The European Space Agency's Mars Express has returned an incredible new series of images showing the Korolev crater, a 50 mile (82 km) wide feature in in the northern lowlands of Mars. Its center contains a mound of water ice some 1.1 miles thick all year round. This ever-icy presence is due to a phenomenon known as a ‘cold trap’ caused by the crater’s floor lying two kilometres vertically beneath its rim. Inset, a
NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars. New images (pictured) from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, after it was lifted onto the surface by the lander's robotic arm. It will record the waves traveling through the interior structure of the planet, and could help explain mysterious 'marsquakes' scientists believe occur regularly.
NEW The collaboration between NASA and the Cornell Lab or Ornithology has made for unprecedented visualization of birds’ habits across the continent.
NEW Mobilsicher reviewed the Android version of many apps and found they were collecting data like users' religious affiliation, dating profiles and healthcare data and sharing it with Facebook.
The Rice University team has so far made an array of shapes with their morphing material, including a face, a Lego block, and a rose. It could lead to biomedical applications.
Kimchi's unique flavor is owed to fermentation, which involves 'friendly microbes' that bring out its trademark tang. A new report breaks down the science behind why this occurs.
The criminal who is illegally flying a drone at Gatwick Airport (top right) is being hunted by police and military personnel (left) using cutting-edge technology, including lasers, snipers, triangulation and jammers. The Army has been working on a 'Drone Dome' or 'kill-jammer' - which can 'soft kill' a drone by knocking out its communications or a 'hard kill' by shooting it down with a laser from up to two miles away - and may use this prototypical technology. It remains unknown when the debacle that has left hundreds of travellers stranded (bottom right) will end and normal service will be resumed.
Star gazers all over the UK will be able to spot meteors along with a full moon tomorrow night when the astronomical phenomenon marks the longest night of the year.
A surprising glitch meant an Alexa user in Germany was able to access some 1,700 voice recordings from a stranger. Amazon blamed the situation on 'a human error' by the company.
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, an international team has discovered a way to ‘see’ the invisible substance that makes up nearly a third of our universe.
Researchers used the amoebas ability to change its shape and dislike of light to 'program' it to solve a common puzzle
Three astronauts returned to Earth Thursday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station. The astronauts landed safely in a descent capsule in Kazakhstan yesterday. Sergey Prokopyev, pictured right, landed safely in the capsule, top right and inset, which had been charred by the fiery trip through the atmosphere. The cosmonauts were then given medical examinations, bottom right.
Experts say there is not much you can do about information already held by site. However, you can find out what the company has on you, and take steps to limit how much more it can gather.
In its blog, Facebook said it gave companies like Amazon, Spotify and Netflix the ability to read, write and delete access to millions of its users' private messages with the data sharing.
NEW California researchers have revealed a tiny tic-tac-toe game that uses DNA. The game shows off a major breakthrough in nanotechnology, as it uses a dynamic system to reshape tiny tiles of DNA.
Microsoft is urging users to update to the latest version of Internet Explorer after it discovered a serious flaw. It allowed them to easily takeover your PC by executing some malicious code.
The cancelled launch of the Delta IV Heavy rocket in Southern California left residents scrabbling for an explanation to explain the bizarre cloud formation.
Researchers have discovered a unique 'shimmering' planet they say could be a new class of exoplanet. Officially known as HD219134 b. it is 21 light years away from us in the constellation Cassiopeia. Astronomers say unlike Earth, it most likely does not have a massive core of iron, but is rich in calcium and aluminium which makes it incredibly rich in gemstones.
To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, researchers at the University of Guelph are putting 16 breeds through physical fitness and behavioral tests.
The amber was found in Lebanon and all four specimens were found in the same piece. Pieces of eggshell were also found next to the animals which are roughly the size of a pinhead.
Chinese scientists are hunting for the human soul and are building a cutting edge MRI machine to find it. Scientists say the project 'will revolutionise brain studies'.
To keep track of their animals in Lapland, Northern Finland's vast and remote snow-covered forests, reindeer herders are turning to technology by fitting them with internet-connected collars.
The relaunch is a major reduction from Uber's previous self-driving operations. The cars will not operate at night or in wet weather and will not exceed speeds of 25 miles per hour.
Scientists now think the cause of the enormous mass of water 125,000 years ago was the West Antarctic ice sheet, (pictured) which flooded huge swathes of what is now dry land.
Andy Gregg, of Phoenix, was startled when he heard a voice coming from his Nest camera. The voice said they were a researching from the Anonymous group in Calgary.
Results from two American studies found people's happiness did not decline - or declined much slower - if they kept giving presents to others, compared with when they repeatedly received the same gifts.
Researchers have revealed astonishing evidence of a ferocious mid air battle between a shark and a pterosaur. USC researchers studying bones at the L.A. County Natural History Museum, were shocked to find a fossil from the fearsome flying reptile that had a shark tooth lodged in it (top and bottom left). They believe the find is the result of a fearsome shark six feet long leaping into the air to try and take down the much larger pterosaur with a wingspan of 18 feet.
Some of the new iPad Pros have a slight bend in their aluminum chassis, which Apple says is a normal side effect of the manufacturing process and shouldn't impact its performance.
Jamming and astrophysics go hand-in-hand for Queen lead guitarist Brian May, who announced Wednesday he is releasing a musical tribute to a far-flung NASA spacecraft that is about to make history.
Truecaller reported 17.7 billion spam calls were received by users globally between January and October of this year, which is a stark increase from the 5.5 billion spam calls users received last year.
NASA astrophysicists have successfully created the sugar 2-deoxyribose – or, the ‘D’ in DNA – in the conditions of interstellar space. Findings suggest the ingredients may be common in the universe.
Snapchat’s latest lens works when users hold their smartphone up to the iconic London landmark, revealing a restored virtual Elizabeth Tower complete with real-time bongs.
Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to blast off today after two cancelled launches earlier this week, but was forced to cancel again due to adverse weather conditions.
Using 30C 'eco' settings on washing machines could be helping to spread diseases. The NHS recommends a 60C (140F) setting to kill bacteria when washing underwear towels and linens.
The Wildlife Trusts charity claims the £56million rail line is ‘highly likely’ to lead to the Willow tit's extinction in its South Yorkshire stronghold. Its numbers have fallen by 94 per cent since the Seventies.
The guide, created by analyst Robert Szucs, 31, from Birmingham, shows every river basin represented by a different colour, which is contrasted with a dark, black background. He mapped the entire world, (top right) - including Great Britain (left) and the United States (bottom right). Mr Szucs collects his data with painstaking patience, assembling information from a variety of government and non-government agencies. The Hungarian native has no previous artistic background but says he was inspired by the 'boring nature' of textbooks. He has created a system whereby the thicker lines represent higher stream orders. It's a long process but Robert is adamant it's worth it.
Facebook shares plummeted more than 7% today as the social media giant continued to feel the heat from a string of bad news, wiping $28 billion off its market cap in the process.
Authorities in Pennsylvania have given Uber the green light to resume testing self-driving cars, the ride-sharing giant said, after a fatal crash in Arizona prompted a pause.
NASA discovered the breach on October 23rd and the servers that were targeted contained personal information from an unknown number of current and former NASA employees.
A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has found that short-finned pilot whales living off the coast of Hawai'i have their own sorts of vocal dialects.
A recent psychological explanation is the idea that our evolution has created a 'god-shaped hole' or has given us a metaphorical 'god engine' which can drive us to believe in a deity.
Witnesses shared pictures of an unidentified object appearing in the night sky of Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province at about 4.20am local time on Tuesday.
A new New York Times expose has revealed that Facebook granted access to hundreds of millions of users' data to 150 companies.
The attorney general in Washington DC, Karl Racine, filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Wednesday for allowing Cambridge Analytica to improperly access data before the 2016 election.
Elon Musk has taken the wraps off the Boring Company's first Los Angeles test tunnel with great fanfare. Many riders complained of a 'surprisingly bumpy' journey, as each car is equipped with 'tracking wheels' that help it travel along concrete sections meant to help support the vehicle.
Cambridge researchers working on the project say the robot has a limited movement compared to a human hand but were surprised by the wide range it was still capable of.
The world's oldest dinosaur was identified after it was discovered in Italy in 1996. Researchers reassembled the bones to find that it was still growing, making its size even more remarkable.
After conducting three weeks of searches for potential hazards, NASA has given the green light for New Horizons to fly on a path that will bring it just 2,200 miles (3,500 km) of Ultima Thule.
Researchers from the University of Wyoming in the US carried out the investigation into olfactory sensory receptors in mice, those relating to sense of smell.
Research carried out by four US universities including Kenyon College in Ohio. A study of more than 1,300 adults showed just how much the social networking website was worth to youngsters.
Scientists from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia used the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii, to trace the relic cloud of gas.
A team of climate researchers found that there was never a significant pause in global warming. Dr James Risbey, of CSIRO in Australia says this could have impacted preventing action from happening.
Denver International Airport in Colorado launched the technology last week, which also aims to make the screening process more comfortable. It is pictured here at an airport in Germany.
Workers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are using a replica of the lander, named ForeSight, to test every command they send to the red planet. Engineers painstakingly recreated the landing area of craft from high resolution pictures it send back, using crushed rocks to simulate Martian sand.
Harvard University engineers and Rolls-Royce partnered to make the robot which they say could inspect complex machines in the future.
A team of scientists have reexamined the skeleton of the German Prince of Helmsdorf, who died 3,846 years ago, and found signs on his bones that he was murdered by an 'experienced warrior'.
Experts calculate the parasitic fungus at Crystal Creek in Michigan, US, covers an area the size of 75 rugby pitches, weighs more than 400 tons and is at least 2,500 years old (pictured: stock image).
China said that it opposed the 'weaponisation' of space today as it criticised U.S. President Donald Trump's orders to create a new command centre for controlling military space operations.
Elon Musk unveiled his Los Angeles underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take the first rides in the revolutionary underground tube.
SpaceX said an unusual reading on a rocket sensor caused it to stand down the launch, while Blue Origin blamed 'ground infrastructure issues'.
MicroCT scans of the 3.7 million year old Australopithecus fossil were used to reconstruct the brain's size and shape.
Researchers from Sussex University said women drop the pitch of their voice if they want to express 'sexual interest and intimacy' with a potential partner.
The remarkable structures (pictured are gravestones) were found in Carikoren Neigbourhood in the Egil district of Diyarbakir, Turkey on Tuesday when one of Dicle Dam's gates broke off following heavy rainfall. The dam, which opened in 1997, now provides drinking water for the city of Diyarbakir - one of the largest cities in southeastern Turkey with a population of around 930,000. Incredible images show remarkable structures hidden away underneath, including a Tomb of Elisha - a prophet in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Sue, the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, gets to show off its new lair this week at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Stunned researchers say the find means that global climate models may have to be rethought. The particles were 50 times bigger than scientists thought was possible to transport.
China's military is building a machine capable of simulating thermonuclear explosions on an unprecedented scale, similar to the US' 'Z machine', located in New Mexico (pictured).
Air filters don't keep small compounds at bay, according to scientists at University of Washington. Lab tests showed the modified ivy used such compounds in the air as food to grow.
Pietro Amitrano, the mayor of Pompeii, said he was in talks with Sardinia's civil protection authorities about a possible evacuation procedure
A new report has found that if users turn off location services, Facebook will still use their IP address, as well as their check-ins, to discern where they are and generated targeted ads.
The treatment, tested on rats at Texas A&M; University, would modify the patient's own skin cells. Stem cell treatment led to 70% fewer seizures, the researchers found.
The burgeoning crisis in plastic waste has won the accolade of 'international statistic of the year' after it was revealed that 90.5 per cent of plastic waste in the world has never been recycled
An alleged thief stole a NASA engineer's package, and he came up with an epic revenge by designing a fake Amazon box complete with GPS, a glitter bomb, a stink bomb and hidden cellphones to record their reaction. Mark Rober said a woman was caught on his home security camera walking up to his door and stealing a package off of his porch. When he brought the video to the police, they said it wasn't worth their time to investigate it, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. What he came up with was a package that, from all appearances, looked like an Apple HomePod with an Amazon sticker on it. However inside is actually a high-tech box with a cup filled with glitter, a trigger to release it, a fart spray that whirls up and emits a stench every 30-seconds once the package is opened, and four hidden cell phones capturing the would be thieves' reaction from every possible angle, regardless of where the box is opened from.
The 'remarkable' finding comes after red wolves were declared extinct in the wild in 1980.
EnviroBuild, a sustainable building materials company, paid $25,000 (£19,800) at an auction for the right - and decided to use it to draw attention to the US president's view on climate change.
SpaceX said its Falcon 9 rocket's onboard computer shut down the launch, while Blue Origin blamed 'a ground infrastructure issue'. Both were scheduled to blast off at around 9:30am.
Researchers observed how rival groups of bottlenose dolphins tended to avoid each other by using particular areas of water at different times.
A psychopath's pupils do not dilate when they look at distressing or sad scenes, researchers at Cardiff and Swansea Universities found.
Australian astronaut Andy Thomas has criticised Sir Richard Branson for taking tourists on 'dangerous' trips to the edge of space. Branson successfully launched his first test flight from California last week.
A group of students from Leicester University have found that it is possible that a house could be seen from space if it had 2,683 LED lights on the roof, according to a study.
A new species of dinosaur that lived 73-million years ago and is a relative of the triceratops has been found in Arizona.
Rachael Neal, 28, credits her waterproof iPhone 8 Plus for helping save her life as she and her friends were stranded in the open sea off the coast of remote Okinawa Island in Japan earlier this year.
The changes to the farm animals, such as pigs (pictured), comes through a process called gene-editing, which involves the alteration of an animal's DNA.
U.S. supermarket chain Kroger Co said on Tuesday it has started using unmanned autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries Scottsdale, Arizona
Environmentalists also criticised the move to end the export tariff, with Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist for Greenpeace UK, describing it as 'simply perverse'.
A total of 32,601 badgers were killed in 30 areas of England between September 3 and November 1 this year as part of the ongoing cull.
Researchers from the University of Washington tested how CO2 affects the salmon's sense of smells by placing different fish in tanks with three different pH levels to see how they reacted.
A scientist has called on all pet owners to start walking their cats on a leash if they are not able to leave the home. David Grimm, from Baltimore, has been walking his two cats for thirteen years.
Japanese startup Groove X, founded by an alumni of SoftBank Group Corp's robotics unit, unveiled its first creation on Tuesday - a companion robot designed to make users happy.
A Los Angeles shopping centre have now deployed a robot security guard to patrol the mall. The aim of the machines, manufactured by start-up Knightscope is to identify potential criminals.
The images (pictured) show the moment molten lava began to trickle down the side of Europe's most famous volcano, located in Sicily, which is a whopping 700,000-years-old and 24 miles wide. Each year, it produces enough lava to fill a 108-story skyscrapers, spewing tonnes of molten rock across the island of Sicily. Explosive activity continues at the eastern vent of the Southeast Crater. The craters of Bocca Nuova and Cratere di Nordest are also active.
The drones will offer 'round-the-clock protection of the perimeters' according the the arms makers.
Experts from Cardiff University looked at more than 21 million UK job adverts and found that less than one in five gave specific qualifications as a requirement for getting the position.
On Saturday, Teslarati spotted the Boring Company laying the final bricks on its Monty Python-style watchtower outside the offices of Musk's rocket company, SpaceX.
Jean Twenge, a professor of Psychology at San Diego State University in California offers her best tips on how parents can limit their children's screen time, especially for better sleep.
The social media platform said Monday a tool that will let users delete their browsing history on Facebook is still being developed, but that it won't launch until spring 2019 due to technical issues.
Twitter shares fell almost 7% after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers.
Stony Brook researchers have revealed that lunar dust is far more dangerous than previously thought, and could leave astronauts at high risk of developing lung cancer.
Hyundai has created a futuristic car that lets drivers unlock and start their car just by scanning their fingerprint. The system is set to debut in the new Santa Fe SUV in early 2019.
LG has not said how much the radical TV will cost. In 2016, the firm announced the world’s first 18-inch rollable display at CES in Las Vegas – and last year, showed off a 65inch version. 'The envisioned 65-inch TVs will retract automatically at the touch of a button like a garage door, the person said on condition of anonymity because it’s an internal matter,' wrote Bloomberg.
Google announced Monday it will spend more than $1billion to build a new office complex in New York City that will allow the internet search giant to double the number of people it employs there.
The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in the Northern District of California, claiming Apple misled consumers via false advertising meant to obscure the X, XS and XS Max's notch.
Aston Martin has vowed to 'create the ultimate expression of the internal combustion engine' before petrol and diesel is banned in 2040 - and we reveal what it sounds like.
Researchers from Made by AI trained a neural network by inputting one hundred Christmas tunes in the form of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) files.
Google has been forced to abandon its plan to launch a specialist Chinese search engine that censors results in line with the strict government.
Charles Darwin was intrigued as to why some species, such as the primrose, develop two different forms of flowers, and devoted a whole book the subject.
A new study, conducted by University College London, found that people with more radical beliefs tend to overestimate their certainty on incorrect answers.
After months of delays, the U.S. Air Force is about to launch the first of a new generation of GPS satellites, designed to be more accurate, secure and versatile.
Bill Berg put a 2,000 horsepower helicopter engine in his tiny electric vehicle to make the world's first jet-powered Smart car (pictured). The 'jet car' is a standard 2008 model capable of reaching 220mph, with a high performance General Electric T58-GE03 gas turbine engine. Owner Bill Berg from Colorado has managed to keep the vehicle street-legal, and now he loves nothing more than travelling the world showing off his latest prized asset. His modifications mean the Smart car can do around 160 to 170mph in about nine seconds on a race track.
East African immigrant workers in Minneapolis are rallying for fair treatment by the internet giant Amazon after Muslim employees claim they don't have enough time in the day to pray.
The Menlo Park-based social network threw a two-day bash at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, which was reportedly attended by COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Researchers from across the world, including the University of Bristol, found fossilised remains on a recent expedition to Mongolia, alongside dinosaur remains.
An investigation by ESPN's Outside the Lines found that 28 percent of 111 professional sports arenas in the US had 'high-level safety violations'. and unsanitary conditions.
A group of five islands have been built just northeast of Amsterdam on the on the Markermeer lake in the Netherlands to encourage wildlife to come back to the area after it became inhabitable.
The two superpowers have conducted several joint experiments which altered the chemical composition of the air high above Europe.
The craft, called Beresheet, Hebrew for Genesis, is shaped like a round table with four carbon-fibre legs, stands about 1.5 meters tall and weighs 585 kg (1,290 lb) .
Researchers from Harvard found that in a trial of 23 volunteers, all participants survived being hurtled out of a plane - but they all only jumped 0.6m from a stationary aircraft.
Astronomers have discovered the most distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun. Nicknamed 'Farout', the new object was announced by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center and has been given the provisional designation 2018 VG18.
A test led by American business magazine Forbes showed the weaknesses of facial recognition in some smartphone devices with the worst offender being Android and the most secure being Apple.
Droppings were collected from more than 600 birds between 2008 and 2011 at locations across the Antarctic Ocean. Scientists detected human pathogens which cause disease in the faeces.
Self-driving cars are no longer a sci-fi fantasy, but as they've become more common, so has criticism around the safety risks and how tech titans developing them are held accountable.
Tumblr can now be downloaded from the App Store after it took steps to tackle the presence of child pornography on its platform, including banning porn from the platform entirely.
A U.S. study of 192 couples over 32 years has found those who argue have a lower risk of ill health and dying early. However, this only applies to couples who row with equal intensity.
Netflix, based in California, has trialled a new feature which provides an instant-replay of crucial scenes but users have ridiculed the feature and begged for its removal.
As if tracking the websites you visit, your location and Google searches wasn't enough, now advertisers may be looking at what emojis you use to serve up the next ad you see on the internet.
The study conducted by University of Plymouth researchers also found that microplastics linger for weeks in scallops' bodies, taking as many as 48 days to disappear from their system.
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles, a new NASA study has revealed.The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field. 'We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn's rings in half an hour,' said James O'Donoghue of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
A roving delivery robot made the mistake of dropping off a student's takeout order well-done after it caught fire at the University of California, Berkeley. A 30-second clip of the incident shows people looking on, many with their phones pulled out, watching idly as the four-wheeled droid burns, until a passerby finally puts out the flames with a fire extinguisher. Kiwi Campus, the startup behind the device, later explained that the mishap was due to 'human error' and that it was removing all of its other robots from operation until it resolved an issue with the device's defective battery.
Dr Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy, from University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, was one of the scientists behind the app - available on Google Play and the Apple App Store.
An embryo with two X chromosomes will become a girl, while an embryo with an X-Y combination results in a boy but Australian researchers found this dynamic has an added complication.
Experienced divers swimming off the coast of California in recent years have noticed a black-and-white striped fish unlike any other in the region. Experts say that's because it's native to Japan.
U.S. tech giant Cloudflare is offering cybersecurity services to at least seven foreign terrorist organizations and militant groups, including Hamas, the Taliban and al-Quds Brigades.
Millions of Britons will soon collect food waste separately in a food caddy, sparking fears of an end to weekly bin collections, as councils across the country are instructed to introduce the measure.
Scientists from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden claim that even organic dairy products are – from a climate point of view – worse than their conventionally produced equivalents (stock image).
Facebook has revealed a bug may have exposed the private photos from up to 6.8 million users to third-party apps. The bug gave developers access to photos that never finished sharing on the site.
Government officials and interest groups in the US, Europe and Asia have been pressuring YouTube, Facebook and other social media services to quickly identify and remove offensive content.
Virgin Galactic has reached the edge of space for the first time, in a milestone accomplishment for Richard Branson's space tourism endeavors. The aerospace firm's SpaceShipTwo craft reached a boundary more than 50 miles above Earth on Thursday morning after blasting off on a critical flight test in the Mojave Desert. To do this, the company had to push its rocket motor to the longest burn duration yet, 'resulting in us going higher than we have before.' Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo mothership took off shortly after 10 a.m. (ET) from the Mojave airstrip carrying SpaceShipTwo.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has slammed the integration of facial recognition with smart doorbells as 'disturbing'.
Alcohol can be a quick and easy way to get into the spirit of celebration. There are those, however, who drink right past the buzz into intoxication and, often, into trouble. Professor Jamie Smolen explains.
Each year, Los Gatos-based firm SplashData evaluates millions of leaked passwords to determine which are the most easy to hack (stock image).
Scientists from the University of California have found that making tweaks to the gene SIM1, which regulates hunger, they can help suppress the appetites of people who are trying to lose weight.
The 240,000 mile long journey saw Chang'e-4 enter an elliptical orbit 80 miles above the surface. It took off from the Xichang satellite launch centre in Sichuan, s on December 7.
Controllers at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire have begun using live footage from high-definition cameras to direct take-offs and landings.
Scientists from Nottingham Trent University are hoping to create a pocket containing solar panels that can be woven into clothes and used to charge phones, tablets and fitness trackers.
Almost every year for the past six decades, Wisdom has laid an egg on Midway Atoll, an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. Now, staff at Midway have confirmed she has done it again.
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a priest decorated with hieroglyphs and statues dating back more than 4,400 years in a pyramid complex. The private tomb belonging to 'Wahtye', a high priest who served during the fifth dynasty reign of King Neferirkare, was unearthed in a buried ridge at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of the capital Cairo. His brightly painted tomb is decorated with scenes showing the royal priest alongside his mother, wife and other members of his family, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. It also contains more than a dozen niches and 24 colourful statues of the cleric and members of his family.
The survey, conducted by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, revealed this year has been the most successful year for common cranes in the UK since they were wiped out for 400 years.
While the space agency knew InSight had landed within an 81-mile-long (130 km) ellipse on the red planet, there was no way to determine exactly where it touched down within this region.
Musk announced the Model 3 in 2016 with a shockingly small $35,000 price tag. Around 325,000 put down $1,000 deposits to reserve one before they were even made.
Sue Potter, who died at 87 in 2015, donated her body to be sliced and digitized by the University of Colorado for teaching. But she also recorded herself for 15 years so students can better understand her.
The four-wheeled rover closely resembles a brightly colored cooler, except it has huge, saucer-shaped eyes and an array of cameras meant to help it navigate the streets.
Arizona police recorded 21 incidents in the past two years concerning vigilante citizens who have hurled rocks, pointed guns at and slashed the tires of Waymo's autonomous vans.
To access the feature, users enter their destination in the Maps app and then navigate to the transit icon. If a Lime vehicle is available, Maps will show a price and update their travel time.
Instagram released its 2018 Year in Review on Thursday. The list breaks down the top face filters, fandoms, hashtags, dance challenges, GIFs and other trends during the past year.
Researchers identified these historical findings between 2014 and 2018 following periods of coastal erosion along the cliffs (inset) near Hastings, East Sussex. More than 85 footprints made up of at least seven different species (such as the three-toed theropods pictured left) were found which include fine detail of skin and scales. An ankylosaur dinosaur's footprint (bottom right) is so well-preserved it even shows the claws. University of Cambridge researchers said it is likely there are many more footprints (top right from a small carnivorous theropod) hidden within the eroding cliffs of East Sussex.
Other animals flagged up as posing a threat to native UK wildlife include the fox squirrel - the biggest squirrel in north America - which can bully and out-compete existing grey and red squirrels.
Scientists at MIT can put all kinds of useful materials in the polymer before they shrink it such as metals, quantum dots and DNA.
A security expert from Comparitech.com, based in Kent, has revealed that smartphone users should turn their location tracking off as it is not clear how companies use the data.
Pichai acknowledged that concerns about the potential for AI to be misused are 'very legitimate' but that the tech industry is up to the challenge of regulating itself.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany compared casts of Neanderthal skulls with modern human skulls.
Astronomers from the University of Geneva say they have discovered for the first time a planet losing its atmosphere so quickly that it can impact its evolution.
The 500-foot long armoured vessel was destroyed in just 28 minutes and remains intact under 110 feet of water off the coast of Fife Island, New York.
Scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder, have created a tattoo that is sensitive to UV radiation. when its bearer has been in the sun too long, that tattoo appears, but vanishes with sunscreen.
NASA's Parker Solar probe snapped the image from behind its revolutionary heat shield. The mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in August. The craft is named for Dr Eugene Parker, who first predicted the existence of solar wind back in 1958, and is the only living person to have ever had a NASA mission named for them. Mercury can be seen as a bright blob in the centre of the image and a coronal streamer - structures of solar material near highly active regions of the sun - can be seen as a bright streak across the image.
Popular online bulletin board Pinterest is getting ready for a stock market debut early next year at a valuation of $12 billion or more, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison wrapped the e-bandage around the chests of rats who had a cut on their backs. This caused the wound to heal in just three days versus 12 in others.
We've pulled together a guide of the best tech deals available online, from $100 off HDTVs to cut-price laptops and a Dyson Vacuum cleaner that's even cheaper than it was on Black Friday.
Ford created a futuristic-looking dog kennel that uses noise-cancellation panels and the carmarker's active noise control technology to create an insulated environment for pets.
It was the ultimate speed battle between man and nature as Felipe Massa took on a peregrine falcon, the fastest animal on planet Earth. The falcon is capable of speeds of up to 217mph.
Uber launched a new minibus service on Tuesday in traffic-mad Cairo, Egypt's capital and one of the U.S. ride-sharing giant's fastest-growing markets.
Australian scientists found sharks incubated in tanks that simulate temperatures in 2100 became 'right handed', preferring to swim to the right, a process known as lateralization.
Most visitors think of New York's Parks as the only place to find trees. However, a new study found New York City has over 5 million 'forested natural areas' along with 666,000 street trees.
The underwater skeletons of 185 wooden ships, referred to as ghost vessels, were deliberately sunk or have been left to decompose for hundreds of years in the Potomac River, Maryland, US.
A researcher from Princeton University in New Jersey has found that testosterone levels and masculine features are directly related to the perception of a man's talent.
An accidental discovery by Harvard academics has now found that a slightly different version of RNA may have been the key ingredient allowing for life on Earth to blossom.
Dr Dombard and his colleagues presented a possible solution to this problem at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, DC, this week.
Twitter is bringing back the chronological timeline for good. Now, users can toggle between viewing the newest tweets first and seeing the top tweets first by clicking the sparkle button in the app.
Ed Dentel, 46, of Richmond, Virginia, was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat - known as atrial fibrillation - after his Apple Watch alerted him that something was wrong on Thursday.
Ilford-based company Bombardier Transportation is developing technology which would enable click-and-collect services on board.
The jacket alerts the rider to dangers around them and the helmet projects vital information, such as their speed, revs and a rear view camera on the visor to make you feel like Iron Man on a bike.
NASA says the incredible image is 'the largest panoramic view of the fire and fury of star birth in the distant universe.' The images uses ultraviolet light to create a never-before seen image.
A team of University of Bristol researchers used scanning electron microscopy to quantify melanosome extracts from the feathers of 97 species of modern birds with iridescent plumage.
The spacecraft completed its 16th close flyby of the giant planet this past October, revealing some of our best glimpses yet at its fascinating atmospheric processes.
The technology, called Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) will help free up traffic flow in cities, improve road safety and potentially help you to live longer, the British car maker said.
Students in China have designed self-flying Net Gear drones that would pick up a distress signal then race to the site of the fire before unfolding a net pulled tight the centre for the person to leap onto.
In a report released ahead of a climate summit in Poland, the World Meteorological Organisation pointed out that the 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years.
YouPorn, which hosts free adult videos, said it will no longer allow Starbucks products to be used in its offices. The site informed its employees of the move in an internal email on Thursday.
The FlexPai is billed as the world's first foldable smartphone by its developer Royole and has a super flexible screen which can be bent from the middle.
Researchers from the University of Washington say lessons from the Great Dying have major implications for the fate of today's warming world.
The study has revealed new insight on the potential abundance of Jupiter-sized young planets in other corners of the Milky Way, and suggests our solar system may not be unique.
Dozens of winners of the Nobel Prize have written to UK Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker setting out their concerns.
Archaeologists at University College London discovered that the bones in the feet of Neolithic cattle demonstrated distinctive wear patterns, indicative of exploitation as 'animal engines'.
Researchers at the Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder in Key Largo, Florida, played videos on a TV screen through underwater windows.
The striking artefacts were found at the mysterious site in Abermagwr, Wales, which has fascinated archaeologists for years. Romans were previously thought to have had little interaction with locals.
Researchers at the University of Manchester spent more than 10 years constructing the supercomputer, which they have dubbed SpiNNaker.
The ancient funeral practice took place when people feared the person would rise from the dead and infect people, experts revealed.
A new Boulder study claims Operation Pocket Money, a plan to deploy 11,000 sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam to cut off naval supply routes to the region, was scuppered by the storm.
Driving solely controlled by the brain, a morphing chassis and a cockpit that would look at home in a fighter jet: this is racing giant McLaren's vision for the future of motor-racing - the MP4-X F1 concept.
The 'heartland hyperloop' would run along the I-70 corridor, the major highway traversing Missouri, and would connect Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis.
The report from the National Academy of Sciences says technology to 'suck up' greenhouse gases has gotten better, and climate change is worsening.
Even if the eye-watering price of £2.1m wasn't a stumbling block, you can't have one, as every example to be built has already been reserved by a deep-pocketed buyer.
Data from Space-Track.org allowed Corby-based electronic company RS Components to analyse just how many bits of debris are currently orbiting Earth and which country they belong to.
From enormous 'construction workers' and helpful personal shoppers to shelf stackers and postmen, here are some of the latest breakthroughs in robotics presented at the summit in Tokyo.
On the back of the quiz, opticians have said if you can’t spot the subtle difference, it does not mean you have a colour vision deficiency, which affects almost three million Britons.
American Anne McClain, Canadian David Saint-Jacques and Russian Oleg Kononenko successfully took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday on their way to the ISS.
Engineers at the University of Washington have revealed the RoboFly had taken its first untethered flaps earlier this year, and now say it could fly itself within five years.
Dr Matt Hawcroft of the University of Exeter has found that unless there is a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, there will be an increase in storm frequency across the Northern Hemisphere.
Dr Peter Lucas, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire explains why male objectification may be a risky game to play in the modern world.
Scientists have captured footage of basking sharks breaching just like great white sharks – and in doing so, the lumbering creatures can hit speeds faster than even an Olympic swimmer.
Derby native Karl Martin spotted the item at a local jumble sale five years ago and used it to store toothbrushes in his bathroom.
The discoveries suggest the harsh Atacama Desert was home to complex hunter-gatherer communities that sought refuge where resources were plentiful enough to support them.
Researchers have found that geckos, native to sub-Saharan Africa, can move across a water's surface by using a slapping motion to hoist their bodies up, creating an air bubble which generates force.
The electric SolarImpact yacht is longer than a blue whale, and is topped with enough solar panels to cover a full-sized tennis court. It was designed by Zurich firm SolarImpact Yacht AG.
The auction in Boston, Massachusetts included a prototype Apollo A7L lunar boot, a Soviet space suit, a signed picture of Neil Armstrong and a series of Apollo 11 engineer's manuals.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed a technique which uses AI and 3D printing to create replicas of artwork.
Researchers at NVIDIA have been working on creating realistic looking human faces from only a few source photos for years.
German researchers stunned the medical and scientific world by replacing a baboon's heart (right) with a pig's heart (left). The operation kept the animal alive for 195 days.
Called Onyx, the battery-operated exoskeleton uses a suite of sensors, artificial intelligence and other technology to aid natural movements.
The one-off Nissan, developed in the UK in collaboration with the European Space Agency, was unveiled at the Hannover Motor Show in Germany.
A new study argues that many of the rock depositions on the red planet are the result of large bodies of moving water, not just ‘a puny river.’ Floods may have been 20 meters deep.
One of the most cataclysmic events in the universe has been detected by Australian astronomers despite barely making a ripple through earth.
Comet 46P/Wirtanen, the so-called ‘Christmas comet’ known to cast a striking green glow in the night sky, follows a 5.4-year orbit that will bring it to its closest point to Earth on Sunday, December 16.
Chang'e-4 took off from the Sichuan, south-west China at 6:30 GMT, with the launch declared a success. It will perform a 'soft-landing' and land on the moon after a 27 day journey through space.
The average person in Europe now uses 3,000−5,000 litres of water per day, researchers claim, and this interactive map shows the regions that are most severely affected by water shortages.
The rectangular berg was spotted near the Larsen C ice shelf, and NASA experts believe it the sharp edges are evidence it may have recently broken off the shelf.
A period of high pressure is persisting over the Gulf of Alaska and causing abnormally warm weather and a pocket of hot ocean water. Previous blobs have caused droughts and heatwaves.
Academics tested the fragments and found that they 'show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum,' the Washington institution said.
A 30-second timelapse video shot by the billionaire tech mogul shows his point of view from a walk down the entire length of the rapid-transit tunnel underneath LA.
A fascinating new video has shown what it looks like from a self-driving Tesla sedan's point of view as it navigates a windy road. The footage is sourced from the car's on-board Autopilot computer.
More than half of American women share their beds with humans or dogs, and a third sleep with cats, according to a Canisius College study. People and cats are equally disruptive, but dogs make us comfy.
The empires of Ancient Greece and the Romans produced many marble sculptured which are synonymous with the long-ago era. Researchers now believe they were originally coloured.
'Every time we take a picture,' Surhud More, an astronomer at the University of Tokyo told the Washington Post, 'there is this possibility that Planet Nine exists in the shot.'
The competition is run annually by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, a London based charity dedicated to water and environmental management.
Research at a farming site in central Anatolia, in what is now Turkey, has uncovered a very detailed picture of the human diet which included extensive knowledge of dairy farming.
Ancient human ancestors settled in Northern Africa 2.4 million years ago, new archaeological evidence reveals. Early hominins and their material culture have previously been traced to East Africa.
Researchers led by conservationists from the Galapagos Whale Shark Project looked at whale sharks near Darwin Island, in the far north of the Galapagos Archipelago.
Archaeologists found the ornately-decorated burial site in Cumae, a ruined city in modern Italy which was among the first ancient Greek settlements in western Europe.
NASA, which is based in Washington, DC, released a photograph taken by its Insight spacecraft shortly after it landed on Mars, showing part of the probe and the Martian surface in the distance.
Tokyo-based developers from Japan's Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute say the robot could replace workers assembling ships and aircraft.
The extremely rare lucky charm was discovered at a previously unexplored site in Þjórsárdalur valley in south Iceland.
Anthony Levandowski, a former Uber engineer, claims to have completed the longest coast-to-coast trip across the US in a semi-autonomous vehicle, driving from San Francisco to New York City.
According to the Bible, Moses liberated the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and led them through the wilderness of Sinai, before they crossed the River Jordan into the promised land of Canaan.
The Wind Motion, designed by Mathis Ruhl, from France, is 100 per cent self sufficient meaning its owner can stay at sea for eternity - provided they have enough food and water.
Archaeologists have discovered signs of a 'life of drudgery' from early 19th century Londoner's bones while working on a burial site at New Covent Garden Market in south-west London.
The pink and yellow sandstone object, designed to resemble a human face was discovered in a field in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Mysterious footage shows the squirming mass with parts writhing in every direction outside an apartment in Houston, Texas.
Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin identified nearly two dozen new species of microbe, many of which gobble up greenhouse gases and other waste to survive and grow.
The 110 million-year-old tracks were found in Jinju Innovation City in South Korea. Researchers say each footprint measures just 1 cm long, suggesting the tiny raptor's legs were the size of matchsticks.
Japanese researchers at Kyoto University have unveiled a prototype 'robot snake' that slither, curl around surfaces and climb just like the real thing. They believe it could be used to save lives.
Souza, who was the Chief Official White House photographer for U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, used Apple's new iPhone XS to take these shots for Dailymail.com.
An animation built by a joint Dutch and German team shows dust and gas whipping around the edges of Sagittarius A* at speeds of up to 56,000 miles per second (90,000 kilometres per second).
Archaeologists discovered graves in the district of Pomalca in the region of Lambayeque in Peru. It is believed these people had their feet removed after death to be re-purposed for use in jewellery.
The stamping ring was found by Professor Gideon Forster from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the fortress built by King Herod in 1969.
Gorillas at Bristol zoo have demonstrated the ability to knowingly cheat at a game in order to win. Scientists say they've seen 'seen a lot of cheating behaviour' from the animals.
Astronomers from the university of Leeds were investigating the surrounding rotating disc of gas and dust and detected a faint object just beyond a young star 40 times larger than our sun.
New research from the University of Edinburgh suggests humans had a sophisticated knowledge of the stars as long as 40,000 years ago.
The eight limestone coffins were found in the same pyramid as King Amenhoth II located in Dahshur, near the Great Pyramids of Giza west of capital Cairo.
The announcement was made at a joint meeting of the Moscow-based Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos and the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (stock image).
Officially named 'Little Colonsay', scientists spotted the rock in a wider image, and have now decided to go back for a closer look.
Researchers say the next supercontinent will form in 200-250m years. The most likely is Novopangea, where the Americas collide with the Antarctica, and into the already collided Africa-Eurasia.
Google's new Mountain View campus will cover a sprawling space of 3.12 million square feet, in addition to 400,000 square feet of retail space, 8,000 new homes and 35 acres of public areas.
Meghan Markle, the American actress who married Prince Harry in May, has seen more people look up her name than any other figure in the UK.
Rare gold coins and a golden earring were found in the ancient Mediterranean port of Caesarea in northern Israel, hihden in a well to keep the treasure from Crusaders/
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has finally arrived at asteroid Bennu more than two years after blasting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It will return a sample in 2023.
Elon Musk boasts the car will be able to hit 0-60mph in just 1.9 seconds - and has revealed footage of the first road tests of the car with customers.
Juno is in a highly-elliptical 53-day orbit around the planet and has revealed some of our best glimpses yet of its fascinating atmospheric processes.
Footage of a gruelling seven hour, 45 minute spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts - Sergei Prokopyev and Oleg Kononenko - were forced to use knives to uncover the source of the leak.
An anonymous source with knowledge of the company said the dune buggy concept is currently under construction and is expected to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2019.
Documentary photographer, Mohammad Baghal Asghari travelled to the Kerman Province in Iran to capture the devastating results of drought in Iran.
A 2000-year-old figurine depicting 'Cernunnos', the Celtic god of nature, life and the underworld was found in farmland by archaeologists on the National Trust's Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire.
The amazing martian footage, which shows the passing of light on the martian surface, was posted on NASA InSight's Twitter account.
During the performance, which was held in the city of Yaroslavl, the 'robot' had even said (in an android-like voice) 'I know mathematics well but I also want to learn to draw'.
According to new research led by archaeologist Maya Hoole from the Achavanich Beaker Burial Project, Ava died around 4,350 years ago as opposed to 3,700 years ago as previously thought
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
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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