Science

Roger Jepson braved days of downpours hoping to photograph an otter but was instead rewarded with pictures of a unique meteorological event over Fishnish Port on the Isle of Mull.

Dara Khosrowshahi, 48, will have to overhaul the taxi app firm's image, repair relations with its investors and make it profitable.

The story of an unsung unit of World War Two soldiers who stood alongside the infamous 'Band of Brothers' to repel Hitler's last major offensive has been revealed in a new book.

A new poll reveals what Britons think of their European neighbours and what they think about us.

Siblings Darla and Spanky were treated with a therapy for children with spina bifida. A video shows the puppies showing off their ability to walk, run and play in Davis, California.

Top UFO expert and author Philip Mantle has probed hundreds of close encounters over the years. Now, he has recounted his five favourite incidents ahead of a UFO event in Hull next month.

Researchers from the University of Buckingham looked at the effect of watching sexually explicit material at a young age on sexual behaviour.

University of Nevada engineers on Wednesday will rattle a 100-ton, 70-foot (21-meter) bridge model to see how it holds up on a giant contraption in a Reno seismology lab called a 'shake table.'

The number of middle-aged British men who are taking up cycling is growing. The men said that they enjoy it because it makes them feel connected to others and celebrate mastering tasks.

In an effort to reduce cases of hospital-acquired infections, researchers at Stanford University developed an AI camera-tracking system that identifies when staff use hand sanitizer dispensers.

Pond-dwelling jellies were recently spotted for the first time in Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada, when they were exposed by unusually low water levels.

From more than 3,500 entries, judges at the Royal Photographic Society Images of Science Competition have named these as the best of 2017. They include an amazing image of a pork tapeworm.

From the giant huntsman spider of Laos to the highly aggressive Asian giant hornet, these are the creepy-crawlies you won't have any trouble spotting on holiday.

Despite weather forecasts on TV and online that depend on the latest computer modelling, three in four of us rely on old wives' tales to predict the weather, according to a survey.

Remarkable black and white images show the small, large,and malformed individuals who were exhibited as human curiosities to the paying public in the United States

Researchers from Imperial College London have discovered cosmic dust in chalk samples from the white cliffs of Dover. They also say dust can be used to trace the location of water-rich asteroids.

Apple's Watch will free you from your phone - while making sure you don't suffer the fear of missing out. It's a huge step forward, and a compelling reason for the average user to buy a smartwatch.

Researchers at the University of Toronto Mississauga found that the ancestors of toothless, modern frogs had large fangs and thousands of tiny hook-like structures called denticles to snare prey.

Twenty-five criminals were arrested at a beer festival in Qingdao, China, after police used facial recognition technology to catch them. Cameras identified each suspect in under a second.

This historic footage shows how the Soviet Union detonated a nuclear bomb underground to extinguish a fire in a natural gas field in Uzbekistan in September 1966.

This is the moment a gang of chimpanzees dethrone their alpha male - by attacking him (pictured) and leaving him bloodied on the ground. It was seen at Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania.

Samuel Payler, a doctoral candidate at the UK Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, was among five other researchers who entered the dome in Hawaii back in January.

Mexican scientists said Wednesday they have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of giant sloth that lived 10,000 years ago and died at the bottom of a sinkhole.

Experts say the subsurface ocean that lurks beneath the moon's icy crust has all the ingredients for life. In the new image, the intriguing south-polar jets are backlit by sunlight.

Harold R McCluskey was contaminated with radioactive material in 1976 when he was 64 at a blast at Hanford in Washington State. He lived another 11 years from unrelated causes.

The laser, which was tested at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico successfully hit a target 0.9 miles (1.4 km) away from an Apache AH-64 helicopter (pictured).

Researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology studied the stinging mechanism of the nomad jellyfish - the most common jellyfish in Israel.

Using ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, scientists have found evidence of low-frequency 'g-waves,' revealing the core spins much faster than the sun's surface.

Nearly a million Twitter accounts have been suspended for promoting terrorism in less than two years, new figures reveal.

Dubbed ‘Florence,’ the huge space rock will pass 4.4 million miles from our planet – or, about 18 times the distance between Earth and the moon (stock image).

The stunning image, captured on July 26, 2017 by member of the Expedition 52 crew aboard the International Space Station, shows one of the 16 sunrises the crew get to see every day.

The 'sunscreen' on the distant gas giant, known as WASP-121b, was identified by scientists at Exeter University observing glowing water molecules in the atmosphere.

The watch has been designed by Hong Kong-based Airconwatch, and is based on the premise that changing the temperature of a patch of skin can change the temperature of the whole body.

While the upper part of the 1,000-seat Steve Jobs Theater has been seen in other photos, this is the first look at the main part of the theater where the firm will unveil the new iPhone 8 next week.

The images were taken with Hinode's X-ray telescope (XRT) as it flew above the Pacific Ocean, off the west coast of the United States, at an altitude of approximately 422 miles (680 km).

SpaceX launched the Air Force's super-secret space shuttle, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbit. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center.

Many users haven't felt the need for the dedicated button or have been annoyed by how often its placement caused them to accidentally launch Bixby, but Samsung wouldn't allow users to turn it off.

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (Chime), has four 100-meter-long U-shaped cylinders, to detect signals from when the universe was between 6 and 11 billion years old.

To help upcoming iPhone X users protect themselves after the meme response to Face ID, online retailers are now selling masks and 'anti-facial recognition headgear.'

The video was taken by a diver, known only as 'kobrowisky', while cage diving off the coast of Gansbaai, South Africa.

Researchers from Yale University are the first to track the link between the brain's development and the roofing bones of the skull.

The video, taken in June of 1961, shows Hal Graham - a Buck Rogers fan and pilot of the rocket belt - strapping himself in before attempting to fly over Buffalo’s Niagara Falls Boulevard.

Researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are making a prototype (concept image) of the Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) which is made to land on Venus.

Researchers from Ibaraki University in Japan discovered the obsidian stones while excavating the ancient Mayan city of Ceibal in the north of Guatemala.

The 27th annual Ig Nobel awards were announced last night at Harvard University in Boston, with winners including the scientists who discovered that old men really do have big ears.

Sebastian Thrun, who founded Google X and flying car firm Kitty Hawk, announced the new course today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.

South Park viewers scrambled to unplug their Alexa and Google Home devices, after the season premiere had smart assistants setting alarms, creating shopping lists, and spewing obscenities.

Archaeologists have completed the first in a series of excavations at the site of the ancient city Shiloh, on the West Bank, in hopes to uncover evidence of a biblical structure.

The study by Signs, a design firm based in Salt Lake City, looked at how well people can draw famous logos from memory, including Burger King, Starbucks and Apple.

The TIKAD drone, which was tested on a target in Israel in 2015, is remotely-operated and can fire military weapons, including rifles and grenade launchers. It is being pitched to the US military.

Algae living on Arctic glaciers are turning the surface crimson - reducing their ability to reflect sunlight, according to research led by Alaska Pacific University.

A researcher from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, had an electric eel shock his own arm to test whether their jolt is more powerful when they leap from the water to ward off predators

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) in Chile's Atacama Desert will scour the cosmos for the possible chemical fingerprints of life on distant planets, and could even image faraway oceans and continents.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney believe they have cracked the complex mathematical code of a 3,700-year old clay tablet.

Scientists from the Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile used the Very Large Telescope to map Antares's surface and to measure the motions of the surface material.

An ancient skeleton discovered in a Mexican cave could be one of the earliest examples of human settlement in the Americas. Isotopic analysis has dated it back to 13,000 years ago.

Archaeologist Kathryn Krakowka from the University of Oxford examined skulls from over 750 skeletons found in London cemeteries dating from 1050 to 1550 AD.

Aerial footage of the new state-of-art Apple complex in Cupertino, California was released on Tuesday, just as the American multinational technology company sets to open its new facility next week.

The test version of a spacecraft resembling a mini space shuttle was carried aloft over the Mojave Desert by a helicopter Wednesday in a precursor to a free flight.

BBC director Rebecca Harrison has revealed her terror after coming face-to-face with psychopaths in an American prison for a new documentary on what drives them and whether they can be cured.

Timothy Allen trekked through the Siberian wilderness for 16 days on part of an 800km reindeer migration in the Yamal-Nenets region, a name that roughly translates to 'edge of the world'.

Raymond Szymanksi says aliens from the infamous crash were bought to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton, Ohio for inspection.

The breathtaking footage reveals the moment Cassini lifted off from the Cape Canaveral launchpad on October 15, 1997, as mission control counts down to the start of a remarkable journey.

Radar images captured during the August 29-Sept 1 flyby have uncovered new details on the space rock, dubbed ‘Florence’ – and, they’ve revealed the asteroid has two small moons orbiting it.

Channel 5's In Solitary saw five people locked away from the outside with nothing but themselves to keep them entertained. One contestant Sarah began talking to herself after just 72 hours.

A team of engineers at Columbia University has developed an artificial muscle that can push, pull, bend and twist, as well as lift weight, at low voltage without the need for an external compressor.

Researchers from the University of Oxford conducted the first ever radiocarbon dating on the Bakhshali manuscript and revealed that it dates from as early as the 3rd century.

Dr Jurgen Otto spotted the five new species of spider on his travels through Western Australia, including the Jotus auripes spider, which has almost holographic bristles at the front.

The UB II-type dive boat (pictured) is 88-feet long and almost 20-feet wide, and is lying at about a 45 degree angle, about 100 feet below the surface in Western Flanders, Belgium.

Renault is officially unveiling its new concept car that features moveable armchairs, a lifting platform, atmospheric lighting and wifi and more and could be on the roads by 2030.

Half a mile off the coast of Japan, a diver has discovered what appears to be the remains of Shinyo kamikaze boats deliberately sunk to the seafloor, 32 meters (105ft) deep.

The remarkable creatures were spotted during recent dives in the mysterious deep-water areas around the Musicians Seamounts and the Hawaiian Islands, led by the Okeanos Explorer.

Researchers from Nasas Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have released images taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft that capture the aurora in the closest detail ever recorded.

A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of human sacrifice of women and children in the Aztec Empire.

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.