Science

Engineers at Palo Alto-based technology company Instrumental were not satisfied with Samsung's explanation for the flaming phones, so decided to find one and take it apart to examine it.

The bacteria, found in New Mexico, developed the resistance through chemical warfare with other bacteria. Ohio University says the superbug may lead to new methods for fighting resistance.

The Wall Street Journal says technical problems with getting both earphones to play music at the same time are the problem.

The average weight of adult reindeer on Svalbard, a chain of islands north of Norway, has fallen to 48 kg (106 lb) from 55 kg (121 lb) in the 1990s as temperatures rise.

Andrew Lane, 61, contracted an infection after surgery to remove his prostate gland at Southend Hospital, Essex. It damaged his genitals so badly and he is now no longer able to have sex.

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.

Bairen, located in central China's Hebei Province, was founded in 624 BC and flooded in 742AD. Archaeologists are excavating the ruins for the first time since the founding of P.R.C.

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.

Engineers at Cornell University in New York have looked to a different approach for robotic sensation, incorporating stretchable sensors which use light to carry signals.

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.

After lighting up the sky above the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, the night plunged back into darkness and 30 seconds later witnesses reported a loud bang which triggered car alarms.

Scientists at Stanford University have found that the transition of driving control from an autonomous vehicle back to a human is risky, compromising driving performance (stock image).

Developed by a team at Washington University in St Louis, the artificial red blood cells carry oxygen to tissues and have already been shown to be effective in animal transfusions.

Professor Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, advises that attention is limited resource, and the brain has a limited capacity for multitasking.

London-based nutritionist Cassandra Barns says that you should ditch coffee a healthier alternative, such as matcha tea. Making the transition will provide you with a much needed energy boost.

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.

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.

University of Cambridge Scientists have trawled through hundreds of GCSE papers and concluded that teenagers do not on the whole take their text speak into the exam hall.

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.

The ground-breaking solar plane, dubbed SolarStratos, was officially unveiled at a hangar in Payerne, Switzerland and is set to fly to the stratosphere.

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.

Zo runs through Kik, a global messaging app, similar to Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. The chatbot can answer questions and respond to prompts, while using teenage slang, and emoji.

Scientists at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory have named the asteroid 2015 TC25. As well as being the smallest, it is one of the fastest ever found.

Aerial images have revealed remnants and wrecks from the Pacific conflict in the Second World War, scattered across the Solomon Islands and Northern Mariana Islands.

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.

Giraffes and African Grey parrots are being pushed to extinction, a shocking wildlife report has revealed, along with one in 10 species of birds around the globe.

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.

The beautiful creature, officially called a crinoid, was filmed by Dutch diver Els van den Eijnden off the coast of Bali. Crinoids are not uncommon in areas where coral grows but rarely swim.

The move fuels speculation that the Air Force will give up trying to retire the A-10 for the foreseeable future, a move several top service officials have recently alluded to.

London-based firm Blippar has added the Augmented Reality Face Profile feature to its app enabling users to scan - or 'blipp' a face, either in person, or from an image or TV to find out more about them.

The new theory claims the 17th century Salem witch trials were sparked by tainted rye, which caused seizures, pain and hallucinations in locals - which were put down to witchcraft.

Carbon dating revealed that the remains discovered at medieval Beckery Chapel, near Glastonbury, Somerset were from the 5th or early 6th Century AD. Around 50 to 60 male skeletons were uncovered.

Researchers from the University Museum of Zoology Cambridge discovered five new species of four-legged vertebrates in the Scottish Borders.

Alien hunters reported seeing a golden cigar-shaped UFO near the International Space Station in live NASA web feed. Some say the aliens inside are investigating the astronauts' thoughts.

Researchers at Stanford University crafted tiny goggles using lenses from human laser safety goggles, 3D-printed sockets and veterinary tape.

The initial concept was created in the Netherlands. Now the Utrecht-based firm is distributing the bikes to several countries, including the US and Mexico.

KU Leuven Institute of Astronomy, Belgium, studied a star called L2 Puppis, which, 5 billion years ago, was an almost identical twin of our sun today. A planet around it is currently in its death throes.

High-resolution maps created with more than 3 million satellite images reveal how natural processes and human activity have dramatically altered the global water distribution in 32 years.

A fascinating new global map has pinpointed what different countries in the world are the best at. The results range from the macabre to the mind-boggling.

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.

Beijing-based French scientists have crafted a real-time map of the Earth's air pollution in an attempt to raise awareness of the effect contaminants are having on the globe.

If you can't visit New York City to see the holiday displays, then Google has an app for you. Called Window Wonderland, this app takes users on a virtual tour to 18 different storefronts in Manhattan.

San Diego engine firm Achates has revived an old car engine design. The design was originally inefficient and unclean, but a decade of development has ironed out the flaws.

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.

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.

Archive pictures and video from 1984 show a Boeing 720 being flown into the ground and erupting in flames in California in a crash designed to test a new fuel additive and safety features.

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 secrets of Air Force One has been divulged, revealing some of the amazing features that make 'the Flying White House' the most high-tech - and most luxurious - aircraft in the world.

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.

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 incredible scene was spotted over St Petersburg and is the result of a rare phenomenon known as 'snow dogs'. These bright halos are created by light refracting through ice crystals in the air.

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.

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.

Students at the Rhode Island School of Design have come up with a new, adjustable suit that closely resembles an actual space suit, and NASA plans to use it for its Hawaii simulation missions.

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

New psychedelic images of the many vitamins and drugs that fly around the human body have been revealed by photomicrographer, Dennis Kunkel from Hawaii.

The new design can be embedded into the aircraft's wings. It could boost fuel efficiency by up to 8%, and reduce drag and weight, NASA said.

A series of new images reveals the most detailed glimpse yet at Fyodor, the Russian spacebot bound for the International Space Station. The humanoid robot lift weights, and can drive a car.

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.

Researchers from the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Frankfurt have managed to capture footage of two tardigrades mating for the first time.

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.

The new images include an up-close look at the moon Tethys, detailed views of Saturn’s atmosphere from high above the northern hemisphere and new pictures of the rings themselves.

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.

Cupertino-based Apple is said to be introducing drones in order to map locations and update its maps more quickly than its current fleet of mapping vans allows.

A rocket bound for the International Space Station carrying the net blasted off from the southern island of Tanegashima at around 10:30 pm local time (13:30 GMT).

Lexus has wrapped their 2017 SI Sedan in 41,999 programmable LEDs, transforming it into a screen on wheels that is capable of broadcasting glittering graphics and multi-coloured animations.

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.

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.