Science

NEW A Massachusetts-based space expert has warned that a trio of unusually agile Russian satellites that appeared to lay dormant for two years could be a stealthy new breed of space weapons.

London-based banking firm HSBC introduced voice recognition last year to increase account security but the software was found to be vulnerable to mimicry after a pair of non-identical twins tested it out.

The Apple boss has been spotted trailing a wearable device on the Apple campus in Palo Alto that could provide real-time information on how exercise and food changes blood sugar levels.

A team, including scientists from the University of Exeter, used moss bank cores – which are well preserved in Antarctica's cold conditions – from an area spanning 400 miles to make the discovery.

A Young-Earth creationist called Andrew Snelling who believes the Earth is only a few thousand years old is suing Grand Canyon park administrators for not letting him remove rocks for research (stock image).

A trove of personal data stolen from Indian restaurant startup firm Zomato was being auctioned on the dark web for around $1,000 (£770) by a hacker until yesterday.

China has successfully mined flammable ice at sea after two decades of research work. The flammable ice was found in the South China Sea in 2007.

Seven-year-old Aasher Liles, named by his parents with an extra A to reflect his extra chromosome, took the photo using his mother Kerri's phone on a flight home to Houston, Texas.

The controversial topic was brought up at a Vatican event aimed at raising awareness of Huntington's disease, an incurable genetic disorder.

Employees claims the CEO Elon Musk, 45, ignored the working conditions at the factory in Fremont, California, because he disregarded his employees' safety.

The wing-assisted hop requires less energy than simply flying, and it could have been used by dinosaurs before they developed full flight, researchers at Stanford University found.

A new study found that these tests triggered changes similar to those resulting from naturally-occurring space weather, creating temporary radiation belts and artificial auroras.

Researchers at The Rockefeller University found that human brain circuitry associated with understanding another person's thoughts may have evolved from macaques.

If Antarctica's land height is reduced to a similar height to the Arctic, temperatures respond more strongly to greenhouse gases over, contributing to an increase in Antarctic warming.

Researchers from the University of St Andrews asked male and female subjects in different areas which men and women they found most attractive from digitally-manipulated face pairs.

Darmouth College has found that those who struggle to cope with uncertainty have an enlargement of a brain region associated with decision making and motor control.

The contest, launching in central London this evening, will challenge groups and individuals to find new ways of designing packaging to help keep it out of the oceans.

The results published in Sleep Health suggest that in office environments, being exposed to daylight or electric lights that are rich in short wave 'blue' light may be important for the health of workers.

There is also a bottom bar for Home, Calls, the Camera button, People and Games. The new 'simpler' design will be rolling out worldwide on iOS and Android this week.

Vladimir Solntsev, general director of Moscow-based RSC Energia is sceptical of SpaceX's plans to launch tourists into space next year, claiming that 'nobody has even seen the designs.'

Researchers from the University of Florida looked at surveys of 116 leaders across a broad range of fields and found that acting abusively can harm bullying bosses' psychological welfare (stock).

The global file-sharing site's closure was announced in a homepage message saying 'Extra Torrent has shut down permanently'.

The chief executive of the UK Recycling Association said there had been 'some extraordinary progress' but manufacturers needed to pay more attention to their sometimes 'idiotic' packaging.

Researchers at the University of Wroclaw in Poland looked through 30 years of literature and found voice and scent reveal a range of characteristics about someone (stock image).

Researchers from The Royal Veterinary College in London used high-speed cameras to reveal the extreme range of jump angles frogs are capable of.

Fascinating pictures of weightlifting machines from 1892 show suited men and women in full length dresses attempt to improve their fitness.

Researchers examined the physiques of 2,000 men and determined they each fall into one of five 'shapes': the rectangle, the oval, the triangle, the rhomboid or the inverted triangle.

University of Washington and Cambridge-based ARM are working on a chip to allow paralysed people and those wearing prosthetic limbs to control the body’s muscle functions.

The tiny holograms, which can be seen without 3D glasses, were created by an Australian-Chinese team from RMIT University in Melbourne.

Google's notorious 'blob' emoji is set to retire, but will be replaced with a collection of detailed and colorful pictographs, which will be introduced with the Android O later this year.

The paper, developed by researchers at the South China University of Technology and Monash University in Australia, is made using rollers that coat the paper with ionic gels to make it conductive.

Hospitals including Stanford Medicine and UC San Francisco are sharing data with Google Brain in order to help build technology that can predict when people are about to get sick (stock image).

2Day FM asked kids under the age of five what they thought a host of technological items were. These products are now considered retro and many of them are now out of fashion.

In the battle of the popstars, male artists reign supreme. A study found men produced a higher percentage of popular songs than female performers over the decades.

Research led by experts from Boston Children's Hospital has for the first time used 'pluripotent' stem cells to manufacture a broad range of human blood cells.

A German firm unveiled technology that could put an end to language barriers Called Dash Pro, the earbuds combine with the iTranslate app to translate nearly 40 languages in real-time.

WhatsApp users across the globe have been left in the dark, as the app has mysteriously crashed for the second time this month. Users are experiencing connection and messaging issues.

A new analysis of a 3-million-year-old jaw bone reveals that the early ancestor thrived as the plains dried out. The jawbone was discovered in the Ledi-Geraru region of Ethiopia in 2013.

Researchers from the Ulster Institute for Social Research and Rotterdam University were interested in understanding whether religion is something that evolved, or is instinctive.

Just 14 days of lounging around on a beach affects your muscle mass and produces metabolic changes that drastically affect your heart health, according to a study by the University of Liverpool.

San Francisco-based non-profit Open AI, founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, is creating robots that copy humans by watching simulations.

EXCLUSIVE: Survey reveals 26% of people are conscious of how much sugar is in their food and drink, 32% of over 55 year olds never exercise and 46% have tried a fad diet.

Seattle-based Amazon has added the Fire 7 for £49.99 ($49.99) and Fire HD 8 for £79.99 ($79.99) to its growing list of Fire Tablets. This is the first time that Alexa will be available for Fire devices.

Pranay Varada, a teenager from Texas, has taken home the top prizes - including a $50,000 scholarship - in this year's edition of the National Geographic Bee, held Wednesday.

Istanbul is overdue for an earthquake on the North Anatolian Fault Zone which could happen below the gates of the city, say researchers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geoscience.

Scientists found a colony the rare ants in Singapore. They found that the ants were not aggressive, were mostly nocturnal and spent much of their time underground.

While growling and teeth baring are obvious signs new research has revealed that canines display other subtle signs that often go totally unnoticed by people.

The study, led by the University of Surrey, said future urban planning should include a variety of green infrastructure to help protect people and buildings from the effects of pollution

Philanthropist Bill Gates, who is worth $85billion, sent a tweetstorm on Monday revealing his career advice to new US college graduates.

Samir Samirovich, from Syzran in Russia spent more than seven hours knitting the photographs together to create the combined photograph which he shared on social media.

Two years after unveiling a bulky prototype of their ‘ultra-fast-charging’ technology, Israeli startup StoreDot says the FlashBattery is set to begin production in early 2018.

Rising sea surface temperatures, which reduce spawning in fish, making it more difficult for penguins to forage, researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand found.

Reuben Paul is still only in 6th grade at his school in Austin, Texas, but stunned an audience of security experts Tuesday by hacking into their Bluetooth devices at a conference.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute assessed several types of moral enhancement, and found many don't work, and have side effects.

The US Patent Office, based in Washington DC, has published a list of 56 Apple applications that may shed light on the design of the upcoming 10th anniversary edition of the firm's flagship handset.

Rob Bertholee told cyber security experts in The Hague in London that sabotage of critical infrastructure 'is the kind of thing that might keep you awake at night,' and threats surround us.

‘People familiar with the matter’ have revealed that the Apple is set to unveil three revamped MacBooks at the Worldwide Developers Conference set to kick off in June.

VirtuCare was designed by Hertfordshire based organisations, Tribemix and Quantum Care, and is delivered as a package including a VR Ready laptop, Oculus Rift, and 12 pre-installed VR scenes.

Hewlett Packard has unveiled a computer prototype that boasts the largest single-memory bases system the world has ever seen. It contains 160 terabytes of memory or 160 million books.

Researchers led by Northwestern University in Illinois conducted an experiment using mice, to test whether infertility in women caused by medical treatments can be reversed.

Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston also linked lack of sleep with urinary problems and erectile dysfunction. One in eight people in the UK work nights.

A study from University of British Columbia suggests there is a huge density of vacuum energy in the universe – but, oscillations between expansion and contraction cause it to nearly cancel itself out.

Gymder app is primarily a way to find people to work out with and share tips with according to the Munich-based company which specifies that it is a 'platform for fitness'.

Professor Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist at Columbia University in New York, predicts that in a million years' time, humans will find it difficult to define what it means to be human in a tech-dominated world.

A research team led by Lehigh University in Pennsylvania has found a gas planet like Jupiter that could become the gold standard in measuring the atmospheres of Earth-like planets found in the future.

Users across the UK have reported issues with both the 4G  and the 3G networks. EE has not said what the problem is, simply saying that its is 'aware of the issue' and is 'working to fix it.'

After WannaCry, a ransomware program based on the leaked NSA exploit EternalBlue that hit hundreds of thousands of machines last week, criminals have adapted another NSA tool.

Vaquitas, the world's most-threatened marine mammal, are only found in Mexico's Upper Gulf of California, where their population has declined to fewer than 30 individuals in the latest estimates.

The snake fossil, discovered in eastern Tennessee, had wing-shaped projections on the sides of its vertebrae which were likely attachment sites for the the snake's back muscles.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo constructed a transparent artificial forewing and transplanted it on a spotted ladybug to study the folding motion using high speed cameras.

A researcher at University of Warwick has revealed how ultrasound technology is making its way into more applications and powering inventions that could change the world forever.

International students have revealed plans to build a fueling station between Earth and the moon, which consists of three types rovers to mine ice, make liquid propellant and transfer it to the craft.

Henderson Island is a sanctuary to a host of threatened species including the Henderson Petrel and Henderson Crake, and its beaches are a nesting site for the endangered green turtle.

It seems Apple has big plans for its WWDC in June. Rumors have suggested that the firm will unveil a 10.5-inch iPad Pro along with a Siri-enabled smart speaker to take on Amazon.

A federal judge has ordered Uber to stop using technology that a key executive downloaded before he left Waymo, the Alphabet Inc. autonomous car arm that was spun off from Google.

New York is exploring new legislation that would allow police officers to use a 'textalyzer' to determine whether a driver was using their mobile device moments before accident without a warrant.

New Oxford University research suggests magnetic field reversals may be caused by regions on top of the Earth's core behaving like giant lava lamps, with blobs of rock rising and falling inside.

The study was undertaken by a team that included scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the US non-profit organisation the International Council on Clean Transportation.

The hackers, who crippled the NHS and hit 200,000 victims in 150 countries, have now re-written their malware to close a loophole and it is already being spread across the world.

Despite the growing disbelief in a higher being, Robert Nelson, a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland explores how his belief in God is rooted in logic and science.

'Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy,' reveals a new story about President Trump.

A mass of rotting flesh which washed up in Indonesia last week was once a baleen whale, experts said, pointing to distinctive bones poking out of the carcass as evidence.

The Munich-based Fraunhofer Institute has officially terminated its licensing programme for certain MP3-related patents in a move dubbed the 'official death warrant' of the format (stock image)

Researchers from the University of Toronto, Scarborough created an animation where the planets play a piano note every time they pass in front of their host star.

A study by the University of Missouri suggests there is very little difference between our 'sober' and 'drunk' personalities - even though we might think we're completely different (stock image).

The Japanese government says it sees a larger proportion of investment being dedicated to robotics by mid-sized firms, including the Hen na Hotel in Tokyo.

Microsoft President Brad Smith blamed the US government for not disclosing vulnerabilities that led to last week's global 'WannaCry' ransomware attacks on businesses and hospitals.