Nasa's Spirit Mars rover may have spotted signs of life on the red planet in 2007

UPDATED It’s been five years since NASA ended the Spirit rover’s mission, but now, researchers say the robot may have discovered traces of life during its Mars investigation. A team of geoscientists has discovered that silica deposits from a region on the red planet dubbed ‘Home Plate’ (pictured) closely resemble those that form in Chilean hot springs at El Tatio. On Earth, these complex finger-like structures arise from a combination of biological and non-biological activity, suggesting a similar process may have taken place on Mars. Samples from Mars are shown on the top left, with those from El Tatio on the right.

The flaw has been discovered in 2.8 million Android phones sold outside of China by manufacturers including BLU and LEAGOO that make them vulnerable to hacks.

NEW Israeli researchers have created software that turns your headphones into a microphone. The code reverses a computer's outputs to inputs to eaves drop behind the scenes from upto 20 feet away.

The Catholic App, which has been developed by Musemantik, is to be launched in Scotland in early 2017 with the aim of boosting attendance numbers at Holy Mass and Confession.

NEW The new app, being released on December 12th, will allow Oculus Rift owners to stream Xbox One games directly into their headset via a Windows 10 PC.

NEW A video from the Slow Mo Guys, filmed at up to 120,000 frames per second, reveals how sync gear prevented disasters in the air, allowing bullets to narrowly zoom by just before the blades pass.

NEW NASA's food scientists are working to develop high-calorie products that will taste good and help the astronauts keep a healthy weight. Replacing a meal with bars will help to reduce mass on Orion.

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2016 file photo, the future USS Zumwalt heads down the Kennebec River after leaving Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, on it's way to be commissioned. The Zumwalt, the most expensive destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy, suffered an engineering problem in the Panama Canal Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, and had to be towed to port. Third Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Ryan Perry said a vice admiral has directed the ship to remain at ex-Naval Station Rodman in Panama to address the issues. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

The most expensive destroyer ever built for the Navy, costing $4.4bn, suffered an engineering problem in the Panama Canal and had to be towed to port - for the second time.

Researchers used NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter' ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument to make over 600 passes of the area in the Utopia Planitia region.

Your iPhone can be unlocked by a HEDGEHOG: Video reveals TouchID can store a tiny pawprint as experts question the security of fingerprints

To protect your devices, security experts often recommend having a backup method of authentication – but, they probably didn’t mean your pet hedgehog. In an adorable new video, a hedgehog named Sashimi can be seen using her tiny paw to unlock an iPhone, successfully passing through the TouchID sensor. It works just like it would for a person, requiring the print be pressed multiple times onto the home button in order to capture its unique design.

British researchers are recruiting anyone in the world to help them determine if the life hack of rubbing garlicky hands on something made from stainless steal really nullifies the stink.

One version of the design shown in the patent leaves the screen hidden when the phone is folded in two, similar to clamshell phones of the past.

Toys have gotten more high tech to keep screen-obsessed children engaged with such play - and the latest can even teach them as they play.

Researchers are hoping to use techniques developed to 'cloak' objects and make them appear invisible to protect buildings from earthquakes.

In this image taken from NASA video recorded on Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough shows a pouch of turkey he will be preparing for his crew in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, aboard the International Space Station. (NASA via AP)

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, the station's commander, is serving as Thanksgiving chef for the six-person crew,and has revealed what they will all be eating - and watching.

The election could turn your holidays upside down, but an expert from the University of Michigan says we should use this time to discuss issues that serve as a bridge across our political divides.

The award-winning prototype was developed by researchers at Nottingham Trent university and Reutlingen-based German textile machine manufacturer Stoll.

Mountaineer instructor Patrick Hickie captured the spectacular 'Asperitas' formation over Ogwen Valley in Snowdonia. The seldom-seen clouds are named after the Latin for 'roughness'.

Say hello to the 194mph zero emissions NIO EP9 hypercar

Zero to 62mph in 2.7 seconds with zero tailpipe emissions. That's the promise from Chinese electric car brand NextEV, which will make just six of these $1.2 million road racers for its investors. And if you're too impatient to wait three-quarters of an hour for the batteries to charge, you can eject the two lithium-ion packs from the side of the vehicle and replace them in eight minutes.

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Tricky vision test claims just one in four people will be able to spot all colours

There is a new quiz by Playbuzz taking the Internet by storm. It is an eye test which asks how many colours you can spot on the spectrum. There are four different answers to choose from and they will determine whether you are a dichromat, trichromat, tetrachromat or just plain wrong!

The promo says free two-day delivery will be available on all in-stock items ordered by 5:00 p.m., and encourages visitors to learn about extended hours in nearby Apple Stores.

Apple is still unclear as to what causes the glitch, but the video is reportedly hosted on a Russian social networking site, Miaopai. A force reboot of the device should resolve the issue.

Once activated, the feature automatically detects places with free Wi-Fi near your location and marks them on your map. It is not known which countries currently have access to the new feature.

Scientists from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands found that while the effect was small, it could make the difference between winning and losing.

A new report by the United Nations International Telecommunications Union shows that in the world's developed countries about 80 per cent of the population use the internet.

FILE- In this Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 file photo, a Dodo skeleton, Raphus cucullatus, from Mauritius is displayed at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, southern England. Summers Place Auctions has sold a composite dodo skeleton to a private collector for £346,300 pounds ($430,000), including buyer¿s premium on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

The extinct bird was sold for £350,000 by Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, West Sussex, who said it was a bit of an unknown entity because it is such a rare item.

A Facebook user from Mexico shared the images claiming the sun 'reacted' to the object. Others said it was a wormhole. But Alex Young, a Nasa scientist offered a simple explanation.

The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into an accident involving an enormous experimental drone belonging to Facebook which crashed earlier this year.

'Hello, is this planet Earth?' British astronaut Tim Peake takes you on a mesmerising tour

A new book, titled 'Hello, Is This Planet Earth?', reveals more than 150 incredible image taken by Chichester-born astronaut Tim Peake during his historic mission to space. Seen here are some of the highlights. Clockwise from top left: the robotic arm of the ISS over Tunisia, Tim Peake on his spacewalk, an illuminated view of London from space, the distinctive Dubai coastline, an aurora over northern Canada, and Nam Co lake in China.

The 656 foot diameter complex consists of around 3,000 feet of ditches. It was discovered in a village called Larkhill in Wiltshire, just 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north east of the famous site.

The girl of 14, from London, announced her wish to be cryo-preserved – after all treatment options failed – in the hope that doctors will eventually find a cure for her illness and bring her back to life.

A group of researchers from the University of Lincoln and Lancaster University studied hundreds of people and their relationships with their phones, in the first study to show a link between personality and phone type.

Hackers have attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries this year, using software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm Group IB.

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Michigan, discovered the LITE-1 taste receptor in millimetre-long roundworms, known as nematodes.

London-based drinks giant Diageo has released the video to show the devastating effects of driving whilst under the influence of alcohol and the damage it can do to people's lives.

Hyperloop futuristic pod prototype construction begins in Las Vegas

Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Los Angeles based start-up Hyperloop One are bringing Elon Musk's Hyperloop vision a step closer to reality. The first tube of a 'DevLoop' system, which could be set to become the first full Hyperloop system, has been installed in a desert in Las Vegas. The two companies, along with engineering and architecture firms AECOM and Arup, are working to introduce the world's first Hyperloop in Dubai

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.

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.

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.

How Nasa's super satellite will 'revolutionise' weather forecasts: Animation reveals the stunning details it sees on Earth

Images from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), based in Maryland, show how the next generation of weather satellites will track meteorological changes. The GOES-R satellite will have ‘five times faster coverage rate and four times better spatial resolution’ compared with previous GOES imagers.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Octopus is nearly impossible to spot before it breaks cover to flee from shocked diver 

This colour-changing octopus is a master of disguise, and when it doesn't want to be seen it blends perfectly into the background. The shapeshifter, which was filmed in the Maldives, dazzled divers with a mesmerising show as it camouflaged and contorted itself along the ocean floor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Earthquake, tsunamis… and even a METEORITE! Video footage captures powerful 7.4-magnitude tremor near Fukushima and flaming objects in the sky above Japan 

Dramatic footage shows a flaming object trailing across the evening sky (right) while Japan was still assessing the damage from the 7.4-magnitude tremor. Alarms rang out in towns across Fukushima prefecture - where the 2011 earthquake wreaked havoc - and further along Japan's eastern coastline. Around an hour later, a tsunami flowed inland and up the Suna'oshi River in Tagajo (left) - a city devastated in the 2011 earthquake - almost bursting its banks. Video taken by a 16-year-old known as Asuka then showed a mysterious burning light crossing the night sky.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nasa finally publishes controversial fuel free 'impossible drive' paper

The radical concept of a fuel-free ‘impossible’ engine has now gained far more credibility. In recent weeks, a leaked version of the paper stirred up controversy as it appeared to show that scientists had created a working EmDrive prototype. Now, the findings have officially been peer-reviewed and published. It’s said that the EmDrive could get humans to Mars in just 10 weeks, but experts have long argued that idea cannot be brought to life as the engine defies the fundamental laws of physics.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

The web firm is said to have enquired about gaining live rights for football, basketball and baseball in order to create a premium, exclusive sports package for Amazon Prime customers.

The stunning animal, which is black due to a genetic mutation, was spotted by Paul Stevens, a 67-year-old retired engineer from Portland, south Dorset.

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.

Customers will be able to withdraw up to £100 at cash machines inside branches, either by tapping their Android smartphones or by using their contactless debit cards.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Facebook user Pamela Jonhson, who lives in Mexico, shared the images from a link to Nasa's website, but she claims it is nothing to be alarmed by.

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 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.

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.

The strange insect was caught by a farmer in China last week. The wild spider is extremely valuable, according to an insect expert. The farmer plans to sell the spider as pet for 'a good price'.

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.

The hunt of the world's most powerful big cat left viewers opened mouthed as the BBC's Planet Earth II headed to the lush but deadly jungles and forests of Madagascar and Brazil.

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.

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.