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Mystery as four ancient child graves found in Egypt

NEW The child burials were found during excavations at Gebel el-Silsila, which was once a quarry site during the Thutmosid period, from roughly 1493 BCE to 1401.The first grave contains the body of a toddler, aged just 2-3 years old (top right). In the second and third graves, they found a child age 6-9 years old (main image), and 5-8 years old (left), both buried with an assortment of goods. This includes beer jars, wine vessels, plates, and bowls, bronze bracelets, and a bronze razor, according to the Luxor Times . They also found jewelry, including scarabs and amulets. At the fourth burial site (bottom right)), the team found a very different scenario. A child, also estimated to be about 5-8 years old, had been buried ‘without any obvious care.' It was covered in quarry spoil, and showed signs of sickness and injury.

Tesla gives cancer sufferer Model 3 early

Tesla has helped a car fan suffering from terminal cancer fulfil his dream of owning the firm's Model 3 electric car.  The customer, from Grass Valley, California, had already preordered his car and had been posting in an online forum speculating about the delivery dates for the vehicle. His post was spotted by a fellow owner who sent it to a friend at Tesla - culminating in a factory tour and his car being delivered just days later (left and inset).

New guidance from the California health department warns that keeping a cell phone constantly close to your body could expose you to cancer and infertility-causing radiation.

Facebook said that social media can be good for people's well-being if they use the technology in a way that is active, such as messaging with friends, rather than using it passively.

The footage, shot 200 miles above the Earth, was posted to YouTube by UFO hunter Streetcap1 and has been described variously as a a weapon, teleportation, or data transfer device.

India's Andhra Pradesh state government is to use the newly developed technology that has the potential to provide high-speed wireless internet to millions of people without laying cable.

U.S. artificial intelligence expert Martin Ford, has warned that all human jobs will be replaced by robots in the future, but that plumbers, electricians and nurses will stay in employment the longest.

The Kings College London findings dispute the substantial body of evidence that links smoking cannabis to the mental health condition that drives some to suicide.

Facebook says the new feature is designed to allow people to turn off updates from friends for 30 days at a time - and says it is in response from user complaints.

A weather station in Utqiaġvik, northern Alaska has experienced such extreme global warming that it tricked a computer algorithm into deleting all data for over a year.

Corpse resembling a dinosaur found in India

The partially-preserved corpse (main) was discovered by an electrician cleaning out a sub-station that had been left untouched for 35 years in Jaspur, a small city in Uttarakhand, India. It resembles a small dinosaur, but since flightless dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years ago, scientists have struggled to identify it. The creature has now been sent for analysis, including carbon dating, which will reveal its age. Inset: A dakotaraptor as it might have appeared 66 million years ago.

Binghampton University in New York has found that human memory is better when we are thinking about raising our children, new research suggests (stock)

After a meeting voting to end net neutrality, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai answers a question from a reporter, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Under the new rules companies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T; would be free to slow down or block access to services they don't like ans charge higher fees to rivals.

After a series of delays, the firm’s CRS-13 mission to the ISS finally blasted off from the Cape Canaveral launchpad in Florida just before 11 a.m., using a recycled rocket and capsule.

AOL said the once hugely popular service 'tapped into new digital technologies and ignited a cultural shift', but admitted 'the way in which we communicate has profoundly changed.'

The findings were published in a report created by Santa Monica, California based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which warns of an Orwellian future.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales have developed a microchip that allows quantum calculations to be performed using existing semiconductor components.

There are fears Russia has the capability to tap, disrupt and even sever the underwater cables that link our internet and phone networks to the rest of the world.

Experts from the Breakthrough Listen project used the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, to follow the object for ten hours on Wednesday from around 8pm GMT (3pm ET).

Secrets of the Roman Empire's ancient and 'luxurious' harbour of Corinth are revealed in new underwater excavations

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of 'large scale engineering' (right images) at the Roman port of Lechaion (birds-eye view pictured left), on the Corinthian Gulf, Greece. Wooden foundations preserved so well they look new have been found at the site, as well as a host of Roman artefacts including fishing lines and hooks, wooden pulleys and ceramics imported from Tunisia and Turkey. These discoveries are helping researchers understand the infrastructure and layout of an ancient port that flourished with maritime trade for thousands of years.

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Is this what doomsday will look like? Dozens of declassified US nuclear test clips from the 1950s are released to the public for the first time

Experts at the Livermore National Laboratory in California are meticulously scanning films of nuclear detonations captured by United States military researchers. As well as saving the footage before the film it is stored on deteriorates, the scanned files are being used by nuclear scientists to improve weapons simulations. The US military hasn't conducted a nuclear test since 1992, now preferring to use computer simulations to calculate the impact of newly developed weapons. Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted more than 1,054 nuclear arms tests. Two hundred and ten of these were atmospheric nuclear tests, including blasts codenamed 'Nutmeg' (main image) and 'Turk' (inset image). The explosions were detonated over New Mexico, Nevada, and both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Rsearchers from Nottingham Trent University and India's Thiagarajar School confirmed ‘selfitis’ does exist. There are three categories – borderline, acute and chronic.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The Forensic Anthropology Centre at Texas State University is able to use the donated dead bodies and compare them to those killed in suspicious circumstances.

Brain implants could mean machines merge with humans and start to take on human traits, Dr Mikhail Lebedev, an expert at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, claims.

Professor David Nutt of Imperial College says alcosynth will be the new booze within 10 or 20 years, it's said. The man-made alternative has the same effects but doesn't damage your health.

At its closest on Saturday 16th December, the asteroid is estimated to be around 6.4 million miles away from our planet – 27 times the distance between the Earth and the moon (stock image).

The grave has been found in the Scottish village of Drumnadrochit in the same area a stone-lined grave was found two years ago. Researchers also found a Beaker pot with simple incised decoration.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge discovered eggs from two species of parasitic worm – whipworm and roundworm - in soil from prehistoric burials on the Greek island of Kea.

The 3-2 ruling sets up a court fight over a move that opponents fear will recast the digital landscape. An FCC official told DailyMail.com that a bomb threat was phoned in, briefly clearing the room.

NASA has discovered eighth planet in distant star system

Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the new discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope analysed by Google's AI. Although the solar system, Kepler 90, is not new, the eighth planet, Kepler 90i (circled and bottom right), is. The newly-discovered Kepler-90i – a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days – was found using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence in which computers 'learn.' The main image shows the Kepler 90 system in its entirety.

Hackers likely working for a nation-state invaded the safety system of a critical infrastructure facility and halted operations, according to cyber investigators.

The helicopters will initially replace resupply convoys of trucks bringing fuel, food, water, ammunition and medical supplies to the front lines, officials hope.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that keeping an equal distance between the car in front and behind could help rid the world of 'phantom' snarl ups brought on by bad driving habits.

Amazon.com will start selling Google Chromecast and Apple TV, which compete against its Fire TV, on its online store, an Amazon spokeswoman told Reuters on Thursday.

Take a ride to space and back with Blue Origin’s test flight mannequin: Dizzying footage takes you INSIDE Jeff Bezos' capsule that could take tourists into orbit next year

Mannequin Skywalker was launched aboard New Shepard, a prototype rocket being developed by the firm, during the test flight launched from Blue Origin's West Texas Launch Site. Viewers can watch out of the window as the vessel blasts off the launch pad before rapidly ascending, with the ground below quickly giving way to the blue hues of the upper atmosphere. The craft then begins to descend, with mountains and plains below rising into view, before the craft makes a firm landing.

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2012 file photo Felix Baumgartner of Austria gestures prior to speaking with the media after successfully jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height of just over 128,000 feet above the Earth's surface in Roswell, N.M. Scientists say they've figured out why an Austrian who became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound fell faster than the drag of his body should have allowed. In a paper published Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017 by the journal PLOS One, researchers from Munich's Technical University said irregular shapes appear to reduce the aerodynamic drag that increases as objects near the sound barrier. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

Munich researchers say his protective suit and backpack gave him a very irregular shape, which appears to reduce the aerodynamic drag that increases as objects near the sound barrier.

Researchers at the VCU School of Engineering researchers discovered that radiation alone does not have an effect on muscle loss - but, it does amplify the negative effects on the bones.

Researchers from the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, Austria discovered that mice alter their bird-like vocalizations depending on who they’re communicating with.

A team of geologists setting out to study volcanic rocks on Scotland's Isle of Skye instead discovered evidence of a 60 million-year-old meteorite impact.

The company reportedly has just six months of working capital left, despite Sprint purchasing a 33 per cent stake in Tidal at the start of the year, which was supposed to last 12 to 18 months.

Speaking at Web Summit in Lisbon, Bryan Johnson founder of Kernel a start-up developing brain microchips, said unlocking the mind is the 'greatest thing' humanity can achieve (stock image).

A glimpse into the future? Fascinating visualisation shows how Greenland would look without its ice sheet

Made from decades of survey data, an international team of researchers have found if all the ice on Greenland melted it would raise sea levels by 24 feet (7.4 metres). The visualisation (pictured) shows the shape of the bedrock and surrounding seafloor, revealing how glaciers draining from the Greenland Ice Sheet will contribute to future sea-level rise. The highest peaks are coloured in red while the lowest-lying land is coloured green. Sea-level is coloured in blue. Scientists looked at Lake Tasersiaq (inset) where water is opaque due to glacial sediments. The authors found an abrupt 80 per cent increase in runoff occurring between 1976 to 2002 and 2003 to 2014.

Bloomberg says the speakers will have a 'strong focus on audio quality and the management of connected home appliances such as lights and locks.'

Michelle Sconce Massaquoi, a microbiologist at the University of Oregon, breaks down the classic mistakes we all make, and reveals tips to ensure a good hand-clean.

Lens Studio is a free global desktop app for Mac and Windows with guides and tools to help mould your augmented reality creations.

Cyber Command wants to sow confusion among enemies by striking networks

US Army will soon send teams of cyber warriors to the battlefield, officials said Wednesday, as the military increasingly looks to take the offensive against enemy computer networks.

The Switchblade has been designed by Oregon-based Samson Motors, and can cruise at an altitude of 13,000 feet and at a speed of 200mph (320km/h)

By Stephen NellisDec 14 (Reuters) - Andrew Ng, co-founder of some of Alphabet Inc-owned Google's most prominent artificial intelligence projects, on...

The shower produces shooting stars that are easy to spot from all over the world. It happens when the Earth crosses paths with a trail of rocky debris left behind by an asteroid known as 3200 Phaethon.

Nasa astronaut Randy Bresnik is helped from the capsule in Kazakhstan (Dimitry Lovetsky/AP)

A Soyuz capsule containing Nasa’s Randy Bresnik, Russia’s Sergey Ryazanskiy and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency landed on schedule at 2:37pm on the Kazakhstan steppes .

Aztec map gives insight into Mexican life in the 1500s

The map (pictured) covers an area between Mexico City and Puebla where a family identified as 'de Leon' who descended from a major political leader known as Lord-11 Quetzalecatzin. This fascinating manuscript is one of the most important indigenous documents from the Americas to be made available in the last few years. The Mesoamerican manuscript is known as the Codex Quetzalecatzin, according to John Hessler, curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress.

Dr Albert Parker and Dr Clifford Ollier, researchers at the University of Western Australia, are questioning measurements made by the Permanent Service of Mean Sea Level (PSMSL).

The World Inequality Report draws on the work of over 100 researchers from more than 70 countries, including French economist, Thomas Piketty.

Researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, built on previous studies linking such radiation to genetic damage that can cause poor human health.

Museum collections (pictured, the Natural History Museum in London) are dominated by male animals with their flashy antlers and feathers, leaving females in the minority.

Researchers from Texas A&M; University claim attempting to resist temptation early in the day means we're far more likely to lack self-control at night - an effect known as 'ego-depletion'.

Researchers from Mount Royal University and the University of Western Ontario in Canada looked at the effect of watching porn on how men see women (stock image).

Noah Dinkin, chief executive of email provider Stensul, raised the alarm after visiting one of Starbuck's franchises in Buenos Aires which had been hijacked to mine cryptocurrency.

The impressive ship, called Caronte, was made by Italian company Lazzarini Design Studio and has three bedrooms, six extra sub cabins below, its own swimming pool and gym.

Snap of dormouse among winners at Comedy Wildlife Awards

A hilarious photograph of an apparently delighted dormouse perched atop a flower (top left) has won at the 2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. The adorable snap, which shows the cute rodent climbing up a yarrow flower in the Italian mountains, won the Creatures of the Land category. The photography competition aims to raise awareness of conservation through comedy - and received more than 3,500 entries from 86 countries. Its winners, judged by the likes of TV presenter Kate Humble and comedian Hugh Dennis, were announced last night. They included shots of a couple of randy bears enjoying a moonlit close encounter on a hill in Romania (bottom left), a couple of mudskippers looking gobsmacked in the mud (top right), and a seal looking shocked (bottom right).

To create their glowing plants, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned to an enzyme called luciferase, used by fireflies to create their characteristic fluorescent glow.

Experts at Top10VPN UK said it was 'shockingly simple' to take control of any toy with a Wi-fi of Bluetooth connection, to access its data and tap into its camera or microphone.

New research conducted by Sydney Wine Academy and Taylors Wines has found that we've actually been drinking red wine wrong for the entirety of our lives. So how should you drink it?

An expert from the London-based Royal College of psychiatrists claims that women may be happier than men above the age of 85 because more people are widowed by then (stock).

Researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics in Atlanta build on past research that found gay or bisexual people are more likely to suffer from insomnia due to severe psychological stress.

Children who routinely eat their meals together with their family are more likely to experience long-term physical and mental health benefits, a new Canadian study shows.

Dr Stuart Flint, a psychologist at Leeds Beckett University, believes it is premature to call the trendy gadgets a 'healthier alternative' to traditional cigarettes.

Wine glasses in Britain have doubled in size since the 1990s, and researchers at Cambridge University think it could be making people drink more.

Peruvian queen's face reconstructed after 1,200 years

The so-called 'Huarmey Queen' was buried at the 1,200-year-old 'Temple of the Dead' at the El Castillo de Huarmey site, a four-hour drive north of the Peruvian capital Lima. Experts have now spent 220 hours hand-crafting the features of the wealthy Noblewoman (right image), who was at least 60 years old when she died, using a 3D-printed cast of her skull and data on her bone and muscle structure (left image). Archaeologists uncovered the Queen's tomb in 2012 alongside the remains of 57 female aristocrats from the Wari culture (bottom inset), an ancient people that ruled the region centuries before the famous Incas. Scientists say the Huarmey Queen was buried in particular splendour, with her body kept in a private chamber surrounded by jewellery and other luxuries, including gold ear flares, a copper ceremonial axe, and a silver goblet. Now experts have recreated the woman's face to try and understand more about the life of the Noblewoman, who researchers suggest earned her lavish burial as a master craftswoman.

NASA says the Geminids are one of the best and most reliable meteor showers. At its peak, 120 meteors can be seen per hour under perfect conditions.

Microsoft hopes Bing's new AI features will mean users trust is rather than having to work out if results are true.

A study led by physicist at the University of New South Wales outlines how powerful laser bursts could be used to fuse hydrogen and boron, which converts directly to electricity.

Researchers from the University of Otago asked Apple's Siri and Google Assistant to answer questions and perform tasks about sexual health (stock image).

A lack of water caused California's Sierra Nevada mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 mm) in height during the drought years from October 2011 to October 2015, a NASA study has revealed.

Many elements of holiday decor appeal to our senses in ways that mimic our evolutionary sense of safety, comfort and closeness, and a Chicago design psychologist explains how.

The breakthrough was made by an international team of researchers, including scientists from the University of Michigan and University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Finisar will use the money to reopen a 700,000-square-foot plant in Sherman, Texas to ramp up production of laser chips called vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, or VCSELs.

Secret of the Great Pyramid of Giza's hidden chamber is set to be revealed by an inflatable robotic blimp that will explore Egypt's 4,500-year-old monument

Egypt's mysterious Great Pyramid of Giza, bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt, is set to be explored by a floating drone that inflates inside of ancient structures before flying like a blimp to explore inaccessible areas. The device enters rooms and chambers through a 3.5-centimetre hole drilled through a wall by researchers outside (top left image). It is made up of two robots, a tubular machine equipped with a high definition camera (centre left) and a probe that explores the structure via a small, inflatable blimp (bottom left). Last month, a mysterious 30-metre (100 ft) void (in red in right mage) nestled above the pyramid's Grand Gallery deep within the monument was discovered by an international team of researchers.

Recent research found that Greenland sharks can live upwards of 300 years. But, they're slow-moving, plagued by parasites and on rare occasions, have been known to eat rotting polar bear carcasses.

Researchers from the University of Bonn discovered the skeleton of the new species buried in a clay pit near the village of Bonenburg, Germany.

SpaceX has revealed it is pushing back the flight of a recycled Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule a third time, after finding particles in the fuel system. If successful, it will be a historic first.

Jay Ayoub was pumping concrete on a property in Oyster Bay, south of Sydney on Wednesday when the spider, believed to be an Australian tarantula, crawled onto his shoulder.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, an Amazon Echo Dot is displayed during a program announcing several new Amazon products by the company, in Seattle. A test by an AP reporter finds that the virtual assistant Alexa inside the Echo Dot is good at reordering stuff bought previously on Amazon. But asking it to order new items was trickier, and it's definitely not for browsing. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Alexa, the assistant inside Amazon's smart speakers and other gadgets, is really good at reordering stuff you've already bought on Amazon.But asking it to order new items is much trickier.

During the 41st day of the relay in the lead-up to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, a humanoid robot carried the torch.

Scientists led by Cornell University have found a way to turn waste products from yogurt production into a raw material for biofuel and livestock feed additives (stock image).

Researchers from the University of Bristol have found that changes in the chemistry of magma could allow them to predict how explosive a volcanic eruption will be.

NASA reveals strange 'distorted' image of Martian surface

An image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has offered a stunning new look at Mars’ northern Meridiani Planum, where swirling deposits appear as though they’ve been slashed by massive faults. The amazing new view shows the different effects of fault activity on the Martian surface, giving rise to everything from clean breaks to ‘stretched out’ distortions. This is likely an indication that the faults formed at different times, when the layers were at various stages of hardening.

Peter Kalmus took aim at some of the 25,000 scientists who flew to New Orleans for the annual American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting, the world's largest Earth and space science meeting.

T-Mobile president and CEO John Legere says the wireless group's new pay TV service in the US will disrupt a sector dominated by a handful of near monopolies

US wireless carrier T-Mobile said Wednesday it would launch a pay TV service in 2018, aiming to disrupt the dominant cable and satellite providers. The firm has acquired startup Layer3 TV.

Once Tokyo startup Ispace's lunar craft has touched down on the moon, the firm will offer investors the chance to project a small billboard onto the moon's surface.

Google's move to open a Beijing office focused on fundamental research is an indication of China's AI talent

Google says it will open a new artificial intelligence research centre in Beijing, tapping China's talent pool in the promising technology despite the US search giant's exclusion from the country's internet.

Hundreds of devout Catholics have flocked to Nobsa, Colombia, to see what has been called an apparition of the Virgin Mary in the form of algae growing where water leaks out of a pipe.

Dressed in revealing clothing, the erotic assistant was in beta testing for a virtual reality headset when she was pulled by iQiyi, the streaming unit of Beijing-based company Baidu.

Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic downpour, which lashed Houston in August, was made 15 per cent more intense by global warming, a new study by the World Weather Attribution found.

Google's 2017 trend lists are based on search terms that had a spike in traffic in 2017 compared to 2016. These lists can be broken down based on country, or a global list is also available.

Strange tumbling motion of cigar-shaped interstellar 'comet' Oumuamua suggests it’s an alien probe with BROKEN engines, says leading astronomer

Last month, a mysterious cigar-shaped asteroid sailed past Earth, marking the first time an interstellar object has been seen in the solar system. And one esteemed scientist believes that the asteroid, called Oumuamua, could be a probe sent by an extraterrestrial civilisation. Dr Jason Wright, from Penn State University, suggests that an alien spacecraft whose engines have failed would move in exactly the same way as the interstellar asteroid.

Mafia bosses such as 'Al Capone' earned extra as adults if they stayed in school longer, a new study by the University of Essex has found.

This illustration provided by NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft. The probe whipped past Pluto in 2015 and is headed to 2014 MU69 for an attempted 2019 flyby of the tiny, icy world on the edge of the solar system. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP)

Nasa experts based at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, say they are unsure how many rocks they will find when they close in on New Horizons' latest target 'MU69'.

A group of 500 people were asked to pick the more attractive twin out of a smoker and a non-smoker by academics from Bristol University. Both sexes picked the non-smoker as more attractive.

The UN has urged nations worldwide to improve the way they recycle the often hazardous rubbish, which can leak hazardous chemicals like lead and cadmium into soil, water and food.

It is hoped that the 'snoozeliners', created by mattress firm Simba, will begin operating next year and will run eight routes in cities including London, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham.

Former Facebook execs and early investors Sean Parker (top), Chamath Palihapitiya (main) and Roger McNamee (bottom inset) all spoke out recently to condemn the platform and others.

As scheduled, the country's most northern regions and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic switched to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) this morning.

Instead of difficult Latin names like Canis Major and Ursa Minor, a Birmingham team has now drawn up new constellations called Paddington, Bolt and Potter.

The force was too strong! Rocket powered LEGO Star Wars Destroyer made up of 3,152 pieces is launched into a wall at 67mph

Brothers David and Henrik Windestal from Sweden built a Super Star Destroyer and then blasted it against a wall so that the Star Wars ship exploded into thousands of pieces.As expected the LEGO ship very rapidly dissembles which the footage shows happen again and again from different angles and speeds.

A San Francisco non-profit organisation has been using robot security guards to shoo homeless people away from it's offices in the city's gentrifying Mission neighbourhood.

Professor James Lin, an expert in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, suggests that microwaves produced the sounds.

Scientists led by Stephen Hawking are using scanners to discover if a huge, cigar-shaped space object hurtling through our solar system was sent by an alien civilisation, writes JOHN NAISH.

A group of 160 women were asked to rank shirtless men and give them an attractiveness rating by the Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.

Twitter users are going wild for the funny chapter by Botnik Studios, in which Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the Death Eaters say and do very odd things.

Exposure to tiny particles of air pollution may damage the developing brains of teens in ways that make them more likely to act out growing up, a new study from the University of Southern California says.

The cloud, which resembled an erupting volcano or a nuclear bomb, was seen above the San Ynez Mountains of western Ventura County in the Los Padres National Forest, California.

PepsiCo's 100 trucks add to orders by more than a dozen companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc, fleet operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc, and foodservice distribution company Sysco Corp.

Soup bowls dating back 3,100 years uncovered in China

Experts from the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology in China made the discovery in Baoji City, where 57 tombs have been found since excavations began in 2012. Along with other relics found at the site, dubbed Tomb M4 (top left), the soup bowls (pictured clockwise top right to bottom left) are believed to behave been part of the spoils of war, taken from the rival Shang dynasty. Experts believe many of the vessels were used in religious or burial rituals, rather than for eating. Their quality suggests the person buried inside the tomb was of noble status.

The maps show that the majority of remaining wilderness is in the deserts of Central Australia, the Amazon rainforest, the Tibetan plateau, and the forests of Canada and Russia.

It comes just months after the company was stripped of its permit in the capital by Transport for London which claimed the global taxi app was not 'fit and proper'.

The new video from ACS Reactions explores the so-called ‘cilantroversy’ that causes people to be so divided on the common herb. Scientists say it may be because of a genetic variation.

The tool, created by Nottingham-based Web Blinds, asks users to watch a cannon, then click as soon as they see an animated Father Christmas fired into the air above a snowy scene.

The new feature will allow users to compose a series of separate Tweets using a new 'plus' button. The firm is rolling out these updates to everyone on iOS, Android, and Twitter.com 'in the coming weeks'.

The Facebook owned app, based in Menlo Park, has released the new feature in an effort to make posts on the site more easy to discover by bringing up popular posts with a similar theme in your feed.

As a developmental scientist, Kristen Dunfield of Concordia University spends most of her time researching children's trust, how trust develops and what happens when it's broken.

The new 'Feed' tab shows all of their posts on Instagram, recent photos uploaded to Tinder and even what they are listening to on Spotify.

Serval cat spotted on the savanna in Kenya's Masai Mara

The African serval cat is known to be highly skilled when it comes to slipping through the tall grass of the African savanna unnoticed as it sneaks up on its pray. This particular serval cat managed to make it nigh-on impossible to spot during a recent jaunt on the Masai Mara in Kenya. A keen eye might be able to see it hiding in this photograph, taken by  German wildlife photographer Ingo Gerlach, 64, during a recent trip to the game reserve.

The mission, initially planned for today, will launch both a previously flown rocket and spacecraft for the first time. SpaceX revealed it's now targeting Wed to allow for pre-launch checks.

A tricky new quiz shared by Playbuzz, which was designed for high school students, puts your spelling abilities to the test with 19 sentences - each missing a commonly misspelled word.

Lyft is moving outside the United States as Uber faces investigations by governments around the world over its cover up of a massive 2016 data breach.

The company revealed the product earlier this year as a stopgap to a new version of its Mac Pro line, which it said would be unveiled 'next year'. It says the new iMac Pro is  'for pro users.

In an article for The Conversation, Professor Subhash Kak from Oklahoma State University explains the possible consequences if artificial intelligence gains consciousness.

Golden eagles released near Edinburgh are set to be rejuvenate the population of the majestic bird in northern England, where it has recently gone extinct.

Researchers from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada recreated the conditions of outer space in the lab and found small organic molecules can form under these conditions.

FILE - In an Aug, 16, 2005 file photo, an iceberg melts in Kulusuk, Greenland near the arctic circle. A new report finds permafrost in the Arctic is thawing faster than ever before. The annual report card released Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, also finds water is warming and sea ice is melting at the fastest pace in 1,500 years at the top of the world. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)

The annual report card also finds water is warming and sea ice is melting at the fastest pace in 1,500 years at the top of the world. The NOAA says Earth's northern region has entered a "new normal".

Ceres' bright spots could be sign of geologic activity

Mysterious bright spots dotting the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres have baffled scientists since they were first spotted two years ago. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured the first images of two distinctly reflective areas in 2015 – and in the time since, scientists have detected hundreds more. A new study has found that the bright spots can be divided into four different categories, offering evidence that the dwarf planet may not be a ‘dead world’ after all; instead, the experts say it could still be experiencing geologic activity. Main image: A simulation of the bright areas of Occator Crater, Cerealia Facula in the center and Vinalia Faculae to the side. Top left, Ceres' 21-mile-wide Haulani Crater shows evidence of landslides from its crater rim, while Ahuna Mons (bottom left) is the only case in which the bright material on Ceres is not affiliated with an impact crater.

Edward S Curtis spent more than 20 years documenting American Indian culture including the Navajo Night Chant, a nine-day healing ritual presided over by figures in masks.

The fossilised remains were discovered in Hampden Beach, Otago, by researchers from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt.

Oregon-based company Nike have filed a patent for a new AR headset which would enable golfers to get real-time stats about their game.

Dr Siobhan Banks and Crystal Grant, a PhD student, who are both based at the University of South Australia, claim that getting a good sleep can be 'tough'.

The wildly popular Toy Freaks channel (pictured) was making up to $1.1 million (£820,000) per month before it was deleted in November by San Bruno-based company YouTube.

The UK Gambling Commission, based in Birmingham, has said it is 'alarmed' at the new ways that young peoples and children are finding to gamble.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota found emoticons are just as reliable as lengthy questionnaires in assessing cancer sufferers' moods but in a 'universal' language.

Researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia found that improvements in palliative care have made death more comfortable. But not everyone who needs the care, receives it.

Mystery as THOUSANDS of ice balls wash up on Russian coast 

These strange ice balls have washed up on the coast of the Gulf of Finland in Russia, leading to speculation about what might have caused them, with one expert putting it down to oil pollution. Others believe they are rolled together by the waves. The uniformly sized ice-balls are about seven inches in diameter and sit eerily on the frozen water.

The unsettling video, created by Reddit user deepfakes, features a woman who takes on the rough likeness of Gal Gadot, with the actor’s face overlaid on another person’s head.

Archaeologists from the Australian National University uncovered the fish-hooks in a pit on Alor Island, which are believed to be the world's oldest hooks placed in a burial ritual.

The furore emerged after a thread was posted on Twitter showing an Alexa user asking the Seattle based firm's female voiced assistant about her thoughts on a range of divisive topics.

A number of perverts from around the world have written on Twitter that they are 'non-offending' and 'non-contact' paedophiles and have openly discussed their attraction to young children.

Researchers at University of California and University of Rome studied people aged between 91 and 101 and found their mental health was better than their younger family members.

Parts of Australia are still 'totally radioactive', more than 60 years after Hiroshima-sized nuclear tests, according to a local fallout survivor.

An ominous ash cloud rising above the Etna volcano on Sicily, lighting strikes over a flock of cranes in Nebraska, US and were some of the winners of the 2017 Siena Awards.

Sheffiled Hallam University, which serves toast to revellers after nights out, has prompted a furious debate after asking people to comment on whether how they should slice the snack.

Map reveals how green America really is

If you live in a bustling city, it can be easy to forget the beauty of nature that’s often just a short ride away. In a stunning new map, geographer and GIS analyst Robert Szucs has plotted the sprawling forests that blanket the continental United States. The map highlights the striking difference between the landscape of the coasts and the central US, where what appears to be a massive blank space reveals land that is dominated by deserts and plains instead of trees.

Photographer Svetlana Kuzina has recorded extraordinary haunting 'alien like' sounds while walking on the frozen surface of a Siberian lake, she says are reminiscent of whales 'singing'.

The survey of 600 people by IT consultancy EPC Group in Houston also found that nearly a quarter of people use the same password for every site they are signed up to.

Wet wipes are responsible for more than 90 per cent of sewage blockages, according to a new study. The wipes, often sold as baby products, are being flushed down toilets into the sewers.

Plastic rubbish is posing a bigger risk to turtles than oil spills, the study said – with the greatest impact on hatchlings and young turtles.

University College London scientists gave 46 patients an experimental drug. They discovered the pill lowered their levels of toxic proteins in the brain - which is responsible for the disease.

Nasa scientists will be joined by a senior Google AI engineer and an expert from the University of Texas at Austin to reveal the Kepler telescope's latest planet candidate results.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia found augmented reality encourages gamers to interact with others, boosting the game's success chances.

Google has launched three new apps globally this week. Storyboard is available on Android, Selfissimo! is available on Android and iOS and Scrubbies is available on iOS.

100m-yr-old tick found grasping dinosaur feather in amber

The amber specimens, which come from a private collection that has never before been studied before, were sourced close to the village of Maingkhwan in northern Myanmar. Fossils of these parasitic, blood-sucking creatures still attached to the remains of their host (right and bottom left images) are extremely rare, and the new find is the oldest known to date. Locked in time during the mid-Cretaceous period, the arachnids form the first direct fossil evidence that ticks preyed on dinosaurs (artist's impression top left). Scientists have named one of the newly-found ancient species 'Dracula's terrible tick' after finding one particularly bloated specimen that was so swollen with blood that it was eight times the size of its companions.

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.

Fibre optic cables could be laid along England’s busiest motorways to beam live travel information to car dashboards in the future.

NHSquicker has been launched by the Health and Care IMPACT Network, a collaboration between the NHS across Devon and Cornwall and academics from the University of Exeter.

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.

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.

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.

Technicolour waters in Cambridgeshire appear to have been caused by a toxic leak from a local business, an investigation has revealed.

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.

The craft has been developed by BAE Systems, in conjunction with the University of Manchester, who has announced the successful completion of the first phase of flight trials.

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.

The company behind the technology, Shanghai-based Yitu Technology, said Dragonfly Eye scans images from the country's national database. It is currently being used in Shanghai.

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.

iPhone maker Apple prevailed in the US Supreme Court a $120 million patent suit against Samsung, one of several legal battles between the tech giants

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.

Stunning footage of peccaries in Arizona captured what appears to be mourning, as a herd repeatedly visited the body of a dead peccary, sniffing it, nuzzling it, and protecting it.

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.

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

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

Sound engineers from San Francisco-based firm Charles M. Salter Associates, explored the mechanism of exploding eggs as part of expert witness testimony (stock image).

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.

Known as a 'moonbow', the hypnotic phenomenon was captured from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides by a half American half Italian photographer Guiseppe Petricca.

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 images and video were created by researchers from Durham University, using the skull of the skeleton that was found in Durham in 2013.

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.

Stunning photos show indigenous Kamaiurá people diving underwater and swimming under a waterfall in the Amazonian basin in a remote part of Brazil.

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.

Launching from Blue Origin's West Texas Launch Site yesterday, the test featured the latest version of the firm's reusable New Shepard rocket, its first flight in 14 months.

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.

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.

The tombs were found across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp. However, she had only reached the entrance gate and 'never entered'.

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.

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.

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 asteroid, named 2017 VL2, was just 73,000 miles (117,480 km) from our planet. It has now emerged that experts at Washington D.C.-based Nasa did not find out about it until a day later.

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 incredible video was created using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over the Great Red Spot in July 2017, using its instruments to penetrate well below the clouds.

Randy Bresnik, a Nasa astronaut from Kentucky, filmed the incredible footage while the space station was 250 miles above Earth.

The clip, captured at Martin Mere nature reserve in Tarlscough, Lancashire, shows a mesmerising starling murmuration being rudely interrupted by incoming geese.

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.

The first ever underwater images of a sunken Navy warship which is believed to have fired America’s first shot of World War Two were revealed on Wednesday.

Construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, in southern France has been dogged by delays and a surge in costs to about $23.7bn.

Researchers at the University of Oxford radiocarbon tested the relic, long though to belong to St Nicholas, and found it dates from the correct historical period.

       

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British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.

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British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.

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