Science

Environmental groups called for a comprehensive ban speaking at an event on Greenpeace's ship Esperanza, which is moored near Tower Bridge in London.

The Government rejected an appeal by Gladman Developments to build 119 homes in Goostrey, Cheshire, over its potential harm to the scientific work of nearby observatory Jodrell Bank.

Facebook is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content, the firm has revealed.

High intensity HIIT workouts are increasingly popular among woman in their 20s, but an expert has warned they subject the pelvic floor to 'abnormal forces' that could result in leakages.

Russian construction firm Dahir Insaat produces houses that appear just like the average home but are capable of neatly folding up into a truck that can be driven away.

Dozens of slinky, ferocious and rare ferrets are settling in and making babies at their new home in Colorado, one year after they were released at a wildlife refuge outside Denver.

University of Sydney has discovered 1500 viruses in common insects, spiders, worms. New technology can also answer questions about the controversial Lyme disease. Surprising results released Thursday.

An international team of researchers analyzed the behaviour of more than 140 children in the United States aged 2-and-a-half using a methodology known as the 'false belief task.'

Dr Sergio Canavero said the UK could be the 'most promising place' in Europe to conduct the procedure, after a VR system that will 'prepare patients for life in a new body' was unveiled in Glasgow last week.

HiMirror analyzes your skin and provides product recommendations based on your data to help reverse some signs of ageing - and all you have to do is take a make-up free selfie everyday.

The study was carried out by the Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat in Arles, France, a research centre for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands.

Researchers from Ohio State University found evidence of a huge rift forming in the base of the ice shelf in 2013. This kind of rifting adds to the probability that West Antarctica could collapse.

The site in Mexico City, is believed to have been built to worship the god of wind, Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, one of the Mexica-Tlatelolca people's principal deities.

Researchers from Switzerland and South Africa studied groups of vervet monkeys at the Mawana Game Reserve, and saw just how manipulation of males by the females when fighting.

Nasa says the suit design must be capable of keeping crew members alive for more than 144 hours, effectively dealing with their solid and liquid waste. The contest is open for global entries.

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.

A design team from Rome has created the concept watercraft, called UFO 2.0, that could be used for several purposes including hotel reception, gym or a floating restaurant.

Researchsers say Ethiopian church forests might be ground zero for a new dominant ant species, Lepisiota canescens, with high global invasion potential

A recent fall in global average temperatures over land has been caused by the end of El Nino - the warming of surface waters in a vast area of the Pacific west of Central America.

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.

The UMass Boston team excavated a trove of 17th century artifacts at Burial Hill in Massachusetts- but they say the discovery of a calf skeleton confirmed that they'd found a location inside the settlement.

Stunning images of the nasty parasites that could be lurking around your home have been revealed by a British scientist who collected samples from his home and garden in Milton Keynes.

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.

Unlikely areas, including Peckham in south London, and Milton Keynes, could be ideal areas for sauvignon blanc and chardonnay, according to a study by University College London.

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.

When Mario Gmür, from Switzerland, started scrutinising paperclips bent by his patients, he found the twisted wire revealed a multitude about the creator's character, quirks and hidden desires.

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.

A new drone video reveals Apple's $5b mothership is nearly complete. Most of the walls and solar panels are in place for Apple Campus 2 and it appears to be on-track for the 2017 move in date.

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

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

A Brooklyn-based firm unveiled a modern take on the analog digital sign. Breakfast's display has thousands of plastic discs that flip between two colored sides to make images and videos.

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.

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.

Researchers from Dartmouth Collegemapped 4 million journey flows to create the series of stunning visualisations - and rewrite the map of America.

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.

A new festive puzzle asks users to spot the odd Santa out in the image, with one out of more than 160 bearded figures carrying a sack overflowing with cash rather than presents.

The lucky gamer, who is based in Illinois, is a professional Halo player who regularly posts gameplay on streaming site Twitch. The donation came from a Twitch user known only as AC Royale.

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.

The body of Xin Zhui, also called the Lady of Dai who died more than 2,000 years ago, is considered the best preserved mummy ever discovered after being found in a tomb in China.

Egypt has unearthed a more than 7,000-year-old city and cemetery dating back to its First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday.

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.

The United Family of Anomaly Hunters, a group of UFO hunters based around the world, presented the evidence of 'walled cities' near Mars' equator, at Elysium Planitia, in a YouTube video.

The bones of a people who died from the Black Death have been uncovered by a Sheffield University team, near a monastery hospital at Thornton Abbey, near Immingham, North Lincolnshire.

A new film has shown the face of the U.S.S. Arizona to the world nearly 75 years after it was sunk when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SolarStratos has revealed its plans for a five hour mission to space and back, during which the plane and pilot will be subjected to frigid temperatures and extremely low pressures.

South Korean professor Dr Hwang Woo Suk has gifted the dogs - each valued at $100,000 - for use by police and the FSB secret service in Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region in the world.

A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found a marker in the blood that detects the building blocks of cancer, chronic heart disease and a range of other serious conditions.

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.

A new spot the object puzzle from Playbuzz is asking users to find the unique snowflake in a series of pictures. In each of the 12 images spotting the snowflake proves fiendishly tricky as the difference is barely noticeable.

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.

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

TIM, the Train Inspection Monorail, has been deployed for an array of purposes, from capturing real-time measurements to pulling small wagons. It runs on the tracks of the former LEP monorail.

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.

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.

A Royal Navy warship had to be towed back into port with 'technical issues' just two days after leaving. HMS Duncan was among a group of four NATO ships that visited Devonport at the weekend.

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.

Three amateur researchers from Victoria captured a few grainy seconds of footage of a dog-like creature walking through the bush, which they claim could be a Tasmanian Tiger.

The results from the 'heroic age' of polar exploration suggest Antarctic ice naturally swings between period of high and low ice cover. The study was carried out by Reading University.

Taken by Jennifer Khordi of Caters News from 14 miles away in New Jersey, the rare photo reveals the crescent sliver of a 3 percent moon behind the Empire State Building on Nov 27.

The radical concept of a fuel-free 'impossible' engine has now gained far more credibility. Now, the findings from NASA's Eagleworks Laboratories have officially been peer-reviewed and published.

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.

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.

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 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'.

Of the 1,200 respondents who participated in the Panamanian survey, far more people reported an increased sexual appetite after a UFO sighting than feelings of terror.

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.

The service, called Deseat.me, has been designed by Swedish programmers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck to help people delete their online accounts.

Winston Beauchamp, speaking at a summit in Washington DC, said despite ongoing worldwide political tension, nations must work together to achieve the goal of moving to other planets.

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.

Chevy says the Bolt is the first electric car to get more than 200 miles per charge (238 to be exact) and fit most buyers' budgets (around $30,000, after a government tax credit).

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.