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Just in time for Christmas: Invisible, edible food coating DOUBLES your fruit and veg's shelf life

NEW The new plant-based powder, developed by California startup Apeel, could help to tackle global food waste problems. The powder is made from uneaten food material such as orange peels, stems, and leaves. These are blended into a finely blended powder that can be used to create a coating which protects produce from rotting. This image shows how quickly strawberries rot with (top half) and without (bottom half) the new coating.

NEW The popular blogging website Tumblr was reportedly taken down by hackers for two hours yesterday evening. A group of hackers, known as R.I.U. Star Patrol, have since claimed responsibility.

NEW Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at California-based Global Equities Research, renowned for analysis of technology stocks, issued a note on Tuesday that the company was 'toast'.

ETAN SMALLMAN has spoken to scientists, mathematicians and world champions of the board games we all play at Christmas — and here he passes on their advice on the winning techniques

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen suggest avoiding social media throughout the Christmas and New Year period to avoid feeling miserable.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said on Wednesday it revoked the registration of 16 Uber self-driving cars after a weeklong battle with the ride-services company..

The world almost ground to a halt one morning 11 months ago after an error occurred on one of the global positioning satellites (GPS) orbiting the Earth which might appear small, but is hugely significant.

NHS England will fund it for ten patients in a 12-month pilot starting next month. They will then be assessed for a year before officials decide whether to roll the system out more widely in early 2019.

The research by scientists in Norway suggests that although, in general, men can cope with more pain than women, women seem to be more able to cope with the specific pain of a heart attack.

Can YOU solve this mince pie puzzle? Tricky festive brainteaser leaves the internet

The puzzle, by London-based Alex Bellos, asks you to convert six straight rows each containing four mince pies, into seven straight rows each containing four mince pies, by moving just four pies. The classic puzzle was first devise by Henry Ernst Dudeney in 1896, but 120 years on, it is still leaving people stumped.

The second brightest star in the Orion constellation, Betelgeuse sits on the hunter's shoulder and, if latest findings are correct, could have had a sister star in relatively close proximity.

In this Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, photo, a person searches the internet for sales, in Miami. With the holidays fast approaching, more people are using their smartphones and other devices to get a handle on their last-minute shopping. Hackers are on the hunt too, looking to steal personal information from easy targets. But experts say a few precautions can go a long way in protecting yourself from cyber Scrooges. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

With Christmas just days away, people are using their smartphones and other devices for last-minute shopping - but experts warn hackers are on the hunt as well.

Facebook has begun testing a live audio streaming service that will let people essentially broadcast radio-style on the leading online social network.

Disney-ABC Television Group has joined forces with Snapchat to produce shows in Stories. Starting Jan. 3, a recap series of 'The Bachelor', called 'Watch Party: The Bachelor', will debut.

According to the leaked documents, the high-tech Ferrari phone will boast wireless charging, an 'invisible' home button, and a plastic, curved display.

Scientists at Cardiff University have found that a small head tilt increases the sound of speech by four decibels which can be the difference between hearing nothing and hearing perfectly.

A Norwegian firm has developed a drone capable of carrying a person. Called the GRIFF 300, this octocopter can lift 225kg (496lbs) and fly for 30-45mins on a single charge.

German newspaper SZ-Magazin claims it has gained access to Facebook's 'secret rules' for deleting hate speech and offensive content. 'Protected categories' include race, sex, religion.

Forget Tesla: Incredible images reveal the quirky electric cars of old that paved the way

From horseless carriages to modern-day roadsters, engineers and designers have been tinkering under the bonnet for more than a 150 years to try and perfect to electric car. Aside from spikes in production related to disruption of oil supply, electric vehicles have seen times when they were little more than milk floats and golf buggies. But analysts forecast the appetite for electric vehicles is only set to increase. Clockwise from top left: an electric carriage built by Thomas Parker from 1895, the 1970s Elcar from Italian automaker Zagato, the Corbin Sparrow from the late 1990s, and Peugeot's VLV model from the 1940s

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Russia's nuclear-powered ice-breaker in the race to control the Arctic

The ice-breaking craft, which has been named 'Leader', is designed to keep the Northern Sea Route, along the country's Arctic coast, open all year round. It would have a working capacity of 110 megawatts and would be capable of cutting through ice up to 4.5 metres (14.8 feet) deep.

Uber has added a new feature that makes it easier to request a ride to your friend's location. Instead of places or addresses, users can now type in the name of a friend or family who also uses the app.

Filed in courts in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich, and the Eastern District of Texas, it covers patents for displays, user interfaces, software, antennas, chipsets and video coding.

WhatsApp, which is owned by California-based Facebook has not yet confirmed the existence of the new edit and delete features.

The International Space Station will orbit Earth at 17,500 miles/hour, and at an altitude of roughly 200 miles. It will pass over the UK at around 5pm GMT, and over the US at around 4:40pm ET.

An expert from Nottingham Trent University reveals most children have discovered the truth about Santa by age 7, but will continue the lie in order to receive gifts they want for Christmas.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,800-year-old garden in British Columbia, with its own rock wall, wooden digging tools and the remains of a crop known as the 'Indian potato'.

California start-up firm Energous is believed to be working on a mid-range wireless charging transmitter which could work over distances up to 15 feet (4.5 metres).

Nintendo' first Mario smartphone title has set a download record but gamers baulked at the one-time cost, prompting investors to push the Japanese game makers' stock to a one-month low.

The animation that reveals how the world's largest cities have shifted around the globe in the last 4,000 years

A new animation reveals how the world’s largest city has shifted over the last 4,000 years. The visualization was shared on Reddit by demographer Simon Kuestenmacher, and shows the world’s transformation from cities that once peaked at just thousands, to the megacities of today. The expert predicts Delhi, India will be the most populous region by the year 2050, with 40,000,000 people living within its borders.

While they may be old enough to drive, vote, marry, people younger than 30 are still not fully maturem says Dr Leah Somerville at Harvard's Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab.

A team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has suggested the mysterious luminosity fluctuations of Tabby's star may be intrinsic to the star itself.

Researchers from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Bologna, Italy, found that the supervolcano may be reaching a 'critical pressure point'.

Researchers found the ghost-like, deep-sea octopods lay their eggs on the dead stalks of sponges attached to seafloor nodules rich in increasingly valuable metals used in cell phones and computers.

Although Groupon says it hasn't been hacked itself, the firm has confirmed global users have been compromised, with hackers using usernames and passwords acquired in attacks of other sites.

One of Netflix Inc's Twitter accounts was hacked on Wednesday by an entity calling itself 'OurMine'. Several mocking tweets were sent from the Netflix US Twitter account (@netflix).

Researchers from Charles University in Prague made the discovery after carrying out a study 36,564 people in Slovakia and the Czech Republic , some with toxoplasmosis and some who were parasite-free.

The study from various research institutes including the Aarhus University in Denmark, tracked the birds using laser range finders and radar.

Watch an incredible life-sized Iron Man suit in action: Automated replica has 567 parts - and it could be yours for £290,000

The Shenzhen-based firm 'The Toys Asia' crafted the replica, which has 46 motors powering 567 parts and costs over £290,000 ($360,000). The action figure can completely open up, just as it does in the films. A push of the figure's remote begins a 28-second long transformation. The figure's detail inside captures that of Tony Stark's suit in unprecedented detail. This image shows the figurine's mask opening up to reveal the inside of its head.

The breath test, which costs as little as £24, was found to work as well as a dog's nose when tried on more than 1,400 patients in a study led by the Israel Institute of Technology.

Scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology claim NASA's results 're-confirm' what they'd already achieved, and have plans to implement it in satellites 'as quickly as possible.'

Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, explained in a recent TED Talk how atmospheric escape could cause our planet to eventually dry up.

Reproducing sexually makes us much more resistant to infection as we are better able to adapt to the threat of a changing environment, researchers believe.

Expecting food, they are more likely to swim toward boats which increases the risk of dolphins being hit by the boat or its propellors, and also to become entangled in fishing gear.

In the past few weeks, Virgin Media customers in some areas of the UK have been complaining of regular internet outages during peak browsing periods.

Scientists from the New York Genome Center and UC Berkley have traced back the region of the genome responsible for adaptations to the cold back thousands of years, to find its origin.

Instagram released holiday themed stickers in the latest update that can overlay on photos and videos. However, the update may have caused mentions to stop working for some users.

Chinese researchers claimed they had trained an AI computer to predict a woman's personality solely based on her looks. Wu Xiaolin and his team analysed images of 3,954 women.

This is according to London-based Dr David Levy, author of 'Love and Sex with Robots', who was speaking at the Love and Sex with Robots conference, held at Goldsmith's University.

Salamanders will walk nine MILES for sex, bizarre mini treadmill study finds

Some salamanders would walk six miles, crossing rocks, fields, and streams, in pursuit of a mate – and some would walk three miles more. While most tend to mate close to home, some salamanders are known to traverse up to nearly nine miles to reach new breeding sites, according to a new study. Using a tiny treadmill to observe their behaviour, researchers found that the tireless creatures can walk for more than two hours without wearing themselves out, the equivalent of a human jogging lightly for 75 miles straight.

Researchers in the US have replicated the earliest stages of ice formation in the lab to show what happens 'moment by moment,' shedding new light on ice nucleation events.

AirPods have glued-in tiny lithium batteries that make recycling difficult, said Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, the company which took apart the AirPods and has previously analyzed other Apple products.

The warning was given by Dr Kate Devlin, speaking at this week's 'Love and Sex with Robots' conference which is being held at Goldsmiths, University of London.

A new video released today reveals Zuckerberg managed to persuade Morgan Freeman to voice the AI - while Arnold Schwarzenegger failed for being too scary.

Speculation that California-headquartered Apple's desktop line had been placed on the back-burner has now been quashed by CEO Tim Cook, in a recent post on an employee message board.

The display will be created using reflections, giving the illusion of a free-floating panel. HoloActive Touch will be debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from the 5th to 8th of January.

The gift wrap depicts classic Christmas nativity scenes each features the baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men, an angel, a bull, a pig, a sheep and a lamb. But can you spot the solo donkey?

New research, led by the University of Kent, suggests that contradictions in our judgement of moral character arise because two separate evil acts trigger slightly different reactions.

Tricky festive puzzle leaves the internet stumped

The puzzle, by London-based Alex Bellos, asks you to guide four people from their homes to their car through the snow, without letting their paths cross. While it may require some trial and error to solve, once you see the answer you won't believe that you didn't get it straight away.

Two studies from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco showed how the brain adjusts to adapt to noisy situations like parties.

For the second year in a row in December, Arctic temperatures will hit alarming highs. The warmth will engulf the Arctic wastelands thanks to a storm pushing in East of Greenland.

While Apple's AirPod earphones have a retail priceof $159 in the US and £159 in the UK, they are being sold for over three times the amount, fetching up to £500 ($620).

The team from the unis of Manchester, Birmingham, and St Andrews, and the Max Planck Institute, say humans were unlikely to have inherited the trait of kindness from our primate cousins.

Research from the Institute of Labor Economics, a think tank based in Germany suggests children may spend too much time comparing their lives to others.

The 26-meter-long rocket, launched at about 8 p.m. (1100 GMT) from the Uchinoura Space Centre in southern Japan, and released a satellite for studying radiation belts around the earth.

Brian Wiedenmeier, executive chairman of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, says that the self-driving Uber he was in 'took an unsafe right-hook-style turn through a bike lane.'

New 'Goldilocks Gauge' at Sainsbury's tests the acidity and sugar levels of mandarins before they're put on shelves. The supermarket is trying to reduce the number of people who bin theirs.

A glimpse of Christmas future... Watch bizarre robot choir sing Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas'

ASUS launched its new robot (right) in a way that is sure to spread some holiday cheer - a choir of Zenbos. Ten bots took the stage (left) in Taiwan singing and dancing to Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'. Following the performance, ASUS announced the friendly bot will be available for pre-order starting January 1st – consumers can request a unit for between $620 and $780.

The European Commission, which is based in Luxembourg, claim that Facebook 'intentionally or negligently' submitted misleading information which went against EU merger rules.

Sources told Bloomberg that Airbnb is developing a flight-booking tool to take on Priceline and Expedia. Called 'Flights', the project is said to launch within the next 18 months - before the firm's IPO.

It is just the second time in living memory that snow has fallen, with the last occasion being in February 1979.

If you've played fantasy sports using Yahoo Sports, blogged on Tumblr or shared pictures on Flickr you may be a victim of the hack that breached one billion Yahoo accounts in 2014.

Researchers at the University of Southampton based their study on satellite imagery of 13,300 lakes taken over a 14-year period between 2000 and 2013.

The verdict, which could infuriate Star Wars fans, came after an organisation called the 'Temple of the Jedi Order' tried to join the official register.

FILE - This July 24, 1997 file photo shows a plastic casting of the skull from the bones known as Kennewick Man, in Richland, Wash. One of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America will be given back to American Indian tribes in Washington state for reburial. President Barack Obama signed a bill Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, with a provision requiring the ancient bones known as Kennewick Man be returned to tribes within 90 days. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson,File)

One of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America will be given back to American Indian tribes in Washington state for reburial.

The Italian creator of the renowned Stradivarius violins took his secret of preparing his instruments to the grave. But new research suggests that anti-woodworm treatment is the key.

Maps reveal roads haves split the Earth into 600,000 fragments

Roadways have divided Earth's surface into more than 600,000 fragments, a new study reveals. An international team of conservation scientists mapped roadless areas around the world, and found that, while they make up roughly 80 percent of the terrestrial surface, more than half of these roadless patches are smaller than 1 square kilometer (0.4 square mile). Roads have clear benefits for human purposes, but the resulting fragmentation also has severe impacts on natural ecosystems - and this could, in turn, reduce their ability to provide us with vital resources.

The AI is able to do everything from recognise friend's faces at the door to work out who is asking it questions - and Zuckerberg said he's even connected up a 1950s toaster and a t-shirt cannon to it.

Researchers monitoring seismic activity in the pariah state of North Korea picked up tremors in 2010, and the explosion was widely believed to have been an underground nuclear test.

The news will likely push cash-strapped Christmas shoppers to scour their homes for the rare coin - in a similar rush to find the valuable new £5 notes.

Dr Scott Kaufman, a professor at the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania says: 'A lot of nice guys who complain about being in the friend zone are not really that nice.'

Researchers from Northern Illinois University have found that dogs that are fearful of loud noises, and unfamiliar animals and humans may experience premature graying on their muzzle.

In a new study, researchers found that high-energy protons from the sun can alter signalling within the brain, specifically messing with the endocannabinoid receptors.

A report warns companies that make fitness trackers could be feeding users' personal information to private healthcare and insurance companies, for purposes ranging from the benign to the malignant.

At the Love and Sex with Robots conference in London, researchers revealed nearly half of men would buy a sex-bot. But, experts warn these robots could push humans beyond 'physical limits.'

Russian deep sea fisherman becomes online hit after revealing bizarre catches

It can be easy to forget that an alien world lives right beneath us - the mysterious ecosystem of the deep ocean, where the creatures of your nightmares lurk far below the surface. But, the Twitter feed of one Russian fisherman could make you think twice before ever dipping your toes at the beach again. Murmansk-based Roman Fedortsov has revealed a trove of terrifying catches, from eight-legged arthropods to fish with dagger-like teeth.

Experts at a US college assessed 300 people for a study on 'relationship power' and found that shoppers are using brand choice as a form of behaviour to deal with conflict with their partners.

Leicestershire Police are currently trialling the system, known as HALO. It combines a high resolution camera system with machine learning software.

Facebook said the feature has been their 'most requested ever'. The new feature will begin rolling out globally to Android and iOS mobile device users from today.

Elon Musk, California-based founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, may have dreamt up his latest world-changing technology while stuck in heavy traffic - with his new idea of boring holes.

Scientists have used a laser to tickle atoms of antimatter and make them shine, a key step toward answering one of the great riddles of the universe.

'Dating Lessons VR' is the latest simulator from Cerevrum, a firm based in New York. The developers say the app will help men 'discover the cheat codes and hacks that will mesmerise her.'

While the RSPB advises people to feed birds all year round to help with food shortages, scientists at the University of Reading, who conducted the research, say caution is needed in the spring.

Dr Gary Heiting, senior editor of San Diego-based eye care website All About Vision, explains how the amount of the pigment melanin in the iris defines what colour our eyes appear to be.

From spidery starfish to coconut-shaped sponges: Robot provides a rare glimpse under Antarctic sea ice

Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) studied the underwater habitat near Australia's Casey research station. The robot (pictured inset being lowered into the water through ice) captured a unique glimpse beneath the Antarctic sea ice, revealing a colourful world filled with coconut-shaped sponges, dandelion-like worms, pink algae and spidery starfish.

The Cupertino-based tech firm is rumoured to be launching three models - a flagship design with a curved OLED screen and two that more closely resemble the current iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.

Brenda Todd, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at City, University of London , suggests gender differences and preferences are there before extensive socialisation (stock image).

Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire took two black Labradors and showed them a selection of 12 video clips and a clip of two people hugging on Coronation Street was the most popular.

Viren Swami, Professor of Social Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, explains that the best response to a present is a simple 'thank you' which masks your disappointment.

The research from University College London, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Cambridge University found that the effects were strongest in the youngest patients.

The tiles could make the inside of a house change colour depend on your mood. The University of Pavia in Italy hope to put the connected tiles into production by the end of 2020

BlackBerry may have struggled to take on Apple and Google in the smartphone wars - but it hopes to have better luck in the car market.

The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems has designed a feathered drone that flies between obstacles, makes sharp turns and copes with strong winds - making it fit for city environments.

Which way do YOU think the dancer is spinning? Researchers explain the latest hit optical illusion - and how it could show you're a genius

The silhouette of a spinning dancer is playing tricks on people's visual perception and was once used to test individual's intelligence and which side of their brain was more dominate. However, experts reveal that most will see the dancer rotate clockwise because we tend to have a viewpoint from above and an attentional bias towards the right side of the body.

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 'Furbo' device, created by US firm Tomofun, connects with an app on pet-lovers' mobile phones, allowing them to watch their dogs via a high-definition camera with night vision.

The New Hope Fertility Center Mexico, based in Mexico City, has said it is working with a number of other couples looking to avoid passing on genetic health conditions to their children.

A fake email purporting to be from the Seattle-based retail giant has been sent to thousands of users around the world. The email claims that there has been a problem with a recent order.

The app will be renamed 'Vine Camera' and will let users post the looping videos they make to Twitter or save them to a phone's camera roll.

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.

A new spider species found in Karnataka, India looks just like the sorting hat in the Harry Potter film franchise. It's been named Eriovixia gryffindori, after Godric Gryfifndor, the original owner of the hat.

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.

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.

Scientists of the American Chemical Society have released a video showing how you can taste garlic with your feet. Garlic contains a compound, allicin, that can penetrate human skin.

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.

Dr Mustafa Sarkar, a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, speculates that AndyMurray's early career hardships could have driven his success.

It is just the second time in living memory that snow has fallen, with the last occasion being in February 1979.

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.

The £145,000 vessel is available in a range of different options depending on the owner, whether they plan to sleep on board, use it as the ultimate party boat or deploy it in military action.

Experts from Princeton University discuss the new 3 Rs - rating, ranking and recommending- and how websites' use them to combine, process and synthesize information before presenting it to us.

The hybrid vehicles are expected to form part of Google's ridesharing service, and are already being tested in California.

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.

A mesmerising new video reveals how brain signals and blood flow interact. Researchers from the University of Columbia, New York, hope their images will help in the treatment of brain disease

A software engine has constructed the smallest engine in the world - and it's made entirely out of paper. This contraption is about the size of a thumbnail and runs on air from an attached balloon.

The site of a ruined Roman fort at Slack in Outlane, which is on the road linking Chester and York, would have been the ideal location for King Arthur's court, according to the professor Peter Field.

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.

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.

Airbus has a radical design for swappable plane interiors. Called Transpose, modules can be customized to fit the need of each flight - from gyms to coffee shops and more first class seating.

The revelations come courtesy of Dr James Canton of the Institute for Global Futures in San Francisco, who produced an eye-opening report on the hotels of the future.

The Martian south pole is dotted with strange networks of branching troughs known as 'spiders,' each carved through years of erosion as seasonal carbon dioxide thaws.

The newly discovered species was a toothy ancestor of modern seabirds. The fossils, dug up by researchers from the University of Rochester are around the oldest bird remains ever found.

A project using a 6 foot (1.8 metre) telescope at the summit of the Haleakala volcano in Maui, Hawaii, captured large images of the sky every 30 seconds for four years.

BEAUFORT, SC - MARCH 08: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) The F-35B Lightning II fifth generation multi role combat aircraft showing the vertical lift fan, at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort on March 8, 2016 in Beaufort, South Carolina. UK personnel from the Royal Navy and RAF are embedded with the US Marine Corps on the F-35 operational training programme, based in Beaufort, South Carolina. This includes pilots and engineers, with numbers of UK personnel starting to grow in the build to the reforming of 617 Squadron (the Dambusters) in summer 2018. The Dambusters will reform at Beaufort before returning to the UK, to be based at RAF Marham. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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.

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.

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

Saturn's moon Mimas appears to be crashing through its rings - but it's just an optical illusion. NASA's Cassini spacecraft Mimas is actually 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) away from the rings.

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.

The 'Kissenger' mouthpiece, developed with the help of engineers from City University London, connects to your phone and will match a partner's lip movements in real-time.

Based on images taken by ESA's Mars Express, it shows a flight over Mawrth Vallis, a 600 km-long, 2 km-deep outflow channel at the boundary of the southern highlands and the northern lowlands of Mars.

South Korea's National Fusion Research Institute, located in the city of Daejeonl, is developing a tokamak-style reactor (illustrated) which aims to harness the energy released by fusing atoms.

In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2016 photo, Andrzej Stewart, the chief engineering officer on a year-long Mars simulation mission that ended in August, puts on a new space suit at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, R.I. RISD created the new space suit for scientists to wear on the next Mars simulation mission in 2017 in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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.

NASA has finally joined the GIF craze, revealing a collection of more than 450 animations of experiments, simulations, and life in space. The space agency is now sharing images on GIPHY.

Seoul-based robotics company 'Korea Future Technology' has completed the first tests of its giant human-like robot, called METHOD-1.

The photos were shared by French blog macgeneration, and show numerous interior views of the nearly-completed project, including a space that's set to be the company's cafeteria.

The jet stream was discovered by researchers from the University of Leeds, using the ESA's Swarm satellites, who believe that further surprises are likely.

The new theory, which suggests our understanding of gravity is wrong, is now backed by a study of more than 30,000 galaxies from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Online used car retailer Carvana opened its newest 'vending machine' last week in Houston, where the gleaming, glass-encased structure sits right off a busy freeway.

When it sank in April 1684, the Schiedam was part of a fleet carrying ordnance, tools, horses and people back from Tangier, the port in present-day Morocco. It now rests of the coast of Cornwall, England.

       

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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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