Ingrid Watt subjects herself to 30 stings every week to try to beat Lyme disease, leaving them in for 20 minutes each for good measure.
Created by Gabriel Fiset using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, it shows dozens of gigantic oval storms dotting the cloudscape. The image was taken on Dec. 11, 2016 at 9:44 a.m. PST (12:44 p.m. EST), from an altitude of about 32,400 miles (52,200 kilometers) above the planet’s beautiful cloud tops.
Condenamed Knight, the speaker includes a 7inch touchscreen display. Amazon hopes it will radically increase the usefulness of its smart assistant Alexa.
It appears Snapchat could be working to advance the use of its Spectacles. A new patent highlights a system that would place augmented reality images into the user's real world using location technology.
Launched in August last year, the drilling was completed on January 25, reaching a record-breaking depth of 4,659 metres (nearly 3 miles).
The University of Nevada has developed an autonomous robot bridge inspector that uses radar and unique sensors to 'see' inside bridges to determine their level of corrosion.
The research from the Netherlands was based on MRI scans of almost 900 men and women and found male brains are around 14 per cent larger.
App Annie has found the amount of time spent using apps increased by 25 percent in Q1 2017. On average, users launched over 30 apps a month and each person accessed at least 10 apps per day.
Readers are more empathetic while people who prefer watching television are less friendly and less understanding of others’ views, researchers at Kingston University in London found.
Dr Scott Napper, professor of biochemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, said: ‘Nature pushes us to do different things because it is to our advantage.'
Security researchers from Beijing-based Qihoo 360 demonstrated how simple it is for thieves to steal a car with just a pair of homemade radios (inset) that cost a total of $22 make – and it takes just a matter of seconds from when you exit your vehicle. Called the 'relay hack', one person (left) follows behind the driver while holding the DIY radio and their partner (right) stands next to car with a similar transceiver– once the signal has been transferred, the thief can unlock the door, start the engine and drive off.
Burger King pulled a pretty juicy marketing stunt last month that drew plenty of attention - not just to the Whopper, but also to the intrinsic vulnerabilities of a new type of voice-activated gadget.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is officially making a comeback. The firm has received FCC approval to sell refurbished units that could be released in June - but the US and Canada are not part of the launch.
Researchers have carried out the first global survey of radiation exposure caused by the meltdown of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan after a tsunami struck in 2011.
Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to muse ideas for names for the impressive boring machine, which is digging a tunnel under LA to dodge the city's infamous traffic.
A new map paints a picture of a robot takeover in the US. Researchers used data from Oxford and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to show where the most 'automatable' jobs are in the nation.
What could be more bonkers than a roof tent for a Mini? How about a coffee machine in a Fiat, a £20k watch to unlock your Aston and a stupidly expensive Bentley fishing set?
A documentary series called 'Dolphins: Spy in the Pod', which aired on PBS in the US this week, used robots to collect intelligence on aquatic life.
Knowing you share religious or political beliefs with your doctor acts as a placebo effect against the pain of an injection, according to researchers from the University of Miami.
The images will leave anyone born pre-2000 feeling nostalgic - and anyone born after that year a little baffled. Clockwise L-R: Forget flicking through thousands of songs in an instant on Spotify or iTunes, if you wanted to listen to a song back in the day, you'd have to take the time to laboriously flick through a CD holder. Today's children can simply slip their iPhone into their pocket when they want to listen to a few tunes but anyone born before the Millennium had to risk ripping their favourite jeans. For anyone born back in the day, a simple game of MASH sufficed. Winding down the car window was akin to an arm workout, figuring out where the milk went in this bottle was one of life's greatest mysteries and Netflix and chill would require a trip to Blockbuster.
These homes may look unusual, but they're also highly survivable through tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires. Homeowners across the country have opted to live in Monolithic domes - whether it be in a sprawling Texas complex (main), on an Alabama hill (top left) or in a canyon in California (bottom left). Residents laud their safety, energy efficiency.
Aquatic mammals Tito, 16, and Lilo, nine, have been trained to shoot, defuse bombs and raise naval flags at Baikal Seal Aquarium, in the city of Irkutsk.
The dating service, created by London-based company 'Feeld', uses a chat bot in Slack. The bot invites users to type in the name of their crush, and if any match up the two colleagues are notified.
A professor of microbiology at Aix-Marseille University in France has warned that thawing permafrost and industrial digging could release diseases that cause a global pandemic.
Citigroup has listed seven companies as potential takeover targets for Apple Inc, including Netflix, Walt Disney and Tesla Inc, as a way to put its cash hoard of more than $250 billion to work.
Researchers from Kingston University found that people who preferred reading fiction showed more positive social behaviours, and were more empathetic (stock image).
More than half of all adults in the UK struggle to nod off, with 40 per cent saying they regularly get just six hours sleep - considerably less than the recommended seven to nine.
Facebook Messenger is suggesting call girl agency websites to users typing in a random number into the search bar, according to an investigation by a London-based media company.
The algorithm was developed by researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and South Texas College of Law, who trained it using the US Supreme Court Database.
There is now incontrovertible evidence that a top-secret launcher site for V1 missiles — one of Hitler’s vengeance weapons — was being constructed on the island. And the reason for that secrecy was that, shockingly, they were to be armed not with conventional explosives, but with internationally outlawed chemical warheads, capable of causing the same degree of destruction, terror and panic seen recently by President Assad’s chemical strike in Syria. They are likely to have contained the very same nerve gas: Sarin. The target of these deadly doodlebugs? The southern coast of England from Weymouth to Plymouth, where in the winter of 1943 and spring of 1944 hundreds of thousands of British and American troops were assembling and preparing for the D-Day invasion.
The document was leaked by the Open Rights Group, and details some extreme proposals by the UK government to force technology firms to spy on users.
Julian Rios Cantu, 18, from Mexico, has won the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) in Frankfurt for his Eva bra which could provide an early warning for women developing breast cancer.
Hackers in Germany have exploited a vulnerability in global telecoms networks to steal funds from bank accounts, and it could affect customers worldwide as well as other high profile websites.
Technology called Chronos developed by data scientists in Wilmington, North Carolina uses facial analytics to estimate life expectancy (stock image).
California-based WhatsApp is trialling a new feature that lets you pin chats to the top of the list, meaning the conversations you come back to regularly are more easily accessible.
The research, led by a 24-year-old Oxford University student, could revolutionize the bionic implant industry and the development of less invasive technologies to help treat degenerative eye conditions.
Researchers at Keele University conducted experiments to test the link between swearing and strength. Results showed that participants produced more power if they had sworn (stock image)
The new set of shows from YouTube, based in San Bruno, California, includes a roster of homegrown YouTube stars and A-list celebrities. Some will be free, supported by advertising on videos.
China's first domestically built passenger plane (bottom images) completed its maiden flight today. The narrow-body, twin-engine C919 successfully took off from Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 2pm local time (7am BST). The single-aisle aircraft has been billed as China's answer to Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 as the nation aims to raise its profile in the global aviation market. It's is built by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (COMAC), a Chinese state-owned aviation manufacturer based in Shanghai. A view from inside the cockpit of the COMAC C919 can be seen in the top image.
As well as chocolate, all forms of onion will make your pet ill including dried/dehydrated, raw and cooked onions, says London-based Emma Hammett, who set-up First Aid for Pets.
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc's use of a software tool that helped its drivers evade local transportation regulators.
The UK retailer said that 26,000 customers of Debenhams Flowers, which is operated by third party supplier Ecomnova, have had their data 'accessed or stolen' as a result of the breach.
Researchers from Harvard University, Princeton University and the Environmental Defense Fund have proposed a more precise way to measure greenhouse gas emissions.
NASA is calling for details on launch and landing services, to help them assess the availability of commercial systems that could carry payload 'from Earth to the lunar surface’ as early as 2018.
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak this weekend, with the best viewing times occurring overnight on Friday, and early Saturday. People in the southern hemisphere will have the best view.
A 'mad scientist' designed a giant mouse trap consisting of plywood and coils from a car suspension system in order to catch a pesky raccoon - and it travels 42 mph (67 km/h) on impact. The YouTuber, who goes by the name of ‘TheBackyardScientist’, spent three weeks and $360 building the massive contraption. Although it was designed to take out a raccoon, he decided to show off the trap's abilities on other objects such as a watermelon, coconuts and 10 cans of soda.
The footage was posted on YouTube by Ohio-based Secureteam10, a well-known conspiracy channel that regularly posts supposed UFO sightings
Catherine Hettinger, from Florida, came up with the concept 20 years ago as a way of occupying her daughter, but they have recently become a craze and tens of millions of units have now been sold.
Canadian experts found that 57% of Americans have worked with a 'Dark Knight' employee, who turned their co-workers in for any wrongful acts - and a majority of them were women.
Anglo American's diamond unit De Beers is piloting a project to capture carbon in the rock from which diamonds are extracted to offset harmful emissions, the company said.
A 19-year-old Baylor University student posted a video on Twitter showing that you can swipe left or right on Apple's calculator app to erase the last number typed, instead of erasing the whole line.
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt told an audience at MIT 'I've taken the position of 'job elimination denier,' claiming there's no question that there's job dislocation.'
Dr Matthew J Moynihan, a self-proclaimed 'Nuclear Fusion Evangelist' from Houston has released technical specifications on Lockheed's fusion reactor project.
In its ongoing battle with Apple, Qualcomm could soon seek a ban on iPhones being imported to the US from Asia just months before the highly anticipated iPhone 8 is set to be released.
The autonomous driving system, dubbed IVO has been created by scientists at the University of the Negev in Israel. The current prototype (main image) cost $1,600 (£1,240) to produce. The robot chauffeur relies on a handful of cameras, motion sensors and mechanical devices to control the speed and direction of a vehicle. In the future, designers say this strange-looking droid (inset) could sit in the driver's seat of any car and take control.
SolarStratos took to the skies over Payerne, Switzerland at 08:00 local time (07:00 BST/02:00 EST), where conditions were described as 'ideal.' Raphael Domjan, who founded the firm, supervised the test flight by pilot Damian Hischier, who flew SolarStratos for seven minutes at an altitude of 300 metres, before landing. Thankfully, the maiden flight went off without a hitch. The group now plans to study the results of the test flight before scheduling a longer flight at higher altitude.
Scientists measured sound levels at 492 places and found in two-thirds of the Lower 48's parks, the noise can at times be twice the natural background level.
Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and colleagues found that there were two periods lasting less than a million years each during which the Eastern Amazon sank.
Researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris found that Bantu Speaking People first moved southward through the rainforest before migrating further south and east.
Wild dolphins are exposed to more pollutants than captive ones, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have found. It could explain why wild dolphins they face higher rates of illness and disease.
Unihertz, a group of Shanghai-based smartphone experts, are launching a miniature handset created to function alongside larger smartphones rather than replacing them altogether.
NASA has completed tests on the Launch Abort System’s altitude control motor, further readying the craft for a crewed mission to Mars. It is one of three motors that will steer crew to safety in an emergency.
A global update to the way Facebook's desktop site works is being rolled out to users, which will allow them express a range of emotional reactions to comments made under status posts.
Researchers from the University of South Wales recruited 340 participants via Twitter and Facebook, and had them complete questionnaires that outlined how valued social media made them feel.
While experts have long suspected these gardens existed, the discovery on the Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor, Egypt marks the first time one has ever been found (pictured left). Beside a tamarisk shrub in one corner of the garden, the team also found a bowl of dates and other fruits (pictured right) thought to have been placed there as an offering. Such gardens would have contained plants symbolic of the religious and cultural themes at the time, including the idea of a ‘return to life,’ researchers say, and they're now working to see what was planted there (simulation shown, bottom center).
In a Senate hearing in Washigton the SpaceX vice president of government affairs, Patricia Cooper, revealed that the company wanted to launch their satellite internet in 2019 (stock image).
Elon Musk said Tesla's global success in the coming years would rely heavily on programming robots, according to his statement on the company's earnings on Wednesday).
The European XFEL is located at the DESY research center near Hamburg. It is designed to capture images of structures and processes at the atomic level.
a government survey found homes and apartments with only cellphone service exceeded 50 percent for the first time, reaching 50.8 percent for the last six months of 2016.
Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark used personality tests to establish whether 'psychopathic' personality traits can affect the type of subjects chosen for study by students.
Paul Edmonds, head of technology at the British National Cyber Crime Unit, said it was a ‘fallacy’ spread by the security industry that passwords should be changed frequently.
Researchers from the University of Toronto looked at the effects of handheld devices in the early years on communication (stock image).
This is the shocking scene of how a pigeon in Vancouver used hypodermic syringes left behind by drug addicts to build a nest so she could lay her three eggs.
A new movie sequence created by the Nasa Cassini imaging team at Hampton University in Virginia shows Saturn up close during the first of the spacecraft's Grand Finale. It begins with a view of the swirling vortex at the planet's north pole, then heads past the outer boundary of the hexagon-shaped jet stream and beyond. Toward the end of the movie, the camera frame rotates as the spacecraft reorients to point its large, saucer-shaped antenna in the direction of the spacecraft's motion. The antenna was used as a protective shield during the crossing of Saturn's ring plane.
Researchers at the University of Illinois found that male anemonefish have a hormone similar to oxytocin, the hormone that facilitates bonding between human mothers and their babies after childbirth.
Bricks have been 3D printed out of simulated moondust in a solar furnace at 1,000°C (1,830°F) by researchers from the European Space Agency in Colonge.
A malicious email is asking users to click on a Google Docs link, which is then giving hackers access to the contents of their Google accounts, including email, contacts and online documents.
Google has introduced a security feature for Gmail on Android that will show a warning when users click on a suspicious link. The feature is being rolled out to Android users worldwide this week.
The Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp was revealed as the best pudding to eat in space, according to a culinary competition held in the Nasa Space Centre in Houston.
Researchers based at Texas Tech University found that skunks learned to protect themselves from glaciers by living in different climate refuges, which drove the evolution of three distinct genetic groups.
Researchers have discovered a smaller African contemporary of the T Rex in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco which was of one of the last dinosaurs found on Earth.
Researchers at the DoE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are searching for hybrid mesons to explain a mysterious phenomenon known as ‘quark confinement.’
According to nuclear non-proliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis, tests of such devices in the past were largely anticlimactic, and failed to produce widespread electrical disruption.
Researchers from the University of Bristol reviewed the fossils, and discovered that none of the characteristics used to define the fossils as animals are unique to animals alone.
The new landowners in Cambridge, New York state, had set up the camera in the woods as they hoping to go hunting but wanted to check if the area was a popular route for locals first. But they were shocked to discover a grainy picture of what appeared to be a little girl playing in the woods Yet, when they asked around to see if anyone recognized the youngster, or knew that their daughter played around the area, they got a resounding no. 'I've lived here all my life, and I've never heard of a ghost running around the woods,' said Chief George Bell.
According to a new historical review from the CDC, anthrax outbreaks spiked in the early 1900s as the war made badger hair difficult to come by, causing a rise in cheap imitation products.
Elon Musk's electric car firm Tesla has revealed first-quarter revenue that more than doubled and said its upcoming Model 3 was on schedule for July.
Researchers at University of Freiburg, designed a new water-repellent material that when scratched and submerged in water, will shed off the top layer to reveal an unscathed surface beneath.
Facebook on Wednesday reported its quarterly profit jumped just over $3 billion as its ranks of monthly users closed in on two billion.The leading social...
A technology retailer based in Poole, Dorset, has listed the Nokia 3310 handset for pre-orders for delivery in mid-June and has also upped price expectations from £41 to £59.99.
While it was previously thought that the bony crest on apes' skulls developed to create extra space for chewing muscles, a study from Australia National University found it may be for social signalling.
Star Wars film-buff Kevin Lewis captured a 'double sunset' at South Stack light house in Anglesey in Wales - which looks just like the iconic shot from the first movie in the series 'A New Hope'.
Hulu has released its long-awaited Live TV service that offers over 50 channels for $40 a month. Users have access to DVR recordings and Hulu's massive content library.
The test shuttles were found inside a derelict Soviet warehouse near the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan, 125 miles east of the Aral Sea. They were both developed as part of the USSR's Buran programme which was shut down in 1993 - but neither of the craft were sent to space. In the same building, photographers pictured a vast Energia rocket, designed to propel the Buran, an unmanned space plane, into orbit.
A JP Morgan analyst has suggested that iOS users could expect the tech giant to preview the iPhone 8 at the World Developers Conference in June - a move that would break a five year tradition.
Proterra, an electric buses maker, has set out to develop and test self-driving buses in the US. It will fit buses with sensors that capture street data to design algorithms for the autonomous vehicles.
Costa Samaras, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has criticised plans that would see electric 'skates' transporting cars at high speed in narrow tunnel under cities.
The trains are so fast that they would be able to complete the journey from London to Paris in just 34 minutes. A tester track is expected to be completed by 2019.
Researchers based at Clemson University and the Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center have discovered that American alligators can breed well into their 60's and 70's, far longer than previously thought.
The study, led by Western Illinois University, suggests the findings could be as a result of alcohol reducing inhibitions, encouraging people to do or say things that would normally embarrass them,
The Digital Economy Bill, proposed by the UK government, warns people making and streaming films using torrents will be committing a criminal offence, and could face up to 10 years.
The Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme studied Lulu, who washed up on the Isle of Tiree in the Hebrides, and found she had one of the highest levels of PCB pollution ever recorded in the species.
Mr Andrew Davies, a coracleman from Carmarthen, dredged up the sword (pictured left and bottom right) while casting his net in the River Towy (pictured top right). Experts believe that the sword is 'kris' of Asian origin, south east Asia, Malaysia. While most strongly associated with the culture of Indonesia the kris is also indigenous to Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Singapore and the Philippines where it is known as kalis with variants existing as a sword rather than a dagger.
Humpback whales are intervening to try and stop the killer whale pod that has been on a murderous rampage in Monterey Bay, California. Over the last 12 days, the pod has killed seven gray whales.
Researchers from the University of Lancaster and Stockholm University looked at the ways in which people around the world perceive time.
Footage has been unearthed of billionaire Mark Zuckerberg as a 20-year-old discussing Facebook's origins as a way for Harvard students to socialise and interact online.
A worker at the firm, which has offices across the world, claimed that code written by women is 35 per cent more likely to be rejected. Facebook has since dismissed the claims.
As part of BBC's Tomorrow's World series, Professor Hawking will explore how humans might exist in outer space in order to avoid being wiped out by a disaster on Earth.
A revolutionary bionic hand that 'sees' objects and instantly decides what kind of grip to adopt has been developed by scientists from Newcastle University.
Facebook says it will hire another 3,000 people to review videos of crime and suicides following murders shown live, on top of the 4,500 people Facebook already has for such reviews.
The proportion of adults who drink alcohol on a weekly basis is at its lowest since figures began in 2005, official data from around 7,700 British adults suggests.
It is a striking feature of the southern sky even to the unaided eye. However, the European Space Agency has revealed a stunning closeup of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy that puts even the most sophisticated of telescopes to shame. Using the infrared capabilities of the VISTA, the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope, astronomers pieced together the biggest infrared image ever taken of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy, the more petite twin of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). They are two of our closest galaxy neighbours in space — the SMC lies about 200 000 light-years away, just a twelfth of the distance to the more famous Andromeda Galaxy.
Females generate as much excitement in men when fully clothed as they do naked - and partial nudity may have the least effect of all according to research from the University of Kent.
Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands plan to use 4,000 artificial snow machines to stop Switzerland's Morteratsch glacier from retreating by 130ft (40m) a year.
The Vitali bra created by Vancouver-based designer Cindy Gu has a fitness tracker that keeps tabs on your breathing, heart rate and posture in order to help keep you zen.
A Minuteman 3 missile was fired from a site in California at 12.02am local time and hit a target located 4,200 miles away in the Pacific Ocean with a single decoy warhead, military chiefs said.
A team from the University of Bolton analysed 226 handwritten letters entered into a 1938 essay contest on 'What does happiness mean for you and yours?' to understand what makes us happy.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) have designed a device which measures the walking speed of multiple people using wireless signals.
Chargie aims to more than double the number of electric vehicle charging points across the UK by allowing private owners to add their sockets to the site's map to rent out to owners.
Copying in the boss on emails has a negative impact in the workplace, according to new research. Not only do they clog up a supervisor's inbox, but they can also reduce trust.
The ape, called Kotap (top left), was rescued by a team from International Animal Rescue and local officials at a remote village in West Kalimantan, Borneo. Kotap, aged just four, had spent half his life shut up in the ramshackle box (centre), measuring just 10 sq ft, with nothing but a straw and an empty plastic bottle (bottom left) to play with. At first he was so frightened of the outside world that he cowered at the back of his cramped home when rescuers opened the front hatch. But they were eventually able to coax him to the entrance (right and centre) before the young animal was finally lifted to safety.
A gamma-ray glow at the center of the Milky Way is most likely caused by pulsars - the super dense, rapidly spinning cores of collapsed ancient stars that were up to 30 times larger than our sun.
The researchers say the wave formed billions of years ago, after a small galaxy cluster grazed Perseus and caused its vast supply of gas to slosh around an enormous volume of space.
Apple reported a surprise fall in iPhone sales for the second quarter on Tuesday, indicating that customers had held back purchases in anticipation of the 10th-anniversary edition launch of the company's most important product.
The BBC is using a special type of surround sound for an upcoming Doctor Who to make mysterious noises appear all around viewers.
Where's Franklin is the title of two books that show pictures of the pup from Northern California hiding in a variety of different landscapes, much like Waldo did in a series of children's books.
Apple could soon help users watch what they eat. A newly awarded patent describes a system that lets users see the nutritional value of food directly on their iPhone or Apple Watch display.
British scientists have created a smartphone signal-blocker that stops mobile users being distracted while behind the wheel, using technology from the 19th century.
The flavor of whiskey depends on a slew of factors, including the type of grains used, the distillation technique, and above all else, the aging process, according to an ACS Reactions video.
Towering above Rome's historic centre, the ancient mausoleum was once used as a military look-out point and hosted the lavish parties of the Roman dynasty for centuries. The structure, originally 90 metres (295 feet) in diameter and 45 metres (147 feet) high, once featured a bronze sculpture of Augustus on the roof. But since the turn of the 20th century, the 2,000-year-old site has been left to fall into decay. Now the towering monument is finally being restored. Pictured is its decrepit central sepulcher (left, top right) and the mausoleum's ancient walls (bottom right).
The fidget spinner device has even been marketed as an aide for ADHD, autism and anxiety, however no formal academic studies on their effect have been conducted.
Scientists estimate the Icelandic mantle plume, which played a major role in the geologic and oceanographic evolution of the region, has about five fingers extending from its center.
Elon Musk's NeuraLink is developing a 'whole brain interface,' essentially a network of tiny electrodes linked to your brain that the company envisions will allow us to communicate wirelessly with the world.
Samsung's Bixby may not be able to speak English yet, but it is capable of dissing Apple's Siri in a rap song. South Korean users asked Bixby to rap and in one verse, it said 'I am better than Siri'.
DNA samples from medieval chicken bones have revealed modern hens first appeared in Europe in 1,000 AD according to research led by the University of Oxford (stock image).
Facebook has announced that it is rolling out Instant Games on Messenger to all of its 1.2 billion users who use Messenger every month. Users can now go head-to-head with friends in 50 different titles.
Bemused collectors across Britain have found coins with melted centres and other design faults while some have a hole where the silver middle should be. The coins are being sold online.
The National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest is underway and the photos are breathtaking. Submissions are being accepted until June 30th
Nasa has released the eerie sound of 'the big empty' - the void between Saturn and its rings - that has been recorded for the first time as part of the continuing voyages of its Cassini spacecraft (pictured main). Scientists used the craft's sensors to measure the amount of dust in the area on April 26, then converted the data - measuring each dust particle that collided with the sensor - into sound (visual representation inseT). The result, shared with the world by Nasa on its website, is an unsettling series of crackles, whorls and snarls that sounds - quite literally - out of this world.
The fossilised remains of the jianianhualong tengi was discovered by an international team of palaeontologists, led by the University of Hong Kong.
In the last year, three airline crews at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, in Georgia, have received emergency medical care with symptoms of aerotoxic syndrome.
It is a rumor that could send iOS users into a frenzy. An analyst from Deutsche Bank released a research note that stated Apple will not release its 10th anniversary smartphone in 2017.
New York-based IBM has been granted a patent which could allow the creation of a fleet of drones that could pass packages mid-air and extend delivery ranges.
An expert from Elon University explains the dos and don'ts of passwords, and how using at least 15 characters and random numbers and letters will keep hackers at bay.
When we eat sweet food, our livers secrete a hormone called FGF21. But new Danish research reveals some people have variations on this hormone - which makes them crave more sugary treats.
It has been said to rival America’s F-35 fighter jet and now, China could soon add its secretive J-31 jet to its arsenal as the nation’s stealth fighter for aircraft carriers - as it is currently undergoing tests.
Killing of pups is common in mongoose social groups, and experts from the University of Exeter believe that offspring are more likely to survive if they hide who they are related to.
Located 10.5 light-years away in the southern hemisphere of the constellation Eridanus (inset), the star Epsilon Eridani, eps Eri for short (main image), is the closest planetary system around a star similar to the early sun. It is a prime location to research how planets form around stars like our sun, and is also the storied location of the Babylon 5 space station in the science fictional television series of the same name.
A realistic robot with a sassy sense of humour pitted her wits against one of America's top TV personalities but audiences may be divided in their feelings about her appearance.
Researchers at the Weizmann institute found 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women. It could help in understanding why some genders are more prone to certain diseases.
Two baby lion cubs were presented to the public at a zoo in Chile on Thursday, born after a pioneering veterinary procedure that involved a reversed vasectomy of their father.
Steven Mecinski and Britt van Meegen, owners of Wild-Life Tours, were hosting a safari for tourists in Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park, South Africa, when they spotted the males squaring up to each other.
Mobile messaging program WhatsApp went down for hours, affecting thousands of users across the globe, who were left stuck on a 'Connecting...' message. US and UK are among affected countries.
YouTube started offering users across the world a free trial of its newly designed site on Tuesday. But the firm has warned that only a limited number of people will be able to sign up to try it out.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday said he had not seen clear evidence that Uber had conspired with an engineer on its self driving car program to steal trade secrets from Alphabet's Waymo.
A researcher from the University of Michigan explains how using emojis as passwords lets users draw from over 2,500 emojis, for combinations that are more resistant to cracking and observation.
Uber's two new updates go into effect globally today, and aim to make the system fairer. Riders' ratings will be more accessible, and drivers won't be penalized for some factors in Pool trips.
Striking images, taken in Washington, D.C. between 1905 and 1945, capture a trio of divers testing out underwater breathing devicesand a dentist using a dental X-ray machine.
Researchers from the University of New South Wales found images selected by strangers conveyed a much more favourable first impression than images people selected for themselves.
The video, taken by researchers at Brown University, shows the males raising their arms, changing their skin colors, dilating their pupils and grappling with each other, spurting ink in the battle.
A Queensland man says he thought he saw a fallen branch in his backyard on Wednesday morning, but closer inspection showed it to be something far more sinister.
Onlookers were treated to a stunning spectacle as a blustery wind created the unusual meteorological sight known as the Helm Bar above their homes in Carlisle, Cumbria.
An international team of researchers, led by geochemists from Trinity College Dublin, studied rocks in one of the largest preserved impact structures, located in modern-day Sudbury.
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) compiled a report with the Met Office and Reading University which found climate change would have a big impact on UK gardening (stock image).
A man in Usinsk, north-west Russia, filmed as the frenzied creature bared its teeth and began to rip a hole in his door. Some social media users said the 'infected' animal should have been put down.
Twitter shares shot higher Wednesday after its quarterly update showed improving growth in user numbers, offsetting concerns over a decline in revenue and...
The latest optical illusion puzzling the web has been shared by the website eChalk, and challenges users to choose the real masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison studied the brain activity of people who were dreaming and found a region called the posterior cortical 'hotzone' is key to dreams (stock image).
Neil Cook, 47, was on a ghost hunt at North East Land, Sea and Air Museum in Sunderland when he caught the face and hat of an apparition on camera.
The 25ft monster (pictured) was seen floating upside down near the rocks at Chapel Point in Mevagissey. Experts believe it to be a basking shark, the largest fish found in British waters.
Facebook says it has fixed a glitch which locked people out of their accounts for 72 hours, but users worldwide are still coming forward to report that they are unable to access their accounts.
The huge £360million vessel, named Sailing Yacht A, is said to be 'the world's greatest yacht' by project leaders close to owner Andrey Melnichenko, a Russian billionaire.
A study led by researchers at University College London suggests that areas of the brain are organised by functions rather than individual body parts.
Adam Newport photographed a four-inch camouflaged wolf spider lurking in the grass outside his Queensland home. He said everyone who has seen the photo hasn't spotted the spider.
Professional diver Vitaly Bazarov captured the beautiful video of the floating mollusc, called a Spanish dancer fish, off the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea.
A new study, from Stanford University School of Medicine in California, has discovered that umbilical cord blood could be the key to reversing the effects of age-associated mental declines.
The terrifying video was created by the New Zealand Fire Service, in the hopes of raising awareness of the dangers of house fires.
Plans to excavate the tennis courts in the Abbey gardens at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, have been backed by heritage officials.
Tourist Hayley Johnson, from Manchester, noticed a strange and dark shape at dusk in Urquhart Bay, near Inverness, Scotland, and it has been recorded as the first Nessie sighting in eight months.
The conceptual designs for the building, dubbed 'Pod Vending Machine,' were created by Mr Haseef Rafiei, an architecture student at the University of Manchester.
SpaceX on Monday blasted off a secretive US government payload, known only as NROL-76, marking the first military launch for the California-based aerospace company.
The Ooho! balloon was created by a trio of London-based engineers. The spheres are created using gelification, a technique used in cooking, and the squishy skin is made from algae.
Nasa has released a stunning video showing cascades of charged particles spilling from a hole in the sun's atmosphere, which could cause a geomagnetic storm on Earth today.
Scărișoara Ice Cave is among the most important scientific sites in Europe.
Madeleine McCann vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3, 2007, when she was just three years old.
In the new study, an international team of researchers found that, once the prey is captured, any contact with the Venus flytrap's sensory ‘hairs’ will trigger an electrical signal.
Mysterious footage has emerged from a national park in the Netherlands, where tourists say they may have found a Bigfoot-like creature lurking in the forest, which was seen peering out at them.
The Surface Laptop was unveiled at the New York event by Panos Panay, VP of Microsoft Surface. It comes in four colours - platinum, burgundy, cobalt blue and graphite gold.
The 116-feet long wooden ship was discovered on the banks of the River Usk in Newport, Gwent, in 2002 when it was unearthed by archaeologists during the building of an arts centre.
Abyss Creations, based in California, has unveiled 'Harmony AI', an app that gives its silicone Realdolls a 'brain' capable of forming relationships with humans.
NASA today reveal this stunning image showing the north pole of Enceladus, just weeks after scientists said it contained some of the strongest evidence yet that alien life may exist.
Perry Watkins imported the 1958 Volkswagen truck from Oklahoma and has spent five years working on the crazy creation, which now features a fighter jet engine.
Saint-Petersburg-based face-scanning app FaceApp reveals what celebrities might look like if they were a different age or gender.
Villagers in the abandoned medieval village of Wharram Percy, north Yorkshire hacked up the corpses of dead people to prevent them returning as zombies, shocking new research has found.
YouTube channel SecureTeam10 explores the origins of a mysterious rock found in Roswell, New Mexico, that conspiracy theorists say is evidence of aliens visiting the planet.
Human funerary practices mean nutrients are being concentrated unnaturally in cemeteries instead of being dispersed evenly throughout nature, according to new research in Prague.
Teardowns of the Samsung Galaxy S8 have revealed a bizarre icon on the battery – a ‘no dogs allowed’ sticker. The label warns users not to let their pets use the battery as a chew toy.
Fallout from a Soviet nuclear weapons test at Semipalatinsk in August 1956 resulted in more than 600 people ending up in hospital with radiation sickness, four times the amount from Chernobyl.
A gold locket engraved with 'VC' tells a story of love and loss aboard the Titanic. It belonged to Virginia Estelle McDowell Clark who survived, but was forced to leave her husband behind.
Social media has gone crazy for the latest pet fad: trapping cats in squares made of tape stuck to the floor. The reason for the kitty quirk is unknown, but as these pictures show, it's certainly real.
It's easy to spot the sheep in this pastoral scene - but they aren't the only animals on the farm. The latest optical illusion from Playbuzz challenges players to find four more hidden creatures.
The Smacircle, created by designers from Shenzhen in China, weighs the same as two newborn can reach speeds of 12.5mph (20km/h).
The 'spy' hooks can be bought online by anyone globally for as little as ($25). They contain miniature cameras which film tiny a small hole at the top of the plastic.
In a recent visit to the village of San Juan de Collata, University of St Andrews anthropologist Dr Sabine Hyland identified what are now the only known Andean phonetic khipus.
The company has got city approval for the project, which begins construction next month and will take about two years to complete. It boasts petal-like canopy structure on the roof.
Spot is one of many lifelike robots being developed by Boston Dynamics, a branch of Google. The canine-like machine has started bringing parcels in Boston.
The triangular complex, painted in the red, white and blue of the Russia's tricolor flag, has been built in remote Alexandra Land in the Franz Josef Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
It's been two years in the making, but Will Strathmann has finished a stunning timelapse of a Pennsylvania farm that was taken by a drone from spring of 2015 to January 2017.
E-Volo has unveiled ts revamped Volocopter VC200, an electric flying taxi. Called the Volocopter 2X, the craft is set to begin testing in commercial airways in 2018 and will be used in pilot projects.
China's GREATMETAL is the third competitor in the first giant robot battle of its kind – and the team has unveiled its massive ‘Monkey King’ to take on America's MegaBots and Japan's Kuratas.
Festo has unveiled an unnerving octopus-inspired device equipped with a flexible robotic tentacle. The gripper is made up of soft silicone lined with two rows of suction cups.
Southern Africa is known for its collection of ancient rock art, but experts had yet to directly date them - until now. The artwork was found to be 5,000 years old - much older than previously believed.
Russia is planning to commission new Shtorm class carriers, also known as Project 23E000E, for 2030, with state media saying the new craft will be the 'biggest in the world'.
Researchers from Australian National University used the Molonglo radio telescope, which is near Canberra, to find the likely locations of fast radio emissions.
Ray Kurzweil a futurist who works on Google's machine learning project predicted that singularity would happen in the next twelve years at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas .
Researchers from the University of St Andrews filmed a chimpanzee in Zambia called Noel cleaning the teeth of her dead son. The footage may shed light on how humans evolved mortuary practices.
A California-based firm's new robot dispenses measured quantities of ingredients for ready-to-eat salads Named Sally, it also uses proprietary technology to provide precises caloric counts.
A scientist based in Montreal has designed a hybrid bike-bus vehicle called The Siroco, which could carry up to twelve passengers at once.
The machine, created by an amateur Norwegian engineer in his garage in Bergen, Norway, runs using 18 different motors that give the robot exceptional flexibility.
Researchers from the University of California in Berkeley trained an AI to turn masterpieces into realistic-looking photos by teaching it to analyse the 'special characteristics' of images.
California is now in the midst of a 'superbloom' after drought-relieving rains. Satellite images show the dramatic changes over the past few months as the vegetation comes back to life.
The rocket engine was cut in half and placed in a transparent case so it could be filmed in slow motion at 1,500 and 4,000 frames per second using a high-speed camera, showing the rocket blazing.
Archaeologists have confirmed that the anchor, found in the Caribbean, is of Spanish origin and can be traced back to the Columbus era, from 1492 to the early 1500s.
Uber has announced that its zero-emissions take off and land vertically flying taxis will hit be deployed in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Dubai by 2020 - a year ahead of schedule.
Along with the successful completion of flight tests, Lilium has also revealed it is working on a larger, five-seater version that the firm says could soon be used for ride-sharing services.
The Shetland and Orkney islands have the highest proportion of Viking descendants in the UK. People with names ending in 'son', such as actress Emma Watson (pictured), could be related to Vikings.
Nearly half of an airline's revenue derives from those flying first-and business-class – and firms are searching for futuristic designs to ensure the one percent travels in style and comfort.
Combining measurements from Cassini, two Voyager spacecraft, and the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, researchers found that our solar system may be enveloped by a spherical sheath.
Researchers based at the University of Utah and other universities discovered the giant shipworm after it was tapped out of a huge shell. The worm lives in shallow mud bays in the Phillipines.
Incredible pictures shared by a Russian marine scientist reveal the weird and wonderful creatures found in the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean.
It may be the end for home builders. MIT has unveiled an autonomous machine that uses a robotic arm that sprays insulation foam down and fills it in with concrete - it built a 12ft high dome in 14 hrs.
A UFO hunting website called SecureTeam 10, based in Cleveland, Ohio, claims to have spotted a passageway hidden on the moon which could be the stairway to extraterrestrial life.
There are four E-4B 'Nightwatch' planes in the US government's emergency air fleet. They follow the president around the world and can communicate with anyone anywhere in the world.
The footage was released by General Atomics, a defence contractor headquartered in San Diego, California. The projectiles are filmed travelling through the air in slow motion.
A hypnotic new video reveals the unearthly beauty of life up-close. Using different colored ink in water, the Macro Room has created a short film that could rival the effects of CGI.
According to researchers from Caltech and École normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris, the phenomenon can happen along thrust faults both on land and underwater, causing the ground to tear open.
The mastodon remains were discovered at the Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego by palaeontologists from the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Pictured edging out of her dry dock at Barrow-in-Furness, today preparations began to get the Royal Navy's latest submarine water-ready ahead of its first trip in the sea.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
Stunning new images show a series of tiny motorcycles being tested by astronauts in full spacesuits at NASA's mission control and even aboard zero gravity flights to replicate lunar gravity.
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.
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