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Elon Musk unveils radical interplanetary transport system to 'make humans a multiplanetary

The Interplanetary Transport System will have a giant shuttle capable of carrying dozens of passenger to the Red Planet. It will launch from Earth on a giant version of SpaceX's reusable rocket booster, unfurling solar sails to power its journey to the red planet. Once there, colonists will be able to begin the task of setting up a colony.

Uber is making a drive into meal delivery, backed by a wave of staff recruitment, with the U.S. tech heavyweight gearing up to enter at least 22 new countries and take on local rivals.

Like all humans, five-month-old Abrahim Hassan carries DNA from both his parents. But he also has a tiny piece of genetic code from a donor. He was engineered by a US team in Mexico.

Researchers from the European Southern Observatory in Munich have now identified a large portion of the Milky Way galaxy, including 54 filaments of gas or 'galactic bones' .

In a new book, 'How to Make a Spaceship', the University of Cambridge physicist has warned our planet is becoming a dangerous place because of the threat of war or disease.

Virginia Senator Mark Warner asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate whether Yahoo fulfilled obligations to inform investors and the public about the hacking.

A woman wearing a face mask during a yellow alert for air pollution in Beijing on March 18, 2016 ©Fred Dufour (AFP/File)

Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, calling for dramatic action.

Archaeologists unearthed the pub (pictured) on the site of a skyscraper due to be built in Manchester city center. The Astley Arms dates back to 1821 when it was run by the landlord Thomas Evans.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University used simulations to recreate mixing seen in a layer of iron, other elements above the core, believed to be a 'smoking gun' of the collision (illustrated).

Creepy 3D printed human replica could train future surgeons

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have created a life-like 3D printed human body (pictured left and bottom right)) using CT scans of real organs (pictured top right). The patient's lungs can inflate and deflate as if it is 'breathing' while its face even has stubble. Artificial blood can be pumped around blood vessels to mimic blood loss during an operation. The 3D printed patient will be used to train military and civilian surgeons.

The self-driving system, which is similar to the kind used in Nissan's autonomous vehicle technology, will be tested at select restaurants in Japan next year, Nissan said.

The research, led by Dr Terry Gates from the North Carolina State University, found heavier dinosaurs were more likely to develop structures on their craniums than their smaller counterparts.

The idea for Google came about in 1996 after Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford. The firm was founded in 1998, and since 2006, has celebrated its birthday on 27 September.

Researchers from the University of Montreal and the Carnegie Institution of Washington found four unusually low-mass objects surrounded by disks of gas and dust, where planets are forming.

The team, led by astronomers at the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, believes that the bright x-ray source NG3 7793 P13 is a binary star system (illustrated), orbiting every 64 days.

A team at the University of Minnesota used skin cells taken from sheep and grew them in a specialised tube system, prompting them to develop into connective tissue, ready for transplant (pictured).

A team led by Liverpool John Moores University studied the tracks left by the fish (pictured) as they scrambled awkwardly across a soft surface, resembling tracks from animals with feet.

Researchers from the Universities of York, Sheffield and Copenhagen analysed and tracked ostrich egg fossils from sites in both Tanzania and South Africa.

As if sharks aren't scary enough! Rare predator with 'human face' (and glasses) freaks out customers at fish market

Amazed customers at a fish market in Turkey were lining up to take selfies with the thresher shark after it was caught in the Mediterranean after running off course due to weather conditions. The endangered species - also known as a fox shark - has unusual markings on its underside that give it a human-like face - which the fishmonger accentuated by placing a pair of glasses on it.

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The radical reaction engine to be tested: 'Fighter jet' sized 4,000mph engine that could

Plans for a revolutionary hypersonic propulsion system have now taken a big step toward the construction of a ground demonstrator – but at roughly a quarter the size of the original vision. Reaction Engines Ltd has scaled back its design for the Sabre engine to bring about a demonstrator that is more affordable and better suited to early applications, including a potential X-plane. The Oxfordshire-based firm has been developing a turbine that combines both jet and rocket technologies to achieve rates five times the speed of sound, to fly anywhere in the world in just four hours. In the new plans for the Sabre demonstrator, researchers will target a smaller engine similar in size to the F135 engine for the F-35 joint Strike Fighter (pictured).

The Rest Test, led by researchers from Durham University, involved more than 18,000 people from 134 different countries to investigate their resting habits and attitudes towards relaxation.

Rishi Loatey, of the British Chiropractic Association, which commissioned the research, also suggested that women may suffer from carrying heavy handbags.

Researchers at University College Dublin say the extra generosity is a ‘status display’ designed to make a man with high testosterone seem more impressive among his peers.

Dr Chopik, of Michigan State University, tracked the health and happiness of almost 2,000 couples for six years. Analysis showed that a partner's happiness affected their other half's health.

A fireball is believed to have crashed into the ocean just off the coast of central Queensland on Monday night, after thousands of residents reported a bright flash blazing across the sky (stock image).

A Japanese smartphone app has been developed which offers motorists a free coffee if they leave their smartphones face down while travelling distances of more than 60 miles.

When large data sets include social bias, machines learn that too, explains James Zou, Assistant Professor for Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University.

Called the V-247 Vigilant,Bell says it will 'combine the vertical lift capability of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional fixed-wing aircraft'.

A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, analysed how the ear bones of Neanderthals and modern humans function.

Through X-ray analysis of a purse found alongside the body, researchers have determined that the man may have been a traveling merchant buried in haste after death from disease or even murder.

Scientists at Princeton University using ice core samples to test the concentration of atmospheric oxygen have found levels have dropped by almost 0.7 per cent, over thousands of years.

'Lost' street of secret tunnels and tiny homes is discovered beneath Stockton-on-Tees

The mysterious discovery was made during a £1m refurbishment of a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. An old larder can still be seen in the underground homes (top right), which date back more than 200 years, while wooden window and door frames remain intact. It is believed the tunnels leading from the underground homes, which may have been occupied by domestic staff, led to other parts of Stockton.

Ikea, the Swedish furniture manufacturer, has unveiled a new range of 'smart' light bulbs that can be dimmed and turned on or off wirelessly using a remote control. They will go on sale in April.

Researchers from the University of Toronto created the world's first map showing how genes in a cell interact (pictured), paving the way for a new way to study how genes contribute to diseases.

Genetic analysis has revealed that tunas and lamnid sharks – the group which includes great whites (pictured) – have evolved similar physiological and genetic traits to help them hunt.

The crash occurred in Mountain View, California, when a van driver ran a red light and collided with the passenger side door of Google's modified Lexus SUV though luckily no one was hurt.

SpaceX performed the first test fire of its new Raptor 'interplanetary transport engines', which will be used to propel astronauts to Mars and beyond into the Solar System, at a test facility in Texas.

Glasgow University researchers conducted hour-long interviews with 2,300 Britons to establish the state of the nation’s love life. The findings reveal changing attitudes to sex.

At a conference in Nantucket, Uber's head of products revealed the company is looking into vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) technology in order to reduce traffic and commuting times in cities.

The researchers, from the University of Rochester in New York, described the new ant species in a paper published in the open access journal ZooKeys. It was found in the vomit of the 'little devil' frog.

World's largest radio telescope starts operating in China

China's Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), nestled between hills in the mountainous region of Guizhou (pictured) began working this week. Construction of FAST began in 2011, and local officials relocated nearly 10,000 people living within five kilometres (three miles) to create a quieter environment for monitoring.

The 'Real-Time ID Check' feature has been piloted in some US cities over the last few months, in which time some mismatches occurred, mostly due to unclear profile photos, says Uber.

Greenland's highly unstable ice sheet is melting more than seven percent faster than previously thought, a study in Science Advances revealed ©Jeremy Harbeck (NASA Goddard/AFP/File)

Accommodating up to 200 soldiers, 'Camp Century' was officially built to provide a laboratory for Arctic research projects, but it was also home to a secret US effort to deploy nuclear missiles.

Baby lobsters might not be able to survive in the ocean's waters if the ocean continues to warm at the expected rate. That is the key finding of a study performed by scientists in Maine.

The California Energy Commission is investing $2m to study whether piezoelectric crystals can be used to produce electricity from passing cars.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife have announced they are going to heal the world and make it a better place. Looking like two humanoids from a snazzy Artificial Intelligence launch.

Twitter has yet to post a profit even after ramping up advertising efforts ©Andrew Burton (Getty/AFP/File)

The Walt Disney Company is evaluating a potential bid for Twitter, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

SpaceX says a breach in the helium cooling system of the upper oxygen tank of its Falcon 9 rocket may have been behind the explosion that destroyed it on the launch pad earlier this month.

Researchers travelled to Greenland, where they found fossil specimens of Pambdelurion, an extinct relative of modern arthropods, which lived in the oceans 520 million years ago.

Mercury is ACTIVE! Images reveal planet is shrinking due to tectonic activity

A series of cliff-like landforms discovered on the surface of Mercury suggest it is tectonically active, shrinking as the planet’s interior slowly cools. While Earth was previously thought to be the only planet which currently hosts these processes, scientists are now saying this is not the case. Images captured by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft have revealed a number of ‘fault scarps’ much smaller than those seen in earlier observations, suggesting these structures are geologically young.

Although the amounts of precious metals used in electronic devices is tiny, organisers believe there may be enough locked up in Japan's scrap to produce the medals for the 2020 Games.

Researchers at Princeton University, the University of Rochester, and the University of Chicago, attribute up to one-third of the decline in working hours to technology-based entertainment.

According to the research, sex releases a 'love hormone' oxytocin not only promotes social bonding, altruism but also spirituality and belief in God - especially among men.

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential candidate and former governor of New Mexico, said that the future of the human race will depend upon learning to inhabit other planets.

A report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) put Africa's total elephant population at around 415,000, a decline of around 111,000 over the past decade ©Tony Karumba (AFP/File)

A booming illegal wildlife trade has put huge pressure on an existing treaty signed by more than 180 countries. Experts have now gathered in Johannesburg to align international regulations.

To prevent the red wolf from going extinct, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has shelled out about $35million since granting protection in 1967. Out in the wild, there are 29 red wolves.

Google's 'Show and Tell' algorithm can now describe images with nearly 94 percent accuracy and may even 'understand' the context and deeper meaning of a scene, the firm says.

Nasa has been dreaming about Mars for 40 years and this week Congress made a commitment to make it happen. A new bill gives $19.5b towards a crewed mission that must happen within 25 years

Jeff Bezos takes aim at Elon Musk by tweeting first images of model 'megarocket'

Bezos has revealed the latest progress on the project with a series of wind tunnel pictures showing the 'New Glenn' in different configurations, taking a leaf out of Elon Musk's book. It came just five hours after Elon Musk boasted of SpaceX success testing an interplanetary motor that coulod one day take man to Mars.

University of Canterbury alumni composer Jason Long (L) and professor Jack Copeland pose for a photo in Christchurch, on September 6, 2016 ©- (University of Canterbury/AFP/File)

Researchers at the University of Canterbury (UC) in Christchurch said the recording showed Turing, known as the father of computing who broke the WWII Enigma code, was also a musical innovator.

The trio are funding an ambitious $100 million (£76 million) project known as 'Breakthrough Listen', which will listen for signals from ET on Proxima b, a rocky planet that is just four light years away.

It is believed that Apple is developing its own Echo-like device. Now, Bloomberg reveals the Siri-driven device has left the research and development lab and entered prototype testing.

Emergency services face a surge of alerts when all cars and trucks are fitted with new technology - called eCall - which automatically calls 999 if a vehicle is involved in a crash.

Both resistant and non-resistant bacteria are able to reach the freshwater ecosystem, which is used in agriculture. Meaning it could end up in our food, UN researcher Serena Caucci warns.

Scientists led by Oxford University have put forward evidence to support the hypothesis that high oxygen levels in oceans were crucial for the emergence of skeletal animals.

Foraging for fungi in the New Forest has been outlawed after commercial pickers flouted rules to protect the 'fragile ecosystem' that limited how much could be taken.

The elevator will allow vessels to pass the dam across the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, central China. The 550ft-high structure is able to lift vessels carrying a weight of up to 3,000 tonnes.

A trip they'll NEVER forget! Watch prankster taxi driver terrify passengers when he drives in 'insane mode' and falls asleep at the wheel  

Californian prankster Josh Paler Lin left passengers terrified when he dressed up as an old man and nodded off at the wheel... without telling them the Tesla had an auto pilot function. Other tactics to scare the 'victims' include turning around to look at iPod playing porn and getting 'stuck' between the seats and also bending down to get a bottle of water.

The hacker snatched risque photos of his victims, who were all from the Lanarkshire area of Scotland and aged between 19-27, before sharing them on Facebook.

A cave explosion during construction work at the Belo Monte dam in Altamira in Para Brazil left workers frightened. But they got a bigger scare when a giant 400kg, 10 metre snake emerged.

One of the world's largest package delivery firms is stepping up efforts to integrate drones into its system. UPS began testing drones this week with a focus of bringing packages to remote locations.

Researchers have observed five lionesses at the Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango delta that act like males, scent-marking at a similar frequency, and even mounting other females.

Gordon Rugg of Keele University claims to have created a simple system that can reproduce nonsensical test similar to that in the ancient tome, suggesting it's not a secret code at all.

Approximately 500,000 potentially dangerous Samsung Galaxy Note 7 handsets have now been replaced with non-exploding versions through Samsung's recall program in the US.

Dr Travis Rieder, a moral philosophy professor and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, explains why the key to stopping climate change is reducing the number of babies born each year (stock image)

Nasa is due to make a major announcement concerning Jupiter's sixth largest moon Europa in a live stream on Monday, which will include new images from the Hubble space telescope.

Snapchat is to launch £100 sunglasses with built-in video camera for users to film 10

The company, which is renaming itself Snap Inc as it expands beyond the popular messaging app, says the new gadgets - simply called Spectacles (pictured) - will be on sale by the end of the year. Cameras mounted within the frame (pictured inset) take short clips of 10 seconds and they can be uploaded wirelessly over Bluetooth or wifi. Chief executive Evan Spiegel tested a prototype while on holiday with supermodel fiancee Miranda Kerr.

The Samsung Note 2 is said to have caught fire on the IndiGo flight from Singapore to Chennai this morning as it was preparing to land with the phone in the overhead lockers.

In a video filmed in San Francisco, two people suggested shaking the phone, while another admitted he would give up. Only at the end are baffled users shown how to do it.

Created by Professor Eric Schwitzgebel, from the University of California, the quiz looks at someone's levels of 'jerkitude' by assessing how they react to situations. David Brent is likely to score highly.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed a technique that will allow them to distinguish pigments in fossil feathers and reveal what colour feathered dinosaurs once were.

A Mumsnet user revealed her discovery that she could clean her oven in just five minutes using a dishwasher tablet on the popular site - but her method wasn't so successful for everyone.

A British man who lived as a goat using prosthetics is among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes for scientific research, which were awarded at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Astronomers at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, spotted the strange star system 8,000 light years away from Earth using the Hubble Space Telescope.

Sono Motors, a car company based in Munich expects their Sion car to hit the roads by 2018, although that depends on their crowdfunding project to build the car, which is currently a prototype.

Scientists recreate Ötzi’s vocal tract to uncover the sound of Stone Age vowels

He met a violent end 5,300 years ago in the Austrian Alps, but the voice of Ötzi the Iceman can now be heard from beyond the grave. Scientists have digitally replicated the 'best approximation' of his voice using CT scans (left) that allowed them to repositioned and recreated the mummy's vocal cords, throat and mouth. The short clip reveals the sound of Stone Age vowels and the team predicts Ötzi's voice was inline with today's man.

Archaeologists have analysed 22 skeletons (pictured) unearthed from a Roman cemetery in Southwark, London. Two of the skeletons appear to be from Asia while four were from Africa.

Speaking on Twitter, security expert Edward Snowden, who is currently based in Moscow, claims that the app records every message you ever send and could make them available to police.

The fossilised skull of the reptile, named Triopticus primus, was dug up in Big Spring, Texas in 1940 and has now been described. The reptile lived in the Triassic Period about 228 million years ago.

Even when you quit smoking, carcinogens from tobacco remain embedded in sofas, wall, carpets and even people long after, according to a study by San Diego State University.

EXCLUSIVE: Staying friends with an ex-lover may be the civilised thing to do - but it could spell the death knell for a new relationship the South Florida University study found.

Purdue researchers have solved the mystery of the terrible tasting greenhouse tomatoes. The team found a lack of ultraviolet (UV) light stresses plants and alters their flavor. But artificial UV light can fix it.

Dermatologists have advised against using a loofah as dead skin cells become trapped in the sponge helping them to harbour bacteria, mould and yeast.

Stephen Hawking warns we should be very wary about answering alien signals. He says it could be similar to when the Native Americans first encountered Christopher Columbus.

Tick tock truck: Giant clock at a deserted airfield is made up of 14 LORRIES driving in a circle

The bizarre clock (main picture) was created by Swedish vehicle firm Scania in an unknown location and relied on a carefully choreographed routine in order for the 90 drivers to keep it 'ticking' for a full 24 hours. Comprising 14 lorries (pictured inset), along with 90 drivers, the huge clock face was created on a deserted air field, on a site measuring 750,000 square feet (70,000 square metres).

Every hour less of sleep at age 11 was associated with a 20 per cent acceleration to the first use of alcohol and cannabis, according to the study by the University of Pittsburgh.

The new research from the Adam Smith Institute in London says heavy-handed EU and UK laws have held back the development of safer alternatives to drinking and smoking.

New data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed people are financially better off and crime rates are down. But more people said they are lonely and unhappy in relationships.

Researchers from Mastercard and Ipsos MORI suggest that 12 per cent of British workers either never or hardly eve take a lunch break, while 66 per cent don't leave their workplace to eat.

Astronomers used the ALMA radio telescope in Chile to stare at a patch of sky previously imaged by the Hubble Ultra Deep Field images, revealing gas rich regions primed to begin producing stars.

In this photo provided by Michael Bevis, The Ohio State University, the Greenland Global Positioning System (GPS) Network (GNET) in Greenland. Greenland is losing about 40 trillion pounds more ice a year than scientists had thought, according to a new study that uses GPS to help estimate how much is melting there. A team of scientists used all sorts of devices to measure how much the ground is uplifting under Greenland¿s melting ice sheet and found it is more than scientists had thought. (Michael Bevis, The Ohio State University via AP)

In a new study, researchers found that the region lost nearly 2,700 gigatons of ice between 2003 and 2013 - compared with 2,500 gigatons estimated in earlier research.

Advocates for autonomous vehicles have proposed a shift toward 'driver-free zones,' starting by banning human motorists on a 150-mile stretch of Interstate 5 between Seattle and Vancouver.

Yahoo! Inc has confirmed that hackers have compromised the details of at least 500 million users in what may be the world's biggest cyber-security breach.

The relics of war: Haunting underwater images show US aircraft dumped in the Pacific 70 years ago after the surrender of Japan 

These are the amazing images of an aircraft graveyard of US World War Two bombers and fighters dumped into the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of the Marshall Islands in 1945. Aircraft such as the B-25 Mitchell bomber, pictured, were simply discarded as soon as the Japanese surrendered as it was deemed more cost effective than repatriating them to the United States. Bombers, fighters and transport aircraft were all dumped by victorious troops a the end of the war. Now the aircraft are slowly being eaten by microscopic bacteria.

Researchers at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, believe the clouds on Saturn's largest moon may form in a process similar to one seen over the poles on Earth.

Unhappy Tesla customers in Norway are seeking reimbursements after claiming the car only reached 469 horsepower rather than the 700 horsepower as advertised.

California-based Tinder has introduced the new Stacks application globally, allowing people to send pictures to their friends which they can swipe left or right to give their opinion on.

Ex Washington Post writer Brian Krebs's website 'Krebs on Security' was kept online even though it was hit by an attack twice as big as any the security team had previously seen.

Reacting to the launch of the latest 'NoPhone' - a phone handset that can do nothing, designed by New York based NoPhone LLC, the lady behind the voice of Siri said we can no longer relate to other humans.

Geneticists at Harvard Medical School sequenced 300 genomes from 142 ethnic populations around the world (illustrated) and analysed them to build up a picture of how humans migrated out of Africa.

With the major space powers creating space-based weapon systems, researchers suggest war in space is inevitable. Now, a new project aims to ensure all space activities will follow the rule of law.

A new report from Chatham House - an independent policy institute based in London - says the consequences of a hack on satellites and other space infrastructure could be disastrous.

BMWow! Turkish engineers build a remote-controlled TRANSFORMER out of a Beamer that switches into a giant robot with arms and legs

It took a team of twelve engineers and four supporting technicians from Turkish firm Letvision to build the fully-working prototype, called ANTIMON. It looks like an ordinary car (left), but after a button on a remote control is pressed the doors open (middle) before stretching outwards into two blade-like arms. Finally, a head emerges from the roof, creating a fiercesome-looking machine.(right) The model is not currently drivable in traffic, but plans are in place to add an electric engine that would make this possible.

I do believe that we need to put a stop to allowing domestic cats to roam free, with the devastating consequences for our wildlife that entails, writes STEPHEN MOSS.

The installation of Windows 10 has caused people to lose files and e-mail accounts, and a host of other problems, including defunct printer connections, Which? says.

Researchers at Cornell University studied the effects of purpose in the online world, in two studies. They measured self-esteem and sense of purpose, and asked how many likes the participants usually get.

The University of California San Diego study found our brains react to loneliness in the same way that our brains respond to pain, triggering a reactionary response.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham explain which crop areas are expected to be hit hardest, and reveal the future locations that may become more suitable to host wheat, corn, and rice.

Whether the Brangelina divorce left you in tears or made you smile, there is a reason why you care so much. Experts reveal our emotional feelings towards celebrities is caused by parasocial relationships.

In this Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, speaks with his wife, Priscilla Chan, as they rehearse for a speech in San Francisco. Zuckerberg and Chan have a new lofty goal: to cure, manage or eradicate all disease by the end of this century. To this end, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the couple's philanthropic organization, is committing significant financial resources over the next decade to help accelerate basic science research. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century.

Philadelphia is set to test pee-resistant paint in its train systems to combat complaints of 'human waste' on the walls and floors. This spray will repel urine and spray it right back at the offender.

Battle for supremacy: Watch massive Komodo dragons wrestle and spit venom at each other in vicious fight that lasted THIRTY MINUTES 

Thrilling footage filmed in Komodo National Park in Indonesia shows the 200-pound male lizards rear up on their hind legs and grapple and wrestle with one another in a fight to assert their dominance. The evenly matched contest went on for more than half an hour, according to witnesses, as neither animal could gain the upper hand.

Scientists at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa used computer models to re-create the journey of Homo sapiens over the past 125,000 years and how climate change affected them.

Researchers at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute taught horses to point their heads at different symbols when they felt cold and needed a blanket, or when they wanted the blanket off.

Over 45 years ago, archaeologists discovered a burned 1,500-year-old Hebrew scroll on the shores of the Dead Sea in Israel. Researchers have now used digital analysis to decipher the writings.

In a genomic study of Aboriginal Australians, researchers confirmed that along with European and Asian ancestral groups, Papuan and Australian genomes trace back to one migration from Africa.

Lemur leaf frogs are critically endangered in the rainforests of Costa Rica and Panama. Keepers at Paignton Zoo in Devon created a special rain chamber to get the amphibians in the mood.

If everyone who could benefit from bisphosphonates received them, 1,180 lives could be saved a year in England, according to charity Breast Cancer Now.

Researchers from Chapman University in California asked women to rate sample smells from women without deodorant or perfume, presented to them in terms of sexiness and intensity.

Researchers from Exeter University and Curtin University, in Perth recorded the unusual audio using two underwater devices positioned 21.5 kilometres apart.

Vintage cigarette cards offer smokers clever tips including how to extract a splinter

Cigarette companies used the stiff cards to prevent damage to packets of smokes at the beginning of the 20th century. Art, trivia and pin-ups on the cards were common but one company issued a series with domestic tips, many of which are still useful today. (Pictured clockwise from top left: lighting a match in the wind, slicing bread easily, picking up broken glass and boiling a cracked egg)

Goodall has said that Trump's behavior reminds her of male chimps' 'dominance rituals'. Trump and Clinton will have their first debate against one another in Long Island on September 26.

The latest discovery of skeletal remains at the Antikythera shipwreck could allow researchers to conduct an unprecedented DNA analysis of human bones that have survived thousands of years at sea.

Cupertino-based Apple filed the patent with the US Patent & Trademark Office in March 2016, but it was only made public a few days ago. The company is trying to make its bags eco-friendly.

The study, by researchers at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, measured the brain activity of 24 students using an EEG. The findings back up a theory put forward in 1790 by a German philosopher.

The 1.3 feet long robot was developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania who are now selling it for £7,700 ($10,000) a go. It is able to climb fences, jump and even open doors.

The researchers, led by the University of Hertfordshire, used the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array telescope along with ESO's Very Large Telescope to look at the mysterious objects.

The BBC has been testing a prototype holographic display at its headquarters in London to see how its content might appear in the format. Among the holograms it created were CGI dinosaurs walking.

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.

It has baffled visitors and scientists for decades - a strange hum emanating from one of Utah's iconic rock arches. Researchers say Utah's Rainbow Bridge hums with a mix of natural and man-made vibrations.

Google Trips, provides users with daily itineraries for the top 200 cities in the world to help ‘reduce the hassle’ of planning a vacation. The app is now available for iOS and Android.

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.

California-based Instagram began running A/B tests on some users in July, but have now announced on Twitter that the feature is available to all users of the app.

The ancient shoe was discovered two weeks ago in a ditch at Roman fort Vindolanda close to Hexham, Northumberland. It will now go on permanent display in the site's museum.

Klaus Fritzsche, 80, is using Third Reich documents to pinpoint hidden treasured at the old Reimahg aircraft plant in Walpersberg, Germany, which churned out war machines for Hitler.

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.

This July 16, 2016, photo taken from underwater video shows the "Washington", which sank during a storm in 1803. The team of underwater explorers says it has found the second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian owned-sloop that sank in Lake Ontario 213 years ago. The three-member western New York-based team says it discovered the wreck of the Washington earlier this summer in deep water off Oswego. (Roger L. Pawlowski via AP)

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.

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,

Canadian researchers insist we need to be more vigilant about the way people - particularly teenagers - use the internet, looking out for signs of desperation and anger.

New Apple iOS 10 update has single parent families represented in emoji form. People took to Twitter to share their appreciation, but some questioned the lack of cultural diversity in the update.

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.

Forensic dentist Dr Paulo Miamoto and 3D graphics expert Cicero Moraes reconstructed the face of the ancient ruler whose remains were first discovered in 1987 near Sipán in Peru.

New Zealand firm Spark enlisted a fleet of Alpha 1 robots to stand in line in place of their human counterparts - and they can dance, do kung Fu, and live-stream their way through the queue.

The Oxford University research also found our tolerance of pain increased while engrossed in an emotional drama, due to the release of endorphins.

The study, from the New School for Social Research in New York, showed that people keen readers of classic literature were more able to identify the emotion expressed in pictures of an actor's eyes (stock image).

A study of DNA from over 200 ancient cats revealed two distinct waves of population growth in Eurasia and Africa. Study suggests they expanded with farming and seafaring communities.

Reports claim Apple is in discussions with British supercar maker McLaren about an investment or acquisition. Some view this as way for Apple to revive its secretive self-driving electric car effort.

California-based Google has teamed up with the London and Berlin Natural History Museums to create a unique online exhibition featuring a staggering 300,000 specimens.

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.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, suspected of the bombings in Chelsea and New Jersey, was taken into custody Monday in Linden, New Jersey after a shootout with police, just hours after the text alert was sent.

Brown University geologists studied the 2.5-mile (4 km) deep, 621 mile (1,000 km) wide basin of Sputnik Planum, found within the famous heart-shaped region on Pluto's surface.

Dr Bosco Rowland, a registered psychologist at Deakin University, Victoria, says drinking no more than four drinks on a single occasion reduces the risk of alcohol-related injury to one in 100.

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.

The Navy's newest destroyer will remain in Virginia at Naval Station Norfolk longer than expected after crew members detected a leak on the vessel.

Shenzhen-based Tencent's Keen Security Lab said researchers were able to remotely control some systems on the Tesla S in both driving and parking modes by exploiting security bugs, that are now fixed.

At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, researchers are searching for evidence of extra dimensions. If found, they could solve various mysteries about the universe.

Palaeontologist Dr Mike Simms believes he has found the 25 mile-wide impact crater under the small town of Lairg in northern Scotland and says the meteorite would have been two miles wide.

Google has confirmed a launch event in San Francisco on 4 October where it is expected to unveil the new handsets along with a 4K Chromecast and a virtual reality device.

Researchers from the University of Florida say the American alligator is 6 million years older than previously thought, and is almost identical to its ancestors that lived least 8 million years ago.

Greenhouse gas emissions are destroying the physical and chemical makeup of the oceans. And the University of Adelaide warns it will be much quieter by 2100 if we continue to ignore it.

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

But shorter naps did not show an increased risk and might have beneficial effects on diabetes, according to the Japanese study presented to the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

The Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions has collaborated with researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create the autonomous Roboats for the Dutch city's canals.

High-tech fabrics could soon allow you to charge your devices on the go simply by standing outside on a sunny, breezy day. The hybrid power textile generates electricity from both sunshine and motion.

According to well-known tech leaker Evan Blass, Allo will be released on Sept. 21, over a month after the firm's new video calling app, Duo, was rolled out worldwide.

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.

Reports claim that the overheating battery issue surrounding Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 could be the result of the Korean firm's urgency to beat Apple.

Men who suffer from severe anxiety are twice as likely to die from cancer than men who do not but women with the mental health condition were at no greater risk, researchers said.

In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, photo, the LG V20 is demonstrated in New York. The most visible changes include the ability to run two apps side-by-side. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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.

A fighting boomerang or a wooden weapon known as a ‘Lil-lil’ may be to blame for the injuries seen in the remains, suggesting Aboriginal people once fought deadly battles between themselves.

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.

Dr Harriet Dempsey-Jones, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford explains how why our minds may trick us into feeling another person's gaze.

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.

University of Maryland's Solar Gamera is only capable of short flights so far, but researchers say the achievement marks a moment in history for both green aviation and rotary blade aviation.

iPhone users have complained of reduced battery on their devices since updating to the Cupertino-based firm made its 'biggest release ever' for its mobile operating system.

HMS Warrior was found in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway 100 years after sinking during the Battle of Jutland after sustaining heavy damage from a German bombardment.

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.

Italian neurosurgeon Dr Sergoi Canavero (pictured) plans to conduct the first human head transplant next year after tests to stimulate movement in fresh corpses with electricity.

Alice Roberts, a professor at the University of Birmingham, and Mark Maslin, Professor of Palaeolimatology at UCL explain the evidence against the aquatic ape theory.

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.

This photo combo of images provided by Google demonstrates the use of the company's new Allo app. Google wants to modernize phone chats by bringing a personal virtual assistant to conversations. The Allo app promises to be ¿smart¿ in the sense that the new Google Assistant will respond with restaurant recommendations when someone types, ¿Italian food nearby.¿ It can also send daily updates on weather and sports or suggest replies to friends¿ messages. (Google via AP)

California-headquartered Google has started the global rollout of the free messaging app today, just a week after Apple updated its own Messages app with iOS 10 software update.

A new project will use 3D scanners to record and analyse more than 2,000 piece of rock art scattered around the Scottish countryside in the hope of revealing new links between the carvings.

The theory that van Gogh suffered from psychosis comes from a group of 35 international psychiatrists, doctors and art historians, who recently met at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Researchers found that Seattle-based Amazon was biased in terms of where their own products appeared on search lists, and also in price comparison, by not including shipping costs.

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.

Elon Musk said that the vehicle his company has been developing to take humans to Ma. He plans to reveal more during a session at the International Astronautical Congress in Mexico.

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

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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.

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.

A YouTuber believes aliens helped develop an ancient Japanese civilization. Looking at a Kofun Era tomb in Japan, Secureteam10 says the same keyhole shaped mound is also on Mars.

The footage of the June 28 test which took place in Promontory, Utah, was posted to YouTube on Friday by NASA's Marshall Center. Parts of the booster's nozzle plug are captured flying.

The Oculus Rift headset first landed on crowdfunding site Kickstarter in 2012 and was later bought by Facebook. It launched in the US in March and is now available in the UK.

       

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