Watch the incredible 'hawk's eye view' of a rabbit being hunted down that reveals raptors 'think like humans' when they search for prey

Researchers from Haverford and New Jersey found the neural processes underlying visual search behavior in hawks were similar to those in humans. A Northern Goshawk named Shinta was fitted with a tiny head-mounted camera as part of the groundbreaking study to produce stunning 'hawk's eye' footage to allow the team to work out where the bird was looking.

Every person’s brain has its own unique ‘fingerprint,' according to a new study led by Carnegie Mellon University. Researchers used diffusion MRI to map the brain's structural connections.

Swab samples from eight neighbourhoods across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn, have revealed disturbing new insight on the unseen inhabitants of ATM keypads, including skin microbes, traces of food, and potentially disease-causing parasites.

On Thursday, Sir David Attenborough fans can watch over 1,000 curated clips from his series with a new app. Called Attenborough's Story of Life, this app showcases six decades of his work.

The strength and dynamism of the antibody - known as N6 - means it could be developed and re-purposed to treat and prevent HIV infections, according to a National Institutes of Health team.

This Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 photo shows the Xiaomi's Mi Box streaming TV device in New York.  Your streaming TV options just got better and cheaper. Features that once required a $100 device can now be had for as little as $30. A cheap device is fine for getting TV shows and movies from most popular services onto a big-screen TV, as long as it¿s a regular, high-definition set. (AP Photo)

Ranging in price for $30 to over $100, streamers are big business - and choosing one can be confusing - with some TVs even coming with the required smarts built in.

Amazon is giving its customers x-ray vision to see inside their packages with a new feature called Package X-ray. Users scan a barcode on the box with the app and the items will appear on the screen.

Three Dutch vessels - HMNLS De Ruyter, Java and Kortenaer - all sank on February 27, 1942, in the Battle of the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia but now they have mysteriously disappeared.

Colourful brainteaser features a very carefully disguised aircraft

The latest puzzle (above) on the Internet is one of the hardest. The image appears to show pink and red starfish of different sizes along with seaweed floating around them - but somewhere inside there is a hidden airplane waiting to be spotted. See if you can spot the airplane and try some of the old

The robot, named Torobo-kun, failed an entrance exam to the prestigious Tokyo University. Its creators designed the robot to test the current limits of artificial intelligence.

Massive colonies of seabirds create an equally massive amount of waste, and Toronto scientists say it could be boosting the formation of low hanging clouds that reflect sunlight.

Fergus Simpson, a statistics expert from the University of Barcelona, warns that the annual risk of global catastrophe currently exceeds 0.2 per cent.

Giant Magagascar hissing cockroaches face a tradeoff when it comes to their mating tactics, growing long horns to fight off other males or growing bigger testicles to improve the odds of fertilization.

The study from the University of Barcelona and the George Washington University in Washington, D.C aimed to investigate an earlier discrepancy in research.

Two papers by the University of Arizona and UC Santa Cruz claim that a frozen nitrogen pile-up in the dwarf planet's heart-shaped region changed Pluto's tilt and hint at an ocean below its surface.

An expert from the University of Exeter explores the fascinating world of flamingos that dance on frozen pools in the Andes to attract a mate and explains how they thrive in these conditions.

Astronomers sayspherical star is 'roundest natural object ever measured'

Kepler 11145123, 5000 light years away from Earth, is more than twice the size of the Sun, yet the difference in radius between its equator and poles is only 3 km, making it far rounder than even the Sun. Named Kepler 11145123, the hot and luminous star is more than twice the size of the Sun and rotates three times more slowly than the Sun.

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Drones to the rescue! Watch four unmanned craft working together to put out fires and find a lost camper in simulated search and rescue mission

Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky teamed up to for the first search and rescue mission carried out by a fleet of drones. at Griffiss International Airport in New York. Four unmanned aircraft worked together by sharing data with each other in order to put out a small fire and rescue a lost camper. One specifically fetched a bucket of water to smother the small fire at the airport.

Hacking group OurMine was able to change the Facebook CEO’s Pinterest bio on Tuesday, and has gained access to the password and phone number associated with his Twitter account.

Researchers at City University in London, showed short video clips of ballet dancing to trained dancers and a control group, revealing trained dancers are more in tune with movements.

European researchers will head to a remote and hostile post in Antarctica this month to dig for ancient ice and air. They hope to discover more on historical shifts in the Earth's climate.

A team of international researchers explore the phenomenon called the reminiscence bump to understand why we best remember things that happened from between the ages of 15 to 25.

The Kyoto-based games firm announced the reissue of the classic 80s console earlier this year, but gamers have been bidding online way beyond the retail price to get their hands on one.

Journalist and TV presenter Jon Snow reveals he is marginally claustrophobic, and how he got a liver infection while covering an IRA siege in the Republic of Ireland in the seventies.

If you must take a drag, a new report published by The American Journal of Medicine has found drinking a glass or two of red wine before lighting up protects your cells against some of the damages.

Avoid THIS car wash at all costs! Footage shows car battery being sliced in half by powerful jet sprayer 

With razor-sharp precision, a waterjet can slice perfectly through an iPhone, creating the distinctive Apple logo in seconds. Dan Hicken, 27, and Mitchell Fillmore, 31, from Bountiful in Utah, have filmed a series of videos of their waterjet, which is pressurised to 60,000 pounds per square inch (psi), cutting through a range of products. The pair upload their videos to their YouTube channel, called The Waterjet Channel, so curious viewers can see what's inside a car battery, bowling ball and even an LED light bulb. Mitchell said: 'We had the idea one Sunday, and the next week we cut a seashell and a rubber ball.'

Two months after Facebook admitted it had inflated the time it told advertisers that users were watching their video ads, the company is promising better data to give buyers a clearer picture.

The stunning 85lb (38kg) ingot, which is inscribed with the name of emperor Marcus Aurelius Armeniacus and dates to 164 BCE, was found by Jason Baker from Plymouth.

Oncologists at Sichuan University's West China Hospital in Chengdu delivered cells modified using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique into a patient with aggressive lung cancer.

A study from University of British Columbia suggests , suggests that parents can use interactive technologies like iPads to complement their childrens school-based learning (stock image used).

Researchers have pinpointed the chemical processes that combined with natural fog as a result of coal burning, eventually creating a deadly acidic haze that turned the sky completely dark.

Researchers from the University of Colorado say the findings could help to reduce one of the leading causes of debilitation and death among patients in nursing homes.

The study was run by eBay, who investigated the physiological responses of 100 shoppers, during a 60-minute shopping experience in London (stock image used).

Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada and Harvard in the US found that being easily distracted can actually be a help with problem solving and learning new information.

Nasa paper leaves scientists baffled at how EmDrive prototype actually works

Last week, a leaked NASA paper appeared to show that scientists had successfully created a working EmDrive prototype. The radical fuel-free engine defies the laws of physics and has long been dubbed ‘impossible,’ but if achieved, it could get humans to Mars in just 10 weeks. While many have cast doubt on the findings, experts now say there ‘may really be something there’ – but, the cause might be something entirely different than what’s been proposed. Rather than the quantum vacuum theory which was initially cited to explain the findings, a phenomenon known as the ‘Mach effect’ could be to blame, according to Motherboard .

Scientists from the University of Lincoln tested 36 porkers, some of which were treated to improved living conditions with more living space and extra-deep layers of straw.

Hidden for more than 1,100 years, this Anglo Saxon cemetery in Norfolk is believed to be the final resting place of some of the country’s earliest Christians.

Google has designed a new app that transforms dingy prints into vibrant digital photos. Called Photoscan, the app instantly crops, rotates, color corrects and removes glare from prints.

The Obama administration urged the technology industry to secure millions of internet-connected devices from hacking. Previous attacks have targeted devices such as smart lightbulbs, pictured.

A pre-mammalian reptile that lived 259 million years evolved horn-like structures on its upper and lower jaws which led to our canine teeth for 'sexual display', researchers concluded.

Israeli-based Laser Detect System has unveiled the world's first ever explosive sniffing drone. The SpectroDrone system uses a range of lasers and high-resolution cameras to locate threats.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is now requiring new hybrid and electric cars to make an 'alert sound' while traveling at speeds up to 19 miles per hour.

OnePlus 3T launches with a bigger battery and powerful processor to take on the iPhone 7

The handset from the Chinese smartphone maker will go on sale on 22 November in the US and on 28 November in Europe. The OnePlus 3T, which has a 5.5-inch AMOLED screen will start at £399 ($439 in the US), compared to the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus and Google Pixel XL, both of which start at £719.

An expert at Durham University explains investigators will have to use biology and chemistry when solving crimes, as the physics of space will not allow them to use traditional techniques.

Called  'Designed by Apple in California,' the firm says the book 'illustrates Apple's creative inspiration and thinking,' and is dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs.

In October, the Wall Street Journal reported Snapchat could start selling shares as early as late March with a valuation of $25 billion or more. Now, Reuters says sources close to the firm confirmed the move.

AT&T; has revealed it is collaborating with NASA to develop an Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management solution, which it hopes would reduce the threat of cyberattacks.

Doctors from the Massachusetts Ear and Eye Centre say that the immediate concerns are with the younger users because they will be prone to use them for much longer periods of time.

This undated photo provided by Lyft shows an illuminated Lyft beacon. Ride-hailing service Lyft, the underdog rival to Uber, is getting rid of its iconic pink moustache logo and replacing it with something more useful: a beacon. (Lyft via AP)

Ride-hailing service Lyft, the underdog rival to Uber, is getting rid of its iconic pink moustache logo and replacing it with beacons. These will be on the dashboard of Lyft drivers' cars beginning Jan. 1.

The California-based dating platform is rolling out more gender options for users including ‘Transgender’, ‘Trans woman/man’ or even to a tailored gender, such as ‘Trans…x’.

Who's a CLEVER boy then? Impressive footage shows cockatoos making tools using different materials to reach food

The Goffin's cockatoo, a native of Indonesia, is not known to use tools in the wild or to have evolved the ability to build nests from twigs. Yet four captive birds demonstrated a striking level of lateral thinking by constructing tools to retrieve food placed out of their reach, a new study by the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna and the University of Oxford has found. The hand-raised parrots, Figaro, Dolittle (pictured), Kiwi and Pipin, had to fashion a tool at least 2.4 inches (6cm) long that could be poked through a hole to dislodge a tasty piece of cashew nut.

A firm called Alkahest has found that injecting the blood of 18-year-old humans into old mice rejuvenates the body and brain, improving cognition and allowing them to frolic about like younger mice.

Google will prevent websites with misleading content from using ads to earn money, while Facebook it is restricting adverts appearing alongside 'misleading or deceptive' content.

In the latest report on Google's highly anticipated autonomous fleet, the California-based firm reveal that it has taught its cars to perform one of the most difficult driving manoeuvres.

The Inverness-based Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, which collates all data from stranded marine animals around Scotland, believes the remains are 'blobsters' from decaying cetaceans.

The social network, based in San Francisco, has previously been criticised for not doing enough to combat trolls. The update will be rolled out to all Twitter users in the coming days.

Researchers from the University of Limmerick have created a mathematical model to help make the perfect brew. They hope that their model can make coffee brewing more precise.

From how you ask your date questions to your body language, Rachel Maclynn from The Vida Consultancy has revealed where you could be going wrong - and how to fix it.

Users across the UK, Europe and parts of the US reported issues with the dating site, including messages not sending, matches being deleted and problems logging in.

Watch the US Army's real-life PHASER GUN in action: Weapon can knock out a swarm of drones, cars and even smart missiles with a single blast of microwave energy

Raytheon's Phaser weapon uses a technique known as high-power microwave (HPM) to knock drones out of the sky with a single pulse of energy. Now, the firm has revealed the first footage of its, ground-based Phaser knocking out two small drones during a 2013 experiment at the Army Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

FILE - In this Thursday, July 26, 2001 file photo, Roi Porat, an Israeli student of archaeology, works near the remains of a cave found at the West Bank archeological site of Qumran, near the Dead Sea Thursday, July 26, 2001. An Israeli antiquities official says Israel is embarking on a major expedition to find more Dead Sea Scrolls and other artifacts. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Amir Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority said a government research team will spend the next three years surveying hundreds of caves in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea, where scrolls were found.

The software forces the affected phones to send all the device's text messages to a server in China every 72 hours, analysts have said. Some 120,000 US phones have already been affected.

Dr Catherine Laing, a researcher in neuroscience at Duke University in North Carolina, explains how baby talk kick-starts the development of language skills in children (stock image).

The body heat-powered smartwatch is the work of Matrix Industries, based in Menlo Park, California and is currently seeking backers on crowdfunding site Indiegogo.

The reconstructed 70ft dinosaur will leave his long-term home at the Natural History Museum in London and embark on an eight-stop tour, kicking off at Dorset County Museum.

The US was ranked fourth and the UK eighth in the overall comparison of how 'free' the internet is. Estonia took the number one spot. China was the worst offender for a second year, followed by Syria and Iran.

According to Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, aliens capable of sending signals that can be detected by Earth technologies may transcend beyond the biological form to live as intelligent machines.

Music streaming firm Spotify, which is based in Stockholm and London, has issued a fix for the bug after the issue was pointed out by users of the service.

OpenAI will use Azure for its experiments in deep learning and AI, and Microsoft will collaborate with the company on advancing research and creating new tools and technologies.

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University found that siblings bear responsibility for the spread of bad behaviours because they hold more influence than parents or friends (stock image).

The turtle was stranded on the shore at the Tan-Y-Foel beach on the Menai Straits at Angelsey, North Wales - and has been named Menai by experts looking after it at the Angelsey Sea Zoo.

Tricky puzzle leaves the internet scratching its head 

A tricky new puzzle from Playbuzz is asking users to spot the misplaced tile in a series of images. Surely a nightmare for anyone with OCD the player is presented with eleven photos all showcasing a poorly finished tiling job.The brainteasers range from the blindingly obvious to the fiendishly difficult.

The firm is set to unveil the most radical redesign of its flagship handset so far for the iPhone's 10th anniversary in 2017, and rumours are already flying over its use of a new curved screen.

Binghamton researchers trained an AI to use everything from previous flight times to weather forecasts to say exactly how long passengers will be stuck.

Firms including Facebook, Google and Amazon have sent President-elect Donald Trump a detailed list of their policy priorities, which includes promoting encryption and, immigration reform.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego showed that swabbing someone’s phone revealed a wealth of information about them and could be used as a rapid diagnostic test.

Called Color Binoculars, the free iOS app uses filters to adjust images based on three different kinds of color-blindness, allowing the differences and even the colors themselves to stand out.

IBM labs in New York have finally unlocked the secret to creating microchips using carbon nanotubes, an innovation that could lead us to some of the most powerful microchips ever created.

Mary Robinson made the claims at U.N. climate talks in Marrakesh, saying it would be a 'tragedy for the United States and the people of the United States'

Richard Branson-backed mini-concorde that can fly London to New York in 3.5 hours

Claimed to be the 'world's fastest civil aircraft ever made', the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator created by Denver-based boom is due to take off on its first test flight in late 2017. Richard Branson (pictured inset) and his Virgin Galactic space firm backed the development of the plane. The hope is that the prototype will eventually be scaled up to produce the Boom Passenger Airliner. The airline tycoon has confirmed that Virgin has options to buy 10 of the recently revealed supersonic Boom jets, which will be capable of flying at 1,451mph - about 100mph faster than Concorde - and reaching New York from London in three and a half hours.

Made by a pair of inventors from Fürstenfeld in Austria, the clip on footwear claims to provide added comfort, stability and protection for horses and their riders.

Researchers from Williams College in Massachusetts and the University of California say that a one-hour increase in sleep can raise wages by half as much as an additional year of education.

More than 412 million global accounts from adult sites in the 'FriendFinder' network have been stolen including users of Penthouse, Stripshow, iCams and Adult FriendFinder.

The app uses machine learning to suggest songs based on signals including location, activity and time of day. Starting this week, Google Play Music users on Android, iOS globally will receive the update.

According to research scientist Muhammad A. Ahmad, harnessing virtual reality is the ‘next step in the evolution of bereavement’ and could allow us to communicate with the dead.

Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy Harman International Industries in an $8 billion deal, marking a major push into the auto electronics market.

From his facial hair to his penchant for curries, skin expert Lee Garrett has shared six ways that your partner may be causing you to breakout - and they will shock you.

Stunning app shows colourful array of radiation frequencies painting the galaxy

The interactive galactic map enables users to filter their view of the universe by radiation bands, incorporating stunning images captured by a survey in Murchison, Western Australia. As part of the project, astronomers have made the app available on Android phones and tablets and even a representative 3D view, using Google cardboard. Pictured are views of the universe in the visible spectrum (left), as well as filtered for infrared (middle) and microwave radiation.

An image shared on the Shenzhen-based company's official Weibo page today shows the back of a handset similar to the OnePlus 3. The OnePlus 3T is expected to be released tomorrow.

The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization believes that 2016 could become the the warmest year in modern history, with 16 of the hottest years this century alone.

The Seattle-based online retail giant launched the on demand service in the US last month, but has now expanded it to customers in the UK, Germany and Austria.

The study, by the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, says we've evolved to believe red foods are likely to be more nutritious.

Researchers from the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo say that emissions have leveled off at about 36 billion metric tons in the past three years.

In a study reported recently in PLOS ONE, a pair of researchers at Nagoya University in Japan obtained strong support for the idea that humans are particularly good at spotting snakes.

Could YOU survive the suicide circle? Roman math puzzle revealed

If you are standing in a suicide circle with 40 other people, but do not want to die, where should you position yourself? This is the question Flavius Josephus asked himself while standing in a circle in 67 AD. After going through different sequences and finding significant patterns, a modern-day mathematician reveals Josephus must have been standing in the 19th place if he was the only one left alive after each solider took turns killing their neighbor.

Facebook has been flooded with ‘memorial’ accounts today as the social media site incorrectly notifies scores of users that they are dead - including Mark Zuckerberg.

A new survey has revealed the most ‘confusing’ emojis, from the huffing face to the smiley with its tongue out, and just 1 in 5 people are able to describe them all correctly.

Nigel Antony Gray made a Facebook post a week before the New Zealand earthquake warning the 'supermoon' meant its gravitational pull would be higher, making a major quake 'quite possible'.

Matt McMullen, CEO of California-based RealDoll, says that sex with robots could help to improve skills in the bedroom, by making people less afraid to be adventurous and try new positions.

One theory dating back to the Middle Ages suggests that Jesus studied in Glastonbury, while the Ahmadi Muslim faith believes he lived in India's Kashmir, and others say he died in Shingo, Japan.

Global anger at the plight of 'the saddest polar bear in the world', who was caged in a Chinese shopping mall, has borne fruit, with the mall owners agreeing to send him back to an ocean park.

The footage, which appears in the next episode, was shot with camera traps in the Canadian Rockies and shows adult bears rubbing their backs and heads against the bark.

The 'Stone Age Atlantis': Stunning video reveals the 9,000-year-old settlement found submerged under the sea off Sweden

Just off the coast of southern Sweden, researchers have discovered what’s thought to be the submerged remains of an ancient Stone Age lagoon community. The findings include a 9,000-year-old pick axe sculpted from elk antlers, and eight fish traps made of braided hazel rods. According to the researchers, the settlers that once lived there likely had ‘good lives,’ with plenty of food and a favourable climate. But, the lagoon environment sank as sea levels rose in the centuries that followed.

Teams from De Montfort and Leicester Universities used a technique called 'reflection analysis' to match up simulated images of the lander with the pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The killer devices, known as Alpha and Flight, are designed for deployment on the Russian border, and can accurately detect and destroy both ground and aerial targets long before they reach Russian soil.

Experts say the alternatives - Soyuz capsules and even SpaceX and Boeing's capsules, would simply be too challenging for sick spacemen.

The Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico is one of the most powerful radiation sources in the world – and with tritium, it will emit 500 times more energy than it’s capable of now.

Researchers at Kingston University say using your hands can help you solve problems more efficiently - and make you a much better Scrabble player.

The patent shows a narrow Samsung device with a screen that bends and folds like an old-school flip phone handset, with a large hinge. It is believed to have the codename 'foldable valley'.

Researchers led by Dr Ricardo Schiavon, from Liverpool John Moores University, has made a discovery that sheds new light on how galaxies and stars within them form.

The mysterious skeleton was found just outside a church of the Ostrów Lednicki stronghold in Poland in 1977, but details of the woman have now been released in a new book.

Playbuzz quiz that will determine if you really have superior colour vision 

The quiz devised by Playbuzz asks people to pick the darkest hue out of a selection of six shades of a similar colour. Only those with superior colour vision are able to select the deepest shade from the selection. Those who are unable to select the deepest hue may be suffering from eye sight problems or colour blindness.

The porcelain 'lamp' (pictured) was bought by a Welsh couple in 1953. The figure turned out to be a 'nine dragons' hat stand made for Emperor Dauguang of Imperial China's Qing dynasty.

Dr Victoria Talwar, a developmental psychology expert at McGill University in Quebec, explains some of the biggest mistakes parents make when dealing with their children lying.

Drone deliveries of pizza are now a reality after Domino's successfully send New Zealand customers a Peri-Peri Chicken and a Chicken and Cranberry Pizza by drone on Wednesday.

A new study from Duke University used remote-sensing technology to map out changes in land usage that are gradually limiting the habitats of over 600 species of tropical bird.

Due to the low weight and ease of assembly, Oxfordshire-based company Charge says a production plant of 10 men working two shifts a day could churn out 10,000 of the vehicles a year.

Jaguar will today release details of its all-knew electric sports car, the I-Pace which will have a 200mph top speed and 0-60 time of just four seconds with a range of 310 miles.

A study led by the University of Pennsylvania, found most people wrongly identified someone's gender based on the words they use. For instance, tweets on technology were always assigned to men.

All non-urgent operations and appointments were cancelled at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (pictured) for two days last month, after a malicious virus infected the IT system

Located in the Mora valley, just two hours east of Santa Fe, Fort Union once protected the trade route alongside Mountain and Cimarron Branches of the old Santa Fe Trail.

The founders of Hyperloop One, which uses magnets to levitate pods inside huge airless tubes at speeds up to 750 mph (1,100 kmh) plan to run the first full scale test of the system in Nevada next year.

Sky gazers across the country got to see the biggest and brightest moon since 1948 Monday. A man and his dog are pictured stand on a hill in front of the supermoon in Sparks, Nevada.

While details of the vehicle itself are a closely-guarded secret, pictures show it sporting the grille and headlight design from the new Cadillac models.

A 309ft tree - which belongs to the Shorea genus - has been discovered on the island of Borneo. It is 15ft taller than the previous record-breaking tree also found in Malaysia.

The University of Malta and the University of Aix-Marseille in France found several artefacts on board the wreck in the central Mediterranean, including an amphora pot from Malta.

Nasa's GOES-R satellite will offer more precise, complete lightning observations over North and South America, which will improve global data collected by the University of Washington.

A study from Queen Mary University of London has found that animals where the males fight a lot and show off exuberantly could be at greater risk of extinction.

Utah-based Nexo, has created two types of tyres - named Nexo and Ever Tires - that are not affected by holes or slashes. They both use a special polymer blend, called 'Nexell', which makes them durable.

Sets of mystery remains which appeared on the shores of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides this year have been identified by locals as those of the Arctic predators.

Analysis by London-based Sensum shows players experience unconscious spikes in anger and frustration when they encounter other members of the public while hunting down.

Some of nature's most elegant creatures were shown coming a cropper in last night's Planet Earth II. Pink flamingos that struggled to stay upright on a frozen lake left viewers weeping with laughter.

The towering rocket that blasted off on Thursday night from the Wenchang launch centre will be used to launch components for the Tiangong 2 space station and other massive payloads.

Logic dictates there could be no possible link between such disparate events and trends, and yet some suggest the connection is right up there in the sky — all of them occurring under the glare of a full moon.

European Union data protection authorities expressed serious concerns about WhatsApp's recent change in privacy policy and Yahoo's 2014 data breach.

Professor Richard Williams, Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, explains the root of the problem of exploding devices.

Researchers at Cornell University in New York studied an almost forgotten set of data, collected 10 years ago by Nasa's Cassini mission to find Saturn's C ring is much younger than thought.

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed self-healing batteries and electrochemical sensors using the new state-of-the-art ink.

Scientists discovered the anomaly under Cerro Uturuncu (pictured), a dormant volcano in Bolivia and say such lakes could appear under other volcanic zones, such as in New Zealand.

The object was spotted in 2012 by UFO Sightings Daily, reported as a 'doorway'. But a new video from US alien-hunter Tyler Glockner, it is claimed to be a huge monolith.

Researchers first discovered a massive brine pool under the Gulf on Mexico in 2015 using a robosub. Now, they have revealed more about the conditions inside.

Britain might not be able to use its two new aircraft carriers because of a lack of cash to replace 80-year-old power cables at their base in Portsmouth which form part of an £8.5bn infrastructure shortfall.

After three months of excavations at the site in Shoreditch, London, the archaeologists have revealed the original layout of the famous theatre which shut down in 1624.

In stunning time-lapse footage, researchers have revealed how these remarkable clusters creep toward sustenance, sending tiny ‘fingers’ out from the main body to explore their surroundings.

Faraday Future has released a new teaser video of the electric car it will show at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which will be in Las Vegas in January 2017.

The procedure, which was carried out in Mooloolaba, Australia, was funded by Sea Life's marine animal welfare centre in Weymouth, Dorset.

The Cupertino-based firm has launched a promised update for the iPhone 7 Plus, which adds a 'depth-of-field' affect usually associated with high-end cameras.

David Mayman, a former commercial pilot from Australia, worked with a team of engineers to build the one-person vertical take-off device. The jetpack is expected to begin shipping in April 2017.

In December 2015, a massive cyclone ripped through the Arctic, bringing enough heat and humidity to thin the ice cover and melt it out in some areas and raising temps 18°F warmer than average.

This stunning new image reveals the massive hexagonal storm at Saturn's North Pole, and its gigantic rings.

President Barack Obama and Donald Trump put on a united front at the White House in Washington DC, but body language expert Patti Wood believes not is all as it seems.

The alternative location for the £1.1bn Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), on La Palma (pictured), was chosen after native protests at the primary site at the Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii.

Samsung has recalled 2.8 million washing machines for excessive vibration and detaching lids.

GCHQ, the Government's listening post, based in Cheltenham, is releasing its first puzzle collection, as well as a Sudoku and picture board conundrum for its competition.

A bus driver has filmed mysterious lights hovering above a hotel in North Carolina that has sent UFO enthusiasts into a frenzy.

The creation, called Kalettes, are nutty and sweet tasting. Staples Vegetables near Boston in Lincolnshire, is behind the idea and hope the vegetables will prove popular over the coming festive months.

US YouTuber DoctorGTA claimed his video was removed by the US arm of Samsung after posting a video with the Note 7 mod (pictured) and received a three month strike from YouTube.

A Japanese architect has created what may be the most accurate map of the world. Hajime Narukawa used a new map making method called AuthaGraph that divides the globe into 96 triangles.

Engineering entrepreneur Sir James (pictured) says the university will be based at Dyson’s development campus in Wiltshire and will accept its first group of 25 students in September.

A small probe hoped to make history by becoming the first European spacecraft to survive a landing on Mars, controlled from the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

Researchers from Imperial College Business School analysed more than 100 years of data, to predict that by 2026, information from smart gadgets could be used to match people with prospective partners.

The US Geological Survey has released satellite images showing the scale of California's increasingly arid conditions and the impact on local water resources.

A chilling snapshot has surfaced of a mammoth huntsman spider crawling over a broom on an animal rescue farm in Queensland’s Brisbane Valley.

The Shenzhou-11 spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in the early hours of this morning, on a mission to its orbiting laboratory.

House-proud chimpanzee Elya was filmed using a rag to wipe the windows of her enclosure clean at a zoo in the city of Rostov on Don, south-western Russia.

Three teenagers were walking a long a jetty in south east Queensland when they spotted the multi-coloured, wriggling animal.

Tonight's episode of Planet Earth II once again had the nation gripped with more dramatic tales, this time from the vertiginous tips of the world's highest mountains.

Northrop: Beating heat leads sixth-generation fighter challenges

Thermal management will be a critical factor in a brewing competition to replace hundreds of Lockheed Martin F-22s and Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, says a top Northrop Grumman executive.

Releasing a new artistic concept of a so-called sixth-generation fighter on 11 December, Northrop Aerospace Systems president Tom Vice singled-out the critical but often overlooked quality of managing all the heat generated by ever-more powerful weapons and sensors anticipated on future combat aircraft.

The technology, known as  'directed energy systems' will be fitted to future craft to allow them to protect themselves. The laser weapon will be housed in a pod attached to a fighter-sized aircraft.

Feadship, the Dutch company behind Steve Jobs' custom-built superyacht, unveiled its 'Choice' superyacht concept at the Monaco Yacht Show.

Researchers from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens made the discovery after studying the sea floor beneath the caldera off the coast of Crete.

Using the Sphere instrument in Chile astronomers have been able to analyse discs of dust, rock and ice, showing how the emerging planets cause them to change shape.

The strange creature was spotted by a deep-sea diver off the coast of Bali. Though it may look like it's from another planet, experts have revealed it is in fact a sea slug, known as melibe viridis.

The skeleton was found during excavations using explosives at a school construction site near Ganzhou in southern China and remains remarkably well preserved.

An ancient papyrus manuscript from the time of the First Temple during a press call in Jerusalem ©Menahem Khana (AFP)

Israeli archaeologists have unveiled a 7th century BC text they said contains the earliest mention in Hebrew of Jerusalem outside the Bible. The scroll was found in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea.

At the space agency's Robotic Operations Center in Maryland, the mock-up helps engineers understand the intricate operations required to collect a multi-ton boulder from an asteroid's surface.

The James Webb telescope stands, completed and almost ready to go to space, in an enormous clean room at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

The futuristic city-state of Dubai announced a deal on with Los Angeles-based Hyperloop One to study the potential for building a line linking it to the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi.

This week Dubai announced that it had signed a deal to build the world's first Hyperloop line, running from the Gulf city state to the capital of the United Arab Emirates in neighbouring Abu Dhabi.

The astonishing TV which showed marine iguanas attempting to outrun a knot of racer snakes on Fernandina Island was labelled ‘the stuff of nightmares’ by viewers as they hid behind the sofa.

The breathtaking view captures the sediments on the floor of a canyon near a feature known as Syrtis Major, and provides a glimpse at the history of the landscape, according to NASA.

The barrel-shaped object crashed onto property owned by a jade mining company in Kachin State's Hpakant township. Another smaller piece of metal tore through the roof of a house in a nearby village.

Videos at the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo shed light on the evolution of teaching, showing how chimps learn from their mothers to catch termites with 'fishing probes.'

An animation from the American Museum of Natural History shows how population has grown, from less than a million people when migration out of Africa began, to more than 7.2 billion alive today.

A stunning new map from Imgur user Fejetlenfej shows the complex network of rivers and streams in the contiguous United States, highlighting the massive expanse of basins across the country.

Dr Deirdre Barrett, a clinical and evolutionary psychologist at Harvard Medical School, said dogs are likely to dream about what happened to them during the day - much like humans.