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Dr Philip Nitschke, 70, who has been branded 'Dr Death' following 22 years in the field of euthanasia, recently unveiled plans for his futuristic death machine, the Sarco.

Small cracks have appeared in a new concrete spillway at Oroville Dam, a development state officials say was expected but an engineering expert says could lead to issues.

Nearly 1,000 pieces of litter are discarded for every 100 metres of coastline – with single-use containers most at fault according to new research by the Marine Conservation Society.

Uber has revealed that 2.7 million UK users of its app were affected by a 2016 data breach that it covered up for more than a year.

New UK documentary The Sex Robots Are Coming tells the story of engineer James, 58, whose mistress is a 5ft tall blonde robot called April. He says the relationship has his wife's blessing.

According to new NASA research, heat created by the gravitational pull of moons formed in large collisions could be enough to extend the lifetimes of these subsurface oceans.

More than 1,300 professional and amateur photographers from around the globe entered their stunning landscape images into the 2017 Epson International Pano Awards.

Emotional viewers of the BBC One programme took to Twitter to express their dismay at the state of the oceans after a pilot whale was filmed cradling her dead baby round the ocean.

Treasury sources hailed the 'innovative and novel' change, designed to tackle a new tactic employed by internet firms to add an extra leg to redirecting activity off shore.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has bragged that his country has achieved full nuclear statehood after successfully testing a new missile capable of hitting anywhere in the United States.

In Ladakh, India, wildlife photographer Inger Vandyke captured what at first appears to be a photo of blue sheep gathering on the side of a rocky slope. But a closer look reveals a snow lurking.

An autopsy reported obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com reveals famed paleontologist Mike Getty, 50, died of a heart attack.

Footage shows a bright light in the sky over Inari in Finland - but the flash was so intense it was also seen in Russia's Kola Peninsula and in northern Norway.

When it comes to popularity on Instagram, New York rules the roost. It's the most Instagrammed city and dominates the location rankings, too, with Times Square and Central Park at No2 and No3.

These terrifying photos show massive lava flows surging down the rivers surrounding Bali's erupting Mount Agung, as fears grow the volcano is set to blow.

A 'lost' painting of Britain's foremost naval hero Admiral Lord Nelson showing his facial scarring and missing eyebrow, features usually left out of portraits, is to go on display in London.

Experts speculate the gold coin, found in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, may have been dropped by one of Richard's soldiers fleeing the pivotal Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

Inspired by his fear of being buried alive, composer Frederic Chopin asked that his heart be removed from his body in Paris, to be enshrined in his native Poland.

Two Canadian amateur explorers discovered 15,000-year-old caves just 30 feet underneath the surface of Montreal, it was revealed on Tuesday.

Joe Nadeau, principal scientist at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute in Seattle, believes eggs are an active player in reproduction and have a control over their offspring.

Research company Flashlight, which released the report, said the situation is so worrying that one American bank has banned buying flights in Russia using its reward scheme.

The 'AI child' created by Mountain View-based researchers from Google is proof machine-made programmes are now more accurate than ones created by humans.

The Exo-K9 exoskeleton is a 3D printed mask for dogs with injuries to their jaw. It was developed by veterinarians and biomedical engineering students at the University of California, Davis.

British spy agencies are to use computer algorithms to keep tabs on 20,000 former terror suspects because they don't have the manpower to physically watch all of them at once.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have tested a new tool on a sample of 400 apps, and found that several banking apps had a critical vulnerability.

Villagers in China were left baffled by a strangely shaped cloud that appeared in the sky last week. Incredible footage captured on phone shows the orange-hued cloud floating in a clear sky.

Based on photographs released by North Korea, analysts have determined the Hwasong-15 - an ICBM launched yesterday - is taller, wider and capable of carrying a much bigger payload.

The US justices let stand without comment a 2016 appeals court verdict reinstating the award for Apple, which sued Samsung over patents for 'slide to unlock' and other features on smartphones.

Researchers from the Global Wildlife Conservation found the new species in Kaieteur National Park and the Upper Potaro area in Guyana – parts of an intact forest landscape.

While this greenery near Hazel Glen College in Melbourne appears to show off the healthy effects of Victoria's recent rainfall, it also hides a deadly secret - in the form of a venomous snake.

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth tested 24 dogs of different breeds by presenting them with four different situations, recording their facial responses for analysis.

Many believe the battle took place in Bromborough on the Wirral, Merseyside, but historian Professor Michael Wood is convinced it unfolded in South Yorkshire (pictured).

Humans could be 'melded' to machines, giving us huge advancements in the power of human brains, experts told peers at the House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee in London.

Observations published by the Massachusetts-based International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Centre (MPC) suggest the comet likely escaped the orbit of another star.

Volocopter, based near Frankfurt, Germany, has claimed a commercial service powered by the electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft could be running before 2020.

It is controlled using small sensors in the fingers, and a demonstration video shows it pinching and gripping, with each finger moving independently.

The find (left) was made in the coastal city of Ashdod, by a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University and Leipzig University.

After an unusually warm October, Britain could be facing a 'full La Nina event' that brings both a White Christmas and puts the nation at risk of a flu pandemic.

Experts at Las Cumbres Observatory in Goleta, California, have been studying an event known as iPTF14hls which appeared for more than 600 days, six times longer than others of its type.

The image was taken on October 24 when Nasa's Juno spacecraft was 20,577 miles (33,115 kilometres) above the tops of the clouds of the planet.

The tanks that fought epic duels in the North African desert, among European towns and in the jungles of Asia have been brought stunningly to life. Among the stunning vehicles are the infamous Tiger Tanks.

Tony Ferguson had been enjoying a trip to Nottingham with a friend when the pair visited the 500 caverns in the City of Caves that lie below the Broadmarsh shopping centre.

New advances in graphic manipulations by Santa Clara-based technology company Nvidia mean artificial simulations are indistinguishable from the real thing.

Researchers at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada suggest that the armored plating of the dinosaur fossil may have helped it attract mates, as well as to ward off challengers.

Scientists from Santa Clara-based Nvidia have combined a pair of artificial intelligence system to generate photo-realistic faces of 'fake' celebrities.

While it might appear alarming, the phenomenon is no cause for worry; NASA says this particular coronal hole was likely to blame for breathtaking auroras seen earlier this month.

This incredible image shows a rare formation of ice in Antarctica known as 'finger rafting,' which occurs when two floes of thin sea ice collide.

As part of the deal, Japan's number two carrier, based in Tokyo, has the option to purchase up to 20 Boom aircraft and will provide its knowledge and experience as an airline to hone the aircraft's design.

The painstaking restoration will recreate the room as it was during the moon landing on July 20, 1969. Even the ashtrays, coffee cups and paperwork on the desks will be put back in place.

Samantha went on sale in London this summer, but demand for the bot has become so high that its designers are looking to go into mass production in Wales.

The two teeth, found by a student at Portsmouth University on exposed cliffs near Swanage, are from the earliest undisputed fossils of mammals belonging to the line that led to human beings.

Stranger Things is one of the most popular science fiction shows in recent years, but it's cast has revealed that the writers and creators were inspired by rumors about a real airbase.

Chicago-based Motorola has released an advert to promote its Z2 Play smartphone that mocks both Apple and Samsung, and follows on from Samsung's recent anti-Apple advert.

An estimated 46,000 pre-colonial sites dot Peru's landscape. About 400 of them are in Lima, which is home to the biggest number of pre-colonial archaeological zones of any city in South America.

Dr William Marston, a leading name in his field, who was educated at Harvard University, can be seen conducting a series of experiments on three women with different colour hair.

There is a lack of contemporary evidence that Leonardo was responsible for Salvator Mundi, which was sold in New York on Wednesday night by Christie's.

Alphabet's Waymo self-driving unit is launching a ride-hailing service for the general public with no human driver behind the steering wheel. The firm has been testing on public roads in Arizona.

The remarkable 'tattooed' lobster was trapped by Karissa Lindstrand off the coast of Gran Manan in New Brunswick. It was being loaded into a crate to have its claws banded.

The Antonov AN-22 is rarely spotted and drew a crowd of aviation enthusiasts to witness it. It flew in from Helsinki, Finland.

Coventry based car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover is taking part in the UK Autodrive project, the largest trial of connected and autonomous vehicle technology in the country.

As tourist Matthew Poole filmed the patient predator stalking its next meal on the Sand River bank at Beyond Kirkmans Kamp in South Africa, his shot was invaded by two lovers.

The heads of the largest tech companies have sought solace at Esalen Institute, a nonprofit spiritual retreat where visitors do yoga and meditation exercises and learn tantric sex.

Ginger cats on the lookout for pesky dogs in the park can rest easy, as a new study by researchers from the University of Bari, Italy, has revealed that pooches are colour blind.

Google Earth partnered with environmental sensor network firm Aclima to map air pollution across California, with the hopes of using the information to help build smarter, more sustainable cities.

The UK Department for Transport claims that it is likely to be 'at least a couple of decades' before an operational Hyperloop system is ready, due to the 'scale of the technical challenges involved.'

From a poodle's strut to a basset hound's lolloping gait, scientists plan to capture the movements of different breeds to make on-screen animated dogs played by humans more authentic.

For years we have only been able to imagine what this treasure looks like because shortly after World War II it was stolen from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich by a cat burglar.

The Soreq creek in Jerusalem is full of mosquitoes that serve as food for web-weaving long-jawed spiders that reproduce in their multitudes.

MekaMon, which launches today on the Apple store for £300 ($300), was created by Bristol-based company Reach Robotics and has bot-on-bot brawls in real life and on the screen.

In 2007, the German government drilled seven boreholes behind Staufen's town hall for geothermal energy. Staufen lies above a layer of anhydrite, beneath which is a layer of groundwater. The boreholes released water into the anhydrite, where it formed gypsum which expands by about 50 per cent. This causes the ground expand and bulging, forming cracks in buildings (pictured).

A new analysis of the 'Dali skull', found in China's Shaanxi Province, shows it is remarkably similar to the earliest known fossil of our species, found in Morocco in June.

The map, created by UFO Stalker based on the California-based MUFON Case Management System, reveals that a total of 83,715 sightings have been reported this year alone.

Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser was carried to an altitude of 10,000 and then dropped to glide to the ground and land on a runway at Edwards Air Force Base.

Experts led by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in Daejon, South Korea, have reported the discovery of a strange celestial body 22 light years away.

Researchers at Duke University found that bonobos at Lola Ya Bonobo Santuary, Democratic Republic of Congoelp strangers get food when there's no sign of receiving anything in return.

The cub was aged between six and eight weeks old when it died for unknown reasons on the bank of Tirekhtykh River, in the Abyisky district of Yakutia.

The new map of reported UFO sightings in the US was created by Data Solutions Engineer Adam Crahen of the Data Duo , using data from Kaggle UFO sightings.

Scientists from the Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere caught the rare frilled shark while working off the Algarve coast this week.

While scientists have yet to discover the conditions needed to travel back in time, 'there's nothing forbidding it' in the laws of physics, explains astrophysicist Ethan Siegel.

LA-based Google's Vice President of Chrome Dan Fisher has warned anything watched on incognito is 'certainly still visible' to your employee, school or service provider (stock image).

Dr Melanie Windridge, who has a PhD from Imperial College London, warned we only have 15 minutes to understand the specific conditions of coronal mass ejections flying towards Earth.

The 'lone genius' scientist stereotype could be dangerous, as the opinion of a lone commenter may be considered equal with that of hundreds of people who have made the subject their life's work

The Dongfeng-41 missile (pictured) will be finished in the first half of 2018, according to state media, after successful tests in an undisclosed location in the Western desert area.

The machine was developed by researchers at the University of Sussex to help them better understand how the brain responds to altering realities. (Stock image)

Researchers from the University at Buffalo analysed nine 'Yeti' specimens - including bone, tooth, skin, hair and faecal samples - collected in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau.

GMC's All Mountain concept has bodyside graphics of mountains, a 30-inch light bar and snowboard racks - making it ideally suited for snow sport enthusiasts and snowy-mountain dwellers.

A psychologist at the University of Cardiff found that people who are frustrated with their daily lives tend to have recurring dreams in which they were falling, failing or being attacked.

The Russian designed drone can carry a 400-pound (181-kg) payload and fly for up to eight hours. It has applications in areas such as aerial pesticide application and food and medicine delivery.

These incredible images from iFixit reveal several surprises inside the handset. Apple managed to cram in two batteries for instance, allowing them to arrange them in an L shape to optimise space.

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.