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YouTuber claims hundreds of UFOs can be seen taking off from the moon in video

A YouTube clip appears to show 'hundreds' of UFOs (inside the circles) leaving the moon at once. Mister Enigma shared a video of last week's super moon and claims the spaceships can be seen going around and behind the lunar surface. Many conspiracy theorists believe aliens live on the moon as a way to protect it from being destroyed by humans - although it could be just an optical illusion.

An international team led by researchers from Tohoku University has found an extremely faint dwarf galaxy, orbiting as a satellite of the Milky Way.

The research by scientists at Caltech and UCLA could pave the way to developing nip-n-tuck style procedures that reverse and slow the ageing process.

According to a new study from the University of Salzburg, roughly 70 percent of people have experienced the worry of being in a position they feel is beyond their true capabilities.

UCF researchers have revealed a new method to make super capacitors they say could change the way we charge everything from phones to cars.

In the video, a chimpanzee named Sugriva, who lives at the Myrtle Beach Safari, can be seen wearing an HTC Vive headset and swatting at the air as he follows objects on the screen.

Google updated a feature that helps users plan their time better. Popular Times now has real-time capabilities, allowing users to see how many visitors an establishment has before going inside.

The latest vending machine is located inside a pop-up shop near Central Park in Manhattan, and will stay open until New Year's Eve, with huge queues forming already.

An expert from Newcastle University explains that cryopreservation gives people false hope as specialists describe the procedure as a boundary-breaking treatment extending into the future.

When Thanksgiving goes wrong: Video reveals the horrific risks of 'exploding turkeys' as scientists explain why deep frying is so fraught 

Frying turkeys (main) has become popular of the years - it cuts cooking time in half and ensures your bird's skin is moist and the meat is juicy. But if not done properly, this technique can send your Thanksgiving up in smoke. Now, the American Chemical Society has put together a short video on the do's and dont's of turkey frying so you won't burn your house down this holiday.

Researcher from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are developing an artificial intelligence algorithm which could help to spot suicidal teens (stock image).

Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University fed the photos of 1,856 men into the AI system, which suggested who might be a criminal, based on their facial structure (stock image)

Researchers say that a catastrophic mega-earthquake in California would unleash significant devastation throughout the Golden State, resulting in the destruction of up to 3.5million homes.

Turkeys were domesticated by Native Americans long before the first Thanksgiving. New research has traced it back 1,500 years to Mexico, and the southeastern US 1,000 years later.

The University of Duke in North Carolina found that the disadvantage has ancestral roots. They also found that humans today enjoy healthier and longer lives than ever before (stock image).

Apple has not updated the product, which comes in three versions, since 2013, and Bloomberg claims employees working on the product have already been to other areas.

Scientists said this so-called chromosome periphery could help prevent errors when cells divide - a hallmark of some forms of cancer and diseases associated with birth defects.

Clickclickclick.click was developed by VPRO, a Dutch media company, and Studio Moniker, an interactive design company to create awareness on privacy in a playful manner.

NASA cameras capture huge blue spherical object

Scientists and conspiracy theorists across the world have been left stunned after Nasa cameras picked up a mysterious blue sphere moving in front of the Sun (right). Facebook user Pamela Jonhson, who lives in Mexico, shared the images from a link to Nasa's website, claiming the Sun reacted to the object. The images, taken from Nasa's STEREO satellites which orbit the Sun, show the large spectacle in clear view - before it goes missing from other frames (left).

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Reason behind Stonehenge may be revealed thanks to Neolithic complex

The 656 foot (200 metre) diameter complex consists of around 3,000 feet (950 metres) of ditches and is the first major early Neolithic monument discovered in the Stonehenge area for more than a century.The complex was built about 5,650 years ago, more than 1,000 years before the stones of Stonehenge were erected. It was discovered in a village called Larkhill in Wiltshire, just 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north east of the famous site. Stonehenge is pictured bottom left. Among their discoveries at the site, the researchers found evidence of ceramic vessels (top right) antlers and an arrowhead (bottom right).

A new study has predicted daily heat records are going to be broken far more often than cold ones in the United States.

A visitor to a Chinese tech fair was injured yesterday after a robot smashed a glass wall, according to Chinese media. Its developer said a worker had pressed a wrong button.

Netflix unveiled bizarre technology that streams content onto your eyes. Called Netflix Vista, these smart lenses play shows with a tap on the implanted chip in your neck - but it's just an ad for Black Mirror.

Tel Aviv researchers surveyed men and women at a Dutch multinational electronics firm, and found nicer females were paid less - but even the most dominant females still earn less than males.

The South Korean manufacturer's statement came days after a man in Winnipeg, Canada, claimed his Galaxy S7 (file picture) had exploded in his hands, causing second and third-degree burns.

Despite a global recall of fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, 91% percent of current Samsung users would likely purchase another, a Reuters poll has found.

Indiana University Bloomington found a link between masculine behaviour and poor mental health. They also found that alpha males are less likely to seek help (stock image).

Scientists at Copenhagen University analysed around 30 litres of seawater from where the animals seasonally gather to feed off the coast of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf.

Researchers find oldest ever red pigment in a 130 million-year-old feather in China

A team of international scientists led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences made the breakthrough that could enable us to tell what colour feathered dinosaurs were. The pigment was found in the fossilised remains of the extinct Eoconfuciusornis bird (pictured, left). Some researchers believe Tyrannosaurus rex had feathers (illustrated, right)

Researchers from Juntendo University in Tokyo, Japan, have grown new human ear hair cells, which can be used to replace faulty ones in sufferers of genetic deafness.

BAE Systems has already built and trialled a prototype at its testing ground in Telford, Shropshire, using a series of five increasingly powerful explosive tests.

The Wolfcamp Shale geologic formation in the Midland area also contains an estimated 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, the agency said in a release.

An international team, including researchers at the University of Cambridge, was able to zero in on the memory of a specific fear using a new technique and help people to overwrite it.

Researchers from the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez in Mexico City looked at how the brain changes in children after they had been given musical training.

The Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo craft (L) as seen from the Cupola module windows aboard the International Space Station on October 23, 2016 in a NASA photo obtained October 26, 2016

How does fire act in space? Researchers will soon find out, by igniting nine different materials aboard an unmanned spaceship on its way to a fiery re-entry to Earth's atmosphere, NASA said.

Coventry-based Jaguar Land Rover's technology uses footage and gait recognition that could ensure thieves do not fool the system by holding up pictures of the owner's face (stock image)

This is the Cupertino-based firm's second iPhone repair program in less than a week after it announced that it will fix the 'touch disease' issue blighting many users' iPhone 6 Plus handsets.

Playbuzz puzzle claims only the sharpest will be able to unscramble the letters

The latest puzzle from Playbuzz asks those taking part to find the hidden meaning of a series of letters that have been muddled to create a confusing pattern. Those who score over 40 per cent are said to be good problem solvers and an outside-of-the-box thinker with a creative and curious mind.

This photo provided by United Launch Alliance shows a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying GOES-R spacecraft for NASA and NOAA lifting off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 6:42 p.m. EST at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives. (United Launch Alliance via AP)

The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space on Saturday night, from Nasa's at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The new GOES-R spacecraft will track US weather as never before.

Oxford University has found they can alter the sensation of creaminess in a piece of chocolate by playing different sounds to people as they eat. Listen to the audio to see if it works for you.

The bizarre objects appeared in the skies of Halewood, near Liverpool, on Saturday afternoon and have prompted an online debate as to whether they were balloons, drones, or something else entirely.

With just three gyms per 100,000 people, Dudley tops the scale of the unhealthiest places to live. It also had five times the amount of McDonalds restaurants than the healthiest place - Bristol.

Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee say that the faces you experience as a child may leave a trace in the adult memory, and it is unlikely this effect is limited to toys.

Experts say that the ring, which was discovered in Belper, Derbyshire, could have a link to a royal figure, as sapphires were often used as a symbol of power and strength, but also wise judgement.

The video broadcasting update from Facebook-owned Instagram begins testing today and will be gradually rolled out to users around the globe in the coming weeks.

Fumbling for lost boarding passes and endless queuing at airports could be a thing of the past, with future airports featuring biometric tickets, hologram assistants and rapid molecular scanners.

Why were thousands of clay body parts buried in ancient Italy? New book aims to shed light

The book, titled 'Bodies of Evidence', takes a look a how clay feet, hands, eyes and ears, and internal body parts may have been buried in Italy as a mark of devotion to the gods. In a few centuries from the 4th to 1st century BCE, people in central Italy were burying these objects by their thousands, with large pits containing a mix of internal and external body parts. Previous research indicates that the clay votives would have been hung in temples and healing centres dedicated to gods, in the hope of being relieved of painful or debilitating conditions. Pictured right are clay ears, the central image shows a uterus and left is a clay arm and foot.

Ancient Indians used advanced farming techniques to bring in rice, bean, lentils tuck into curries, dhal and rice dishes - around 5000 years ago.

Researchers at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow found men’s brains work far harder to juggle tasks while women’s brains evolved to cope with managing the family.

Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard said Britons should instead be told to aim for one or two portions a day because ‘anything is better than none’. She says the current target is ‘not achievable’ for everyone.

The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States could herald the return of American astronauts to the surface of the Moon, space experts and observers say.

Countless bunker fish were seen floating near the water's edge on the Shinnecock Canal in Hampton Bays on Monday morning in what scientists are calling unprecedented.

Google's DeepMind borrowed from how animals dream in order to speed up its AI's learning process. After it began 'dreaming' about a game called Labyrinth, it learned stages 10 times faster.

Michael Gilmore, called for the entire programme to be restructured so enough testing can be completed - just as the controversial jet is set for its first mission.

Novartis has abandoned a 2016 goal to start testing its autofocus contact lens on people, though it said the groundbreaking product it is making with internet giant Google is 'progressing steadily.'

Airbus signs deal to start testing 'Project Vahana' prototype in Oregon next year

Vahana (pictured), Airbus's flying taxi project, is set to launch by 2020 and in order to iron out any risks, the firm has awarded SOAR Oregon and MTSI the Flight Test and Range contract to begin testing. The firms will test the vehicle, which is designed to move both cargo and passengers, at one of the three test sites in Oregon – Pendleton, Warm Springs and Tillamook.

Planet Earth viewers were stunned by rare footage of a glass frog warding off hungry wasps to protect his young - with some labelling him 'dad of the year' during last night's episode.

Facebook facing criticism for failing to stem a flood of phony news articles in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election, is taking a series of steps to weed out hoaxes and other types of false news.

As pungent toilets in developing countries force people to relieve themselves outside, the researchers are working to create a odor-cancelling cocktail in efforts to improve sanitation.

The findings suggest CO2 could be converted into stable carbonate minerals by injecting it into basalt, trapping it as solid rock – rather than letting it escape into the atmosphere – for good.

The autonomous race car made its debut on a street track at the Formula E Marrakech ePrix. The next test will involve racing two cars on the track, with the aim of having up to 10 cars competing at once.

Claudie Haignere, 59, was the first French woman in space in the 1990s but conspiracy theorists believe she tried to warn Earth of alien existence when she reportedly attempted suicide in 2008.

Italian customers will be able to buy vehicles at a price up to a third cheaper than other promotions, although the offers on Amazon.it will be limited to three models - the 500, the Panda and the 500L.

Kent and Sussex Crematorium and Cemetery in Tunbridge Wells will begin offering the service for those unable to attend services in person (stock image)

Ancient spider with a 'giant disk' on its body is caught by Chinese farmer

A farmer in China has found a rare spider with a disk attached to its abdomen, according to Chinese media. The man, who found the wild spider on his orange farm, said he planned to sell the precious find for 'a good price'. The wild spider, named Chinese hourglass spider, is extremely valuable, according to an insect expert. It is one of the earliest spiders to have been documented in China.

The teenager, who cannot be named, died last month and is now in a 'cryostat' tank at around -196C (-321F) inside the Michigan-based Cryonics Institute, it can be reported for the first time today.

The California tech firm's goal is to give users access to futuristic spatial recognition and mapping. Apple are also developing augmented reality smart glasses for release in 2018.

The bold prediction was made by Vladimir Solntsev, CEO of Russian rocket company Energia, who also said that unmanned lunar flights would begin in 2026 in preparation.

Dr Sergio Canavero, based in Turin, wants to carry out the operation next year and believes it could lead to people paralysed from the neck down being able to walk again.

Benjamin Bergen, Professor of cognitive sciences at UC San Diego, says we have many misconceptions about using foul language (stock image).

The service will be available to iPhone 6 Plus owners worldwide, however Apple said that it may limit the service to the country where the device was purchased.

Designed and built by Shenzhen-based tech firm Qihan, the diminutive Sanbot is designed to interact with people in a range of environments, from home to industry and commercial.

A team from the University of Pisa unearthed the Renaissance false teeth while excavating a family tomb where hundreds of skeletons are buried in the chapel of San Francesco.

What a self-driving Tesla 'sees' on the road: Impressive video reveals how the autonomous vehicle navigates

A video, released by Tesla, shows footage captured by three of the autonomous car's cameras while it drives itself around Palo Alto, California, where the company is based.The footage reveals exactly how much of the road a self-driving car has eyes on while it is driving. The video shows views from the car's left rearward (top right), medium range (middle right) and right rearward (bottom right) vehicle cameras as it drives itself along, navigating through busy traffic.

A new spacesuit, developed by Dutch company Mars One, will protect users from cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures and blinding dust storms.

Although women tend to live longer than men, the study by East Tennessee State University found those with the longest lifespan were men living in the nation's richest counties.

The system is being used in Wuzhen - a tourist town, which welcomes around 5,000 visitors every day. It was created by Baidu, a web firm which is often referred to as 'Chinese Google' (stock image).

San Diego-headquartered Qualcomm has released the Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0, that will fill your phone with enough power for five hours of battery life after just five minutes of charging.

China's Shenzhou-11 space capsule landed safely in the northern region of Inner Mongolia today with two astronauts, Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, aboard.

The exoplanet was spotted by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna in the Canary Islands. Rocky planets such as this are usually found in groups.

Temperatures in the Arctic climbed to staggering heights this fall, with some areas reaching more than 36 degrees Fahrenheit above normal as polar night bears down on the region.

The image of the human cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) and its binding site for the chemical THC should lead to a better understanding of how marijuana affects the brain, UT Southwestern says.

Playbuzz quiz puts perfectionists to the test with shape based questions

A new quiz from Playbuzz determines perfectionists from non-perfectionists by asking users to spot the odd one out. The player is presented with ten pictures all featuring three almost identical coloured shapes. The participant must then pick the odd shape out from the picture with each of the illustrations featuring a shape that is ever so slightly unique to its counterparts.Those who score a nine or above are said to be the ultimate perfectionist being able to spot any imperfections from a mile off.

A Columbia University astrophysicist argues that our universe may be driven by the reassembled intelligence of an alien civilization that has essentially 'disappeared into ordinary physics.'

Thieves infiltrated a customer upgrade system with a staff login and managed to steal 400 phones. Three said bank details weren't at risk. The National Crime Agency arrested three people.

The remains are now believed to belong to a miscarried 20-week gestation foetus. It is the latest in a series of discoveries by experts at Maidstone Museum in Kent.

Bengal cats - a hybrid of leopard and cat - which were first created in the U.S. in the 1970s, have come to Britain and are set to bully our own moggies.

Apple has asked one of its Asian partners who help assemble its signature product, the iPhone, to begin examining the possibility of moving production to the United States.

A researcher from Queen Mary University of London has translated Marquis de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom, which is a obscene work of fiction written in the original French language.

EXCLUSIVE: Dr George Moncreiff, GP and chair of the Dermatology Council for England, shares his wisdom on how to handle your skin.

Those affected with uncombable hair syndrome have extremely frizzy, dry, generally light blonde hair with a characteristic shine, which successfully resists any attempt to tame it.

Is THIS the end of ultrasounds? Mothers-to-be could soon watch their babies grow in 3D by using virtual reality devices

The Oculus Rift (inset) headsets will also be used to spot birth defects and allow parents to see the development of their baby from outside the womb, Brazilian researchers say. They can transform MRI scans and data into a life-like model of a foetus (left). Scientists claim it will allow parents to get realistic images of their unborn children (right), instead of blurry ultrasounds. Lead researcher Heron Werner Jr, from the Clínica de Diagnóstico por Imagem, Rio de Janeiro, said: 'The experience with the Oculus Rift has been wonderful.'

Even in skyscraper-filled Manhattan, the windowless mass of 33 Thomas Street stands out: A faceless concrete tower, topped with vents and impervious to the outside world.

Apple told Dailymail.com it offers call history syncing 'as a convenience to our customers so that they can return calls from any of their devices' and said all data was encrypted as part of its iCloud service.

A report by the Wall Street Journal suggest that Prime will likely expand to some 200 countries, which would put the firm on a level playing field with Netflix, which is available in 190 countries.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, and Imperial College, London, have shown the object that hit the planet may have slammed nearly all the way through the Earth's crust.

Petty Officer Frank Iannazzo-Simmons says the whale was spotted around 8am Thursday near Liberty Island in New York Harbor.

Conductive concrete both absorbs and reflects electromagnetic waves, and it could be used in new structures or applied through a spray-on method to retrofit existing buildings.

Experts at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore found students who napped before a test performed better than revisers. They say that last-minute revision is limited in the long run (stock image)

The coins were discovered scattered in the soil in a ploughed field near the village of Ewerby near Sleaford in Lincolnshire. Researchers believe it may have been buried by a soldier.

'Damn nature, you scary!' Planet Earth II viewers shocked (and disgusted) after 'killer of killers' jaguar brutally slays a 10ft-long ALIGATOR after pouncing from a river bank and dragging it out by its skull 

So far viewers have endured a lizard's nerve-shredding escape as it is hunted by scores of snakes and a female snow leopard being raped on a mountainside - but on tonight's episode it was another big cat taking centre-stage. The hunt of the jaguar left viewers opened mouthed, as the BBC's Planet Earth II headed to the lush but deadly jungles and forests of Madagascar and Brazil.

Facebook did not disclose financial terms of the deal to buy FacioMetrics, which was spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania ©Justin Tallis (AFP/File)

Facebook has purchased FacioMetrics, a spin out of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, to bring 'more fun effects' to users' photos and videos.

Women get a new brush or electric toothbrush head every 92 days while men stick with theirs for almost twice as long - an average of 185 days, a new survey by Carisbrook Dental in Manchester found.

You never have to decide between taking a selfie or sipping a soda again. Coca-Cola unveiled a 'selfie bottle' equip with a built-in camera and sensors that snap selfies of you mid-drink.

San Francisco-based Twitter has introduced a new way to follow people, which removes the need for having to search for them, by generating QR codes unique to each user.

The California-based company, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, has proposed an orbiting digital communications array that would consist of 4,425 satellites.

The species, discovered in a rain forest in Western China, is the first of its kind to mimic a leaf, and researchers still aren't sure why the masquerade is used.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley, found they could increase the productivity of genetically-modified tobacco plants by 14-20%.

Scientists carried out genetic analysis on the cob, known as Tehuacan162 (pictured), which was excavated from the Tehuacan Valley in the 1960s, during a major archaeological expedition.

Watch the heart-stopping moment a Tesla's 'instant acceleration' kicks in to avoid being rear ended by motorist

Jason Hughes posted a video to YouTube showing his Tesla P85D using the firm's 'fast acceleration' to avoid being rear ended on North Carolina's Highway 10. The firm usually uses its far safer 'Ludicrous mode' to show off its high speed. It's latest model, the P100D will be able to blast drivers and passengers from 0-60 mph in just 2.4 seconds with an upcoming update.

A team at Pennsylvania State University found that one object, called FRB 131104 – named after the date it was spotted – ‘whistled’ gamma-rays after the initial rapid burst of radio waves.

University of St Andrews researchers believe men prefer bigger women because skinnier women tend to look more frail and show an inability to reproduce.

This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions, HA.com shows the world's earliest-known stone inscription of the Ten Commandments ¿ a two-foot square slab of white marble, weighing about 115 pounds and inscribed in an early Hebrew script called Samaritan, that sold for $850,000 Wednesday evening, Nov. 16, 2016, at a public auction of ancient Biblical archaeology artifacts held by Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Matt Roppolo/Heritage Auctions, HA.com via AP)

The 2ft (0.6m) square marble slab sold at a public auction in Beverly Hills. The 4th century AD tablet weighs about 115lbs (52kg) and is inscribed in an early Hebrew script called Samaritan.

More than 1,700 people from North America and Europe were asked about their connectivity habits, preferences and expectations, and their dependence on mobile connectivity (stock image)

Frank Buckland was born in 1826 in Oxford, son of a geology professor there. He loved animals and in later life he tasted all sorts of animal meat in the hope of finding a new source of food for mankind.

The action was taken by Roskomnadzor, Russia's communications watchdog, and the Kremlin has refused to interfere with the ruling, declaring that it was 'in accordance with the law.

Claudie Haignere, 59, was the first French woman in space in the 1990s but conspiracy theorists believe she tried to warn Earth of alien existence when she reportedly attempted suicide in 2008.

A lack of air during a night's rest makes tumours grow quicker by releasing exosomes - key in the communication between cells, researchers from Chicago and Barcelona universities found.

Images reveal 'crater of light' on Ceres in unprecedented detail

The brightest area on Ceres can be seen standing out from within its shadowy, cratered terrain in a dramatic new view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Over 130 of the bright patches are dotted across the dwarf planet which brighten and fade during the day - for reasons that continue to be a mystery. The latest research suggests that the bright material in this crater is comprised of salts left behind after a briny liquid emerged from below, froze and then sublimated, meaning it turned from ice into vapor.

A project delved back as far as the Norman Conquest to examine 45,600 surnames that are carried by more than 100 people. It found that 40,000 had ancient origins in Britain and Ireland.

The A320 aircraft with up to 165 passengers on board nearly collided with the remote controlled drone just 650ft east of the Shard skyscraper, central London, on July 18.

Tens of thousands of reindeer have died in the Yamal peninsula in northern Siberia due to the ground being covered with thick ice for months leaving the animals unable to graze.

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

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.

Elon Musk has revealed the car's special 'ludicrous mode', which already makes it the world's fastest production car, it about to get a speed boost.

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.

Not again! Are these flip flops blue and gold or white and gold? 

A new image is reviving the craze of 'the dress' as Twitter users ask one another 'what color do you see?' A pair of flip flops is causing the same chaos as viewers try to decide what color they see. Falsiane, a Portuguese Twitter account, posted an image of flip flops on Thursday night. The image has a clear color distortion and while some see the flip flops as gold and white, others see black and blue. The image has been liked more than a thousand times as people debate what color they see.

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.

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.

In a study of more than 2,000 men and women over 11 years, Finnish researchers found the 121 people who died of heart disease had a gloomier outlook than the rest.

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.

The amulet was discovered in Mehragarh, Pakistan and analysed as part of a recent study by researchers from the Ipanema research centre near Paris, France.

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.

Claims ANOTHER UFO has been spotted hurtling past the international space station as Nasa cuts live feed

A fast-moving object spotted flying by the International Space Station moments before its livestream went dead has conspiracy theorists claiming NASA is covering up proof of a UFO. In the footage from the ISS channel uploaded to YouTube by user ColdPyro , a white speck can be seen emerging from the darkness just above Earth’s horizon. Right before the 'UFO' travels out of view, the feed cuts to a grey screen, followed by a statement asking users to ‘please stand by’ due to technical issues.

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.

Dr Hugh Lewis gave the grave warning at the Royal Astronomical Society, London at the launch of 'Adrift', a new science and arts project aimed at raising awareness of space junk.

To prepare for catastrophic earthquakes, roughly 1,200 emergency responders carried out drills across California in a week-long exercise known as 'Vigilant Guard.'

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.

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.

Archaeologists with the Australian National University say the artefact is more than 46,000 years old, and was worn through the nose of one of Australia’s earliest inhabitants.

Experts from the University of Southern California says kids feel that unless two people make eye contact, they can't see each other.

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.

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.

A Japanese firm is one step closer to bringing Jurassic Park to life with a dinosaur theme park called 'Dino-A-Live that features full-sized, life-like dinosaur robots. ON-ART plans to open it in 5 years.

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.

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.

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.

One Alien hunter claims to have spotted a shrine for the King of Mars on the red planet. Found in an image from the Curiosity rover, the face appears to be of an old man with a beard and crown on his head.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not everyone will see a solar eclipse in their lifetime, but photographer György Soponyai took 72 pictures of the event in Norway last year and stitched them together for one stunning image.

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.

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.

The Object 4202 rocket was fired thousands of miles from the Yasny Launch Base in Russia to the far-east peninsula of Kamchatka with Kremlin officials calling the test a 'success'.

The drawing game is the work of California-based Google's Creative Lab and Data Arts Team and is based on neural networks, enabling it to learn as it goes along.

California-headquartered Google has found a way of letting you experience what it is like to be in even the most distant parts of world, without even leaving your house.

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.

Scott Thomas, 51 from Rhos-on-Sea Wales, received the smartwatch as a present from his wife and says that it enabled him to spot an abnormally low heart rate.

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.

       

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British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.

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British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.

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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.

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