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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.

Most mainstream car maker currently looking to ramp-up driverless car development in preparation for the coming years, but they may find the British market the most difficult to crack.

If Elon Musk had peered out of his California office window last week he might have caught a glimpse of the new electric car that's set to challenge his Tesla brand's market dominance.

It seems this little plastic ship was discarded in a town or city close to Britain’s east coast, for eventually — perhaps via a gutter or stream — it found its way into the North Sea.

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 International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to fly over the UK at around 4:40 pm GMT (11:40am ET) on December 19, and will appear as a bright streak in the night sky.

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.

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.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of 'large scale engineering' at the Roman port of Lechaion, on the Corinthian Gulf, Greece.

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.

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

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

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.

More than 120 clips of newly declassified nuclear tests that took place across the US have so far been posted to YouTube to immortalise the historic footage online.

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.

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.