles east of its research and development centre in Cambridge.

A study of 20 bodies found in a mass grave at Liverpool Street, London, during construction of a new station, has proved the bacteria Yersinia pestis was behind the 1665 plague deaths.

Stunning timelapse footage captured by the ISS shows the calm eye of Hurricanes Lester, Madeline and Gaston - two of which were seen over the Pacific Ocean and one over the Atlantic.

New Yorkers will soon get a whiff of 'rotting flesh' at the New York Botanical Garden. A corpse flower is set to bloom this week and release a stink for 24 to 36hrs, which has been 10 years in the making.

The clay hand grenade, which is shaped like an acorn with a fuse hole in the top, was found as part of a collection of metal jugs and candle sticks pulled from the sea off Hadera in north Israel.

Researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, at the University of California at Santa Cruz, modelled the movement of material that had been ejected during previous impacts.

Insta-famous model Lil Miquela has sent her 65,000 fans into frenzy as they debate whether her doll-like features are real or if she's actually computer game character.

The dwarf planet Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt, orbiting the sun beyond Mars. The latest findings reveal the extent of its internal processes and surface formations (pictured).

Astronomers using a telescopes on Hawaii have discovered a new minor planet with a weird tilted orbit they have called Niku, which they believe may have been bumped by a yet to be found planet.

The 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil was transported from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Amsterdam's Schiphol International Airport by Dutch airline KLM.

The two new species - Gumardee springae (skull shown) and Gumardee richi - were discovered from fossils found in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area of Queensland.

LeEco has revealed its ‘game-changing’ Super Bike, a rideable smart device equipped with an array of safety and security features, including laser lane markers and fingerprint identification.

Colorado-based Space Systems, a division of Lockheed Martin, spoke to MailOnline about its plans to uncover the subterranean structure of the red planet using meteorite impacts.

This African scops owl flaunted its camouflage skills at And Beyond's Ngala Safari Lodge in northeastern South Africa where it was said to be sitting as still as a statue blending in to its habitat.

The exhibition, supported by technology firm Siemens, will be showcased for five weeks at The Crystal in the Royal Victoria Docks, London from September 14 before going on a UK tour.

Japan-based Capcom, said that nausea when playing Resident Evil would go away with time, as familiarity gained by players can help them become more accustomed to immersion.

EXCLUSIVE: A theoretical physicist working at CERN, headquartered in Geneva, told MailOnline the official results will be revealed at the end of next week, but that the additional tests did not find the 750GeV particle.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their plan for a next generation fusion device in a paper published in the journal Nuclear Fusion.

The discovery comes a few weeks before the European Space Agency plans to crash Rosetta on to the comet end its mission.

Researchers led by the University of Copenhagen discovered the Greenland shark, which hunts in the North Atlantic, has a life expectancy of at least 272 years but can live to up to 392-years-old.

While the photos captured by Cassini show this from a great distance, Gill's renditions reveal a close-up look at the effects of a tiny moon on the Keeler Gap, as it induces a wavy pattern along the edge.

The photographs capture the storm from the unique perspective of an plane window. They were captured at an altitude of 37,000 feet, as the plane travelled from North America to Ecuador.

The 32-foot (10 metre) long asteroid passed by at a distance of one tenth of the distance between Earth and the moon, according to data from Washington-headquartered Nasa.

The Quantum Tron craft, boasts a top speed of 80 kilometers an hour,and a 160 kilometer range, and can switch from quadcopter in mid air - and even work as a glider.

The remains of 115 dogs were found at a site called Ust-Polui, which is in a town called Salekhard in Russia's Arctic circle. Dog graveyards have been found before but none this large.

The mark was thought to be droppings from a bird, as Edvard Munch often worked outside. However, researchers from the University of Antwerp have now analysed the mark to unveil the true source.

The rocket was due to launch Amos-6,Facebook's first satellite, which has been in development since 2015, and would have provided large parts of East, West and South Africa with web access.

The U.S. Air Force has declared an initial squadron of Lockheed Martin Corp F-35A fighter jets ready for combat, a move experts slammed as a publicity stunt.

The images from the Cassini craft reveal a close-up look at the ‘frigid alien landscape,’ from hundreds of sand dunes to the rugged mountainous areas of what could be the Titan’s oldest terrain.

Thomas Gostelow, an inventor from Chorlton, claims to have designed the world's first fine china heated smart mug. He now hopes to raise money through a Kickstarter funding campaign.

Facebook will soon 'see' objects in a photo just like humans. The three step process consists of algorithms piecing the image together, outlining shapes of objects and then accurately labeling them.

Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, has mapped global temperature changes dating back to 1850. The side-by-side view reveals a warming planet.

The US rail operator has awarded a $2.0 billion deal to French manufacturer Alstom to supply new trains for its key Acela service between Washington, New York and Boston.

Europe's glaciers have lost about two thirds of their volume since 1850, but last year the Hornkees glacier in the Austrian Alps retreated by 446 feet while Pasterze glacier retreated by 177 feet.

More than 50 years ago, Nasa looked to a life-size android to test spacesuits. But due to oil leaks, it never completed the mission. Now, the rejected robot is being auctioned off starting at $80k.

Geologists have discovered conical structures known as stromatolites on a rocky outcrop in Isua, southwest Greenland, that are the oldest fossils to be found in the world.

Mercedes-Benz and drone startup Matternet joined forces to create the 'Vision Van'. This futuristic vehicle acts as a launch and landing pad for delivery drones that can carry 4.4lbs and fly for 12 miles.