Science

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.

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.

The project in Ait Baamrane in Morocco, was set up by an organisation called Dar Si Hmad, which spent 10 years researching, developing and testing the infrastructure.

Researchers at Northwestern University examined the brains of eight people over 90 who were sharp until their deaths. The brain scans revealed they all had full-blown Alzheimer's.

The image was taken by Tim Atkinson, 50, during a visit the spooky ruins of 12th century Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, and spotted the face when flicking through the pictures.

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.

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 almost perfectly round.

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.

Dr Victoria Leong, a researcher at Cambridge University said speaking in a soothing sing-song voice – dubbed ‘motherese’ – helps the baby to enter a state where it is more receptive to learning.

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.

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.

Footage shows how dozens of construction workers laboured through the night using cement mixers, cranes and diggers to fix the 30m wide chasm in Fukuoka, southwest Japan.

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.

Photographers visiting the testing site in Cambridgeshire has filmed the moment they were turned away from by security guards, who they say were equipped with binoculars and radios.

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.

A Taiwanese Facebook user said a female boss of a bedding company had sent the picture to him by mistake to ask if he was happy with the colour of the bedding set.

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.

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.

Researchers from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna and the University of Oxford demonstrated the birds' astonishing intelligence in a new study involving the making of cardboard tools.

The University of California swapped out the mechanical parts in a humanoid for helium balloons. BALLU is lightweight and has twig-like legs, allowing it to freely walk around.

The handset from the Chinese smartphone maker will go on sale on 22 November in the US and on 28 November in Europe.

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

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.

A tricky new puzzle from Playbuzz is asking users to spot the misplaced tile in a series of images. The brainteasers range from the blindingly obvious to the fiendishly difficult.

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

The Internet is known for its brainteasers and the latest is incredibly tough. The image shows pink and red starfish and green seaweed - but somewhere hidden inside is a plane waiting to be spotted.

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.

The photographs show an contemporary tribal community near the Brazilian-Venezuelan border the circular shack-like structure is understood to be home to about 100 people.

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.

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.

Isis Shiffer, 29, an industrial design student from New York, won the Dyson design prize for her 'EcoHelmet'. The helmet is intended to be cheap – priced around £5 - for bike rental schemes.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers from Haverford and New Jersey found the neural processes underlying visual search behavior in hawks were similar to those in humans.

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.'

Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky teamed up to for the first search and rescue mission carried out by a fleet of drones. Four unmanned aircraft worked together to put out a fire and rescue a lost camper.

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.