Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University used the images, taken from 70,000 feet (13.2 miles / 21km) above the Earth. The images have revealed details including prehistoric mass-kill hunting traps in eastern Jordan (left), irrigation systems of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in northern Iraq (top right), as well as images of the Syrian city of Allepo before war ravaged it (bottom right).
New footage of debris from an Atlas V Centaur rocket's upper stage soaring through space nearly ten years after its launch has highlighted the ever-growing concerns over space junk. The European Space Agency today shared a look at the fragments captured just last month by the Deimos Sky Survey, revealing an estimated 40 to 60 pieces that could each be larger than a foot (30 cm) in size. It comes as one the United States' top military officials warned that one of Earth's biggest space-borne threats may in fact be the 'junk' left over from decades of missions.
Because of a feature associated with the security app, Find My iPhone, a new report says tens of thousands of fully functioning iPhones donated every year end up being scrapped for parts.
Facebook shipped tens of thousands of controllers for its new Oculus headsets with 'inappropriate easter eggs' making light of the company's privacy disasters.
Forward-leaning scientists and researchers say advancements in society's computers and biotechnology will go straight to our heads — literally.
After launching from California’s Vandenberg Air Force base atop a Falcon 9 rocket in 2021, the DART craft is expected to reach the object Didymos in October 2022 ahead of its planned collision.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket successfully took its second flight ever on Thursday afternoon, when it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying Lockheed Martin's Arabsat 6A communications satellite. As if that weren't exciting enough, SpaceX also managed to make history by landing three boosters back on Earth for the first time. Just minutes into the launch, the giant rocket's central core landed safely on SpaceX's offshore barge in the Atlantic Ocean, dubbed 'Of Course I Still Love You,' while the two side boosters landed back on pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Landing Zone 1 and 2.
A study claims that most people have a similar idea of which colours they would associate with certain vowels. 'O' and 'u' were more associated with darker colours while 'i', 'e' and 'a' were lighter.
Scientists at the University of Milan have predicted there could be 162 million plastic particles across the entire Forni glacier in south-east Switzerland based on a sediment study looking for microplastics.
SpaceX has managed to achieve yet another historic milestone. Elon Musk announced that his company was able to recover both fairing halves of the megarocket for the first time.
When activated, the robot simulates real human motions in order to identify, pick up and deliver bite-sized food items using its fork, adapting its technique depending on the morsel in question.
Scientists are beginning to pick apart the data surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 – an object historically revealed this week as the first black hole ever directly imaged. It sits 55 million light-years from Earth, and is estimated to have a staggering mass of about 6.5 billion times that of the sun. Observations from NASA’s Chandra and NuSTAR satellites now reveal it’s also ejecting high-energy particles at nearly the speed of light, spewing material for than 1,000 light-years.
Facebook could be planning to fold Messenger back into the 'big blue app.' It would mean that users wouldn't have to leave the Facebook app in order to review their chats.
Experts from the University of Surrey looked at the concept of ‘absolute mobility’, the proportion of people earning more than their parents, and found that the financial crash was the biggest factor.
Instagram users may want to be extra careful about what they share on their Stories. A number of users began noticing strangers' Stories showing up at the top of their feed, sparking privacy concerns.
The Amazon show is set in the near future when we can share emotions, thoughts and what we see with our eyes on a social network embedded in our brains.
Israel’s attempt to become the first country to land a private spacecraft on the moon has ended in failure. The Beresheet spacecraft began experiencing problems shortly after it began its descent, despite a promising start in which it sent back a selfie at just 22 kilometers from the surface. Mission control confirmed just minutes later that it had lost contact with the lander after resetting the main engine in effort to address an issue and get it all working again.
Researchers at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California hope to gain an insight into how animals adapt to being in space. It seems being in a completely foreign situation didn't affect the animals too significantly as they behaved relatively normally. They were feeding, self-grooming, huddling and interaction socially just as they would on Earth.
A study led by the University of Alicante and the University of Upsala in Sweden, found the presence of rival males makes the sperm faster, more competitive and allows it to function better.
Self-assembling DNA material capable metabolising and organising itself have been made in a lab in Cornell University.
During early encounters with the Inca Empire, Spanish conquistadors reported the locals periodically sacrificed various animal species in large numbers in modern-day Peru.
Carolyn Ross, a food science professor at Washington State University, created the salt mix, which contains less sodium chloride, with a team of colleagues.
Hampshire and Thames Valley police have unveiled a new device which can detect when motorists are using their mobile phones while driving.
Information about Uber's finances were made public as part of an IPO filing ahead of going public on the New York Stock exchange.
Researchers at FireEye say traces of a dangerous malware called Triton have cropped up for the second time since since 2017, when hackers leveraged it to gain control of an oil plant in Saudi Arabia.
NASA has announced a new round of funding for 18 futuristic projects that could help propel humans further into our solar system and beyond, including a smart suit and Venus landers.
The image (right) was created by Dr Jean-Pierre Luminet, then a young researcher at The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in 1979. It shares a number of similar characteristics with the image released yesterday (left) by the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope. Dr Luminet envisioned the black hole as a black circle, which had not yet become known as the shadow of the black hole as it is today, in the centre of a luminous accretion disc, with one side clearly brighter than the other.
The 'NASA Twins Study,' monitored US astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a year on the International Space Station, and his earthbound identical twin Mark Kelly, also a former astronaut.
Scientists say climate change is eating its way alphabetically through the world's biggest ice-shelves, and Antarctica's fourth biggest could be next on the chopping block.
Nintendo is stepping into the virtual reality world for the first time with its Labo VR kit, which relies on the Switch console to power an array of interactive mini games and ToyCon experiences.
Buzz surrounding the next generation of wireless infrastructure, 5G, has reached a fever pitch, but there's just one problem: some of that buzz may just be hot air.
Scientists from Finland have conducted a study on over 2,000 twelve to 16 year old and found that the combination of grit and interest is what results in academic success.
Experts from the University of Bristol analysed the genetic data of 47,000 couples in the UK Biobank, a national resource for health research.
Sharp unveiled a new concept phone that folds vertically, transforming its 6.18-inch display into one that's small enough to fit in your pocket and looks similar to the Game Boy Advance SP.
Researchers in China inserted human versions of MCPH1, a gene that scientists believe plays a role in the development of the human brain, into 11 rhesus monkeys.
Three years ago Dr. Katie Bouman (left: watching the image being created, top right: with hard drives containing black hole image data), now 29, created an algorithm that collects data from telescopes across the world to stitch together a photograph of the phenomenon (bottom right) which is 55million light years away from Earth. Her work, which essentially turned Earth into a virtual telescope, has been praised across the political spectrum by First Daughter Ivanka Trump, Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and by A-listers including Sophia Bush and Olivia Munn. Despite helping a team of scientists at Event Horizon Telescope make the impossible possible, the electrical engineering and computer science graduate hasn't let the grand feat go to her head. Sharing her achievement on Facebook (inset), Bouman wrote: 'Watching in disbelief as the first image I ever made of a black hole was in the process of being reconstructed.'
A trove of thousands of fossils kept in storage since the Great Depression are leading researchers to dub an ancient region near the Gulf Coast the 'Texas Serengeti.'
Painted cycle lanes may make roads more dangerous, according to an Australian study suggests that this is because it makes drivers less conscious of safe distance.
Researchers from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology in Indonesia have claimed that here may have been two completely separate types of Denisovans.
Sea spiders are nightmarish-looking creatures that scuttle along the deep sea floor on their eight disproportionately long legs.
Scientists from the University of Maryland have identified four species that have 'extreme longevity' and say their adaptations could let humans live up to 240 years old.
Gareth Millward, 35, unearthed the rare find in a field near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, on the hottest day of the year last summer.
The 8-inch wide arachnid was photographed below the Andes mountains in Peru and show the frog being used to protect the spider's eggs.
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience found that rats feel pain of others due to 'mirror neurons' in the brain that are similarly actived when they feel pain themselves.
Scientists have lifted the veil on the first images ever captured of a black hole’s event horizon. In a highly-anticipated string of press conferences held simultaneously around the world on Wednesday, the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the findings from their first run of observations. Using a ‘virtual telescope’ built from eight radio observatories positioned at different points on the globe, the international team has spent the last few years probing Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, and another target in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. While black holes are invisible by nature, the ultra-hot material swirling in their midst is thought to form a ring of light around the perimeter that would reveal the mouth of the object itself based on its silhouette.
Previous research has found that both religion and a feeling of connection or 'oneness' raises overall life satisfaction. Muslims are the most 'one' and the most satisfied, according to new German research.
Chiefs of five civil rights groups have spoken out about issues with the Online Harms White Paper issued by the UK government, proposing to take sites offline if they fall foul of regulations.
Plans to restrict online content put forward by governments worldwide threaten to fragment the internet, a number of experts in the fields of law, civil rights and censorship have warned.
As many as 1,000 clips are reviewed by staff members per shift in outposts in Boston, India and Romania. In a report, staff members have said that the recordings can contain distressing content.
An amateur metal detectorist has unearthed a precious jewel that could have belonged to Edward IV or one of his inner circle. It was discovered by Lisa Grace in a field in Lincolnshire.
Biomedicine student Martin Kaae Kristiansen, 28, from Denmark, used a microscope to film the abundance of organisms on vegetables from the store.
Should Sơn Đoòng link to other chambers, it would become 'easily the largest cave in the world and it would never be overtaken,' said dive organiser Howard Limbert.
University of Tennessee psychologists looked at nearly 50 years of data testing whether facial expressions can lead people to feel the emotions related to those expressions.
In a rare discovery in Alabama, scientists have stumbled upon a set of cave inscriptions that are thought to be written in the ancient Cherokee language. The inscriptions, which likely back to 1828, were found deep in Fort Payne, Alabama's Mantiou Cave and describe sacred rituals like the sport of stickball in amazingly rich detail. Scholars published their translations today in the journal Antiquity , which they believe were left by the spiritual leader of a team playing a game of stickball, often referred to as 'the little brother of war,' that's similar to lacrosse.
Studying the eruption of Anak Krakatau, new simulations are helping researchers to better understand how the island's explosion in 2018 set off a devastating tsunami
US streaming giants Netflix and YouTube are set to go head-to-head in a battle for interactive content following the success of Bandersnatch.
Prince Charles Edward Stuart, known as the Young Pretender, led the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The new image was created by Hew Morrison using a mask from a museum in Fort William.
A study from the University of Tel Aviv comparing genes from ancient humans and woolly mammoths have found shared traits that allowed them to adapt to the same harsh environments．
In MIT researcher Rizwan Virk's new book, 'The Simulation Hypothesis,' he puts forth the idea that there's a very good chance we're all living in a computer simulation.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will take to the skies tonight for its second ever flight - as long as the weather permits it. Launch is currently set for 8:32 p.m. ET, but the firm is keeping an eye on winds.
Facebook's long-awaited Clear History tool has been delayed yet again. After almost a year since it's initial launch, the tool is expected to arrive in the fall, much later than when the firm first said it would.
Facebook was given the green light on a patent that suggests it may rove users' personal pictures to be re-purposed as adverts for certain products and brands.
While alligators may be apex predators during their lifetime, when they die, many return to the watery depths to become just another part of the food chain, shows new research
According to scientists, a creature similar to H.P. Lovecraft's fictional and monstrous sea beast, Cthulhu, did exist at one point — the only difference is it was about 3 cm wide.
The controversial finding confirming the presence of methane on Mars last week has been thrown into doubt by analysis from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and presented in Vienna.
Now a study suggests the mysterious monument on Salisbury Plain may have been created to commemorate a humble house on the same site.
In a nearly 2,000-word blog post, Facebook unveiled a slew of new policies that the company will put into place to clamp down on false news stories, images and videos.
Exposed bees demonstrated symptoms including apathy, poor coordination and hyperactive behaviour - all of which reduce their chances of continued survival.
Maliciously spoiling 'Game of Thrones' for your friends — or enemies — just got a lot easier with a new app that automatically texts details of new episodes to a victim of your choice.
Amazon Go stores will soon let customers check out, use cash and then receive change. The firm has received criticism that the cashless model discriminates against low-income shoppers.
Glaciers around the world contain nuclear and radioactive material after it is pumped into the atmosphere and then snow ingrains it in the glaciers.
A previously unknown hominin has been found in a cave on Luzon, an island in the Asian archipelago. Hominins are members of the human family tree more closely related to one another than apes.The fossils, pictured left, were found to date back to a time period in the late Pleistocene era as recent as 50,000 years ago. Scientists have said that the small size of its teeth, bottom left, indicate that it had a small stature. Right, the graphic shows a timeline of when different species of hominin fossils were found.
The researchers captured infrared images that clearly show hotspots in the planet's stratosphere (depicted in red and yellow), where its aurora are generated.
Researchers from the University of Western Australia found males quipped with physical ornaments - such as beards, manes or capes - tend to have smaller gonads.
While less than 1 percent of tracks still contain skin traces, paleontologists say skin impressions were found all throughout the tiny footprints from the site near Jinju City.
A study by the University of Denmark suggests that eating animals from 'nose-to-tail' would reduce the carbon footprint of the giant global meat industry by reducing greenhouse gases.
The wings were presented to the three-person crew at the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado. It comes after they flew on the company's rocket plane in February.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the UK result in the loss of around 386 square miles (1,000 square km) of Arctic sea ice every September.
A joint Russian-South Korean research team are optimistic that they will obtain the cells needed to attempt to clone the extinct cold-resistant Lenskaya breed.
A new technique developed by researchers at the University of Utah restored dynamic movement in 10 patients who trained on the system three times a week for six weeks.
In a two-second video clip, the Starhopper can be seen roaring to life and very briefly lifting off the launch pad, propelled by its methane-powered Raptor rocket engine. Musk confirmed the test, which took place late Friday night at SpaceX's Boca Chica, Texas facility, in a tweet on Saturday morning.
Japanese electronics giant Sony are installing a 'super resolution' television screen which is 63ft by 17ft (19.2m by 5.4m) at a research centre owned by Japanese cosmetics group Shiseido, in Yokohama.
Flying cars may be more environmentally friendly than conventional vehicles when used to make journeys of over 22 miles (35 kilometres), reports new research.
Tesla's Sentry Mode helped San Francisco cops nab a would-be car thief who broke into a Model 3. It relies on a Tesla's 360-degree cameras to record while the carowner is away.
The flaws, discovered by researchers at cybersecurity firm Tenable, affect Verizon's Fios Quantum Gateway router, which is used by millions of customers of the telecommunications giant.
Facebook rolled out new tools for memorialized accounts and said it was beefing up its AI tools to prevent its site from surfacing painful reminders of deceased loved ones.
Israel's privately-funded lunar lander will attempt to make history this week by touching down on the surface of the moon. The landmark attempt set for Thursday afternoon will be live-streamed.
Hypersonic jet travel across the Atlantic moves a step closer this month when scientists successfully tested technology to stop jet engines melting at speeds of up to 25 times the speed of sound. Researchers at Reaction Engines managed to make a 'pre cooler' work at a simulated speed of 3.3 mach or 2,500 mph - that means large scale hypersonic engines that could be fitted to passenger jets are a step closer to being realised. Their experimental Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine (Sabre) is designed to be fitted to large aircraft and could ferry passengers around the world in hours and deliver goods into orbit. The 'pre-cooler', shown in the graphic, bottom left, which lets the aircraft, artist's impression, bottom right, travel at high speed without hot air rushing in and causing the engine to melt, was tested at simulated speeds of Mach 3.3, or more than three times the speed of sound.
New discoveries about bacteria could prove to be the key to mitigating methane-induced climate change in Earth's atmosphere, that is if humans don't destroy the specimen first.
Twitter wants to send a message to spammers. The firm is now capping the number of accounts people can follow each day to 400, down from the previous limit of 1,000 accounts.
A monthly report from the World Meteorological Society shows some areas of eastern Europe soared to as much as 3 degrees Celsius over average temperatures logged over the last 30 years.
Research from the University of Sussex asked 26,596 people from more than 100 countries to name their favourite colour and reveal what word they most associate with this hue.
A researcher from the University of Adelaide named one wasp Sathon oreo due to the animal's antennae being dark brown with a thick white stripe in the middle, like an Oreo chocolate biscuit.
Researchers from Curtin University in Western Australia have developed a tool which could be able to spot rare conditions in children by measuring subtle differences in their face.
Amazon has left users scratching their heads after it launched horoscopes exclusively for Prime members. But instead of offering life advice, they're rife with targeted marketing.
Scientists in Singapore have created a device that can predict alternative realities and potential futures. They built a quantum computer that can generate simultaneous futures.
The sun is an enormous ball of plasma - super hot, electrically-charged gases - from which arc magnetic field lines that form giant, fiery loops into space (left and top right). The notion of rain on the sun may seem absurd - but the familiar weather phenomenon is a great analogue for some of the processes that take place on the surface of our neighbourhood star. The findings create a link between two of the sun's biggest mysteries - the nature of the heating which causes the sun's outer atmosphere (bottom right) to be around 300 times hotter than its underlying surface, and the source of the slower and denser parts of the solar wind.
Brigham Young University researchers used ultra-sensitive infrared cameras trained on the pupils of various people and found it takes less than 200 milliseconds for stress to take its toll on the body.
A European project, involving fourteen institutions from 10 countries, will drill several kilometres below the ice in Antarctica to give them clues into the Earth's past climate.
Georgia has a decorated ancient wine-making tradition and now wants to be the first nation to make wine on Mars.
Researchers from Switzerland produced detailed simulations showing the likely futures of the glaciers in the Alps - with massive changes predicted.
The new iPhone app is similar to Exodus - a malicious Android app flagged by security experts in March, which has been unwittingly installed by hundreds of Android phone users in Italy.
Researchers at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, analysed his earliest-known work to find two pieces of writing, one of which was completed with his left hand and the other with his right.
Experts say consistent grammar and punctuation, along with many stylistic similarities, means the epic Old English poem is likely to have been the work of a single author
British fitness entrepreneur Zef Eisenberg has beaten Sir Malcolm Campbell and actor Idris Elba to break the speed record for the historic flying mile at 182mph (293km/h).
Stargazers in northern Norway enjoyed an unexpected light show when a new NASA test showered the skies with brushstrokes of blue and orange-colored gases. The lights, which looked like an 'alien attack' attack to some, were actually a part of an ongoing NASA experiment dubbed The Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment (AZURE). As a part of the mission, NASA says it has launched the AZURE test rocket -- the first of eight such planed launches -- that aim to study the patterns of solar winds.
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, said his company will work to develop pothole avoidance for future generations of Tesla software. He revealed the coming update on Twitter.
Fingerprint readers on Samsung's Galaxy S10 aren't totally foolproof. Imgur user Darkshark was able to trick the in-display fingerprint reader by creating a 3D printed version of their own prints.
Facebook's string of recent privacy scandals have made a dent in user trust in the company, as 60 percent of poll respondents said they don't the firm to protect their personal data.
A San Francisco startup is hoping to offer a solution to bacteria-filled water bottles with what it claims is the world’s first self-cleaning water bottle.It uses UV-C LED to zap bacteria and viruses in minutes.
Hate your job? If you work at IBM or a company equipped with their artificially intelligent employee retention software, your planned two-week's notice may already be old news.
The lamp and bookshelf, part of a line called 'Symfonisk,' are priced at $179 and $99, respectively, and are expected to become available for purchase in August.
The UK Space Agency is investing one million pounds to develop 3D X-ray scanners based on technology used to examine stars.
Authors suggest that glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges by 2100 (including the Caucasus, Central Europe, Western Canada and the USA and New Zealand).
A sarcophagus containing an Egyptian high priest was opened on live TV Sunday during a special two-hour broadcast by the American channel Discovery. 'Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live' aired from the site outside Minya, which is along the Nile River south of Cairo and its Giza pyramids. Archeologists recently discovered a network of vertical shafts at the site which led to tunnels and tombs containing 40 mummies 'believed to be part of the noble elite.
Experts from the University of Edinburgh demonstrated this with potassium, but believe more than half a dozen other elements – including sodium and bismuth – are capable of existing in this new state.
A New Yorker writer's iPad has shown an error message that says the device is disabled for 26 million minutes after his three-year-old son entered the wrong passcode multiple times.
Researchers from researchers at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have claimed that an ocean current system really did change the ocean's climate.
Footage from Sir David Attenborough's Netflix documentary Our Planet showed walruses plunging off 250ft high cliffs in northeast Russia. But the animals could have been chased by polar bears.
New Zealand's top privacy watchdog on Monday described Facebook as 'morally bankrupt pathological liars' in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shooting that left 50 people dead.
Scientists from Bristol and Texas looking at fossil records of a particular microorganism known as foram have found that the recovery speed of its populations can take millions of years.
The US General Social Survey has tracked a broad swath of American trends since 1972 and found dog owners are twice as likely to call themselves 'very happy' than cat owners.
The VLA telescope in New Mexico captured evidence and the world's first imagery of a dusty ring - a torus - around a large and very bright black hole spewing out radio waves.
This celestial event lasted for 1 hour 44 minutes and was captured by photographer Cory Schmitz in Johannesburg. The bizarre event saw the ringed planet re-emerge from the other side of the moon - completing a process called occultation - where something is obscured from the viewpoint of a person behind another object.
The study from Lancaster University shows building more solar panels, wind turbines and using other renewable energy sources would have the same effect while using less energy resources (stock).
Samples were taken from two UK waterways, the rivers Otter (pictured) and Tale, both in Devon. A total of 24 pesticides that are not licensed for use in the European Union were detected.
The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen says fluctuations in the Arctic are why countries in Europe, North America and Asia are experiencing more severe weather
NASA scientists found microbes mostly came from humans and were similar to those found in public buildings and offices here on Earth.
Warmer temperatures led to a rise in more than two thirds of species compared with 2017, the UK’s annual monitoring scheme reveals. Black hairstreaks were up more than 900 per cent.
alled 'Snoooze,' the all-natural drink contains an elixr of herbs including linden flower, passionflower and valerian, which are meant to be soothing and relaxing.
At a recent reunion, eight former Apollo astronauts, and three of the four living men to have walked on the moon, gathered together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
A study by the University of Exeter revealed 36 genetic sites that had never been related to sleep quality or duration. This may 'inform the development of new treatments'.
When you think of the effects climate change is having on the Arctic and its wildlife, it’s often polar bears that come to mind. But, a shocking new segment of Netflix’s Our Planet has highlighted the gruesome fate of walruses forced increasingly onto shore as sea ice dwindles. The David Attenborough-narrated series shows a shocking look at walruses who have become confused by a combination of shrinking ice cover and their own poor eyesight, causing them to scale cliffs and often plummet to their deaths when they attempt to return to sea.
UN-Habitat, which works on sustainable urban development, will team up with private firm Oceanix, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Explorers Club, on the project.
Scientists from Edinburgh University have developed new imaging technology to track what molecules and chemical structures lab-grown human cells 'eat'.
It took a group of physicists two years to develop an airplane toilet that they say drastically reduces the widely-loathed noise levels of its predecessors.
Japan's space agency said its Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully dropped an explosive (pictured) designed to make a crater on an asteroid and collect its underground samples.
Siri just doesn't know when to keep quiet. A security flaw in Apple's digital assistant makes it so that users can easily send a message or make a phone call on someone else's locked device.
Falcon Heavy will be carrying Lockheed Martin’s Arabsat 6A communications satellite to orbit when it blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch is planned for April 9.
Security researchers from Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group discovered 74 Facebook groups buying, selling or trading stolen credit card information, identity information and other illicit activities.
Michigan State University researchers found female drivers in the world of auto-sport are genetically wired up to deal with the extreme conditions better than their male peers.
NASA’s Curiosity rover got a front-row seat to not one, but two solar eclipses last month. The two Martian moons Phobos and Deimos both passed in front of the sun in late March – but, each being only a few miles across at most, the transit didn’t exactly turn day to night. Animations of the events show each moon sweeping across the face of the sun, temporarily causing an eerie shadow over Mars.
Utilizing the gene-editing tool CRISPR, scientists say they were, for the first time, able to fertilize the immature eggs of 21 brown anoles, a type of tropical lizard.
Amazon is rolling out a slew of healthcare-related skills for its Alexa digital assistant. Now, users can check their prescription orders, find an urgent care center, get health insurance info and more.
The robots were built and developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, where engineers created a mock-up of the interior of the International Space Station.
A rare oil lamp emblazoned with the nine-branched menorah was also found and is being heralded as the most culturally significant find at the site in the Israeli desert.
A new thermal area has popped up in Yellowstone National Park, in yet another sign of the ever-changing magma activity beneath the surface. There are about 120 distinct thermal areas at the park.
A new wave of ultra-fast charging stations can fill up an electric vehicle in the time it takes to brew a pot of coffee. That is, if the cars' batteries can keep up.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has survived yet another blisteringly close approach to the sun. It passed within just 15 million miles (24 million km) of the solar surface the evening prior.
On Wed the South became first to commercially launch nationwide 5G, with three networks going live offering speeds that allow users to download entire movies in less than a second.
Astronauts have taken an astonishing series of 'space selfies' during extravehicular activities (or EVAs) to undertake upgrade and maintenance work on the outside of spacecraft, hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth.
Around half of deaths during heatwaves - mainly the elderly - are thought to be caused by the extra heat in cities. For example, the 2003 heatwave caused the deaths of 2,000 people in England.
British engineers have wrapped up the mummy of all repair jobs after concluding a £7 million ($9 million) restoration work on Egypt's oldest pyramid which was damaged in an earthquake in 1992.
An anonymous hobbyist found the coin in a newly-ploughed field near an ancient Roman road in Dover, Kent. The 30-year-old finder thought the coin was fake at first as it was in such good condition.
EHang entered a strategic partnership with Austria's FACC last year. Their drone aims to offer short-haul services for passengers, medical deliveries and industrial equipment.
Oxford University researchers say the well-being of children is not impacted at all by considerable use of electronic devices either during the day or at night time.
The eight-member Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) was comprised of technology experts and digital ethicists.
About 410 light years away a hunk of heavy iron and nickel continue to orbit a collapsed star in what may be the last remnants of a planet obliterated by the death of its star.
Scientists are taking a closer look at a set of ancient teeth, thought to date back 240,000 years ago, under the suspicion that they could reveal a previously unknown human relative.
An extremely rare, white whale has been filmed off of the coast of Mexico (left and top right). The marine mammal may be the same one seen in the area twice before, which has been nicknamed 'gallon of milk' after its unusual albino skin. The magnificent creature brings to mind Moby Dick (artist's impression, bottom right), the ferocious sea monster obsessively hunted by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's 1851 novel.
Elon Musk's Starship prototype has roared to life for the first time, as SpaceX completed a successful test firing of its powerful Raptor engine, causing it to lift briefly off of the launch pad.
The social media platform took the wraps off of its long-awaited gaming platform, Snap Games, on Thursday. It features six titles that let users play live, interactive games with their friends.
Amazon could go head-to-head with Apple and launch its own pair of wireless headphones. The firm's Alexa-integrated earbuds could hit the shelves as soon as later this year.
A startup says it will release a lithium-ion battery capable of powering an electric vehicle for up to 1,000 kilometers, effectively shattering the ceiling of its competitors.
New filings from e-commerce giant, Amazon, show that the company's next frontier is the final frontier as they gear up to launch thousands of Internet-providing satellites into space.
MIT has severed ties with Huawei and ZTE as U.S. authorities investigate the Chinese firms for alleged sanctions violations. It made the decision after a review of projects that posed an 'elevated risk.'
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, footage taken by a Japanese scientist has revealed that giant water bugs can eat prey as large as ten times their own size from the inside out.
Researchers at Tufts University say a special chemically dyed thread is capable of visually alerting the wearer to the presence of toxic gases like ammonia or hydrogen chloride.
Renowned photographer Tui De Roy, who grew up on the islands off the coast of mainland Ecuador has captured images from the Galapagos islands of how climate change is killing marine iguanas. Other images captured on the archipelago include a colourful iguana posing on the rocks and the unusual spectacle of a swimming lizard.
A drill that will spearhead the search for life on Mars was put through its paces using a vehicle resembling a soapbox derby contraption.
The ancient workshop is thought to date back to the 18th Dynasty, during the reign of Amenhotep III – King Tut’s grandfather. The sphinx and hundreds of hieroglyphic fragments were found at the site.
The battery-powered devices about the size of a small cooler and can deliver packages autonomously, but for now, they'll be accompanied with a human while they're being tested out.
On Dec. 21, during winter solstice, four of Juno's cameras captured images of the Jovian moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, on the mission's 17th flyby of the gas giant.
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.
First found in China, it has caused significant problems in other areas it has invaded. It can form dense mats of up to 1,500 mussels per square metre – which can suffocate scallops and oysters.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have studied thousands of species of animals and birds to work out where reservoirs of contagious, mosquito-borne viruses could be.
The startup, called Humu, uses machine learning to parse through employee data and then 'nudges' workers to help them improve in areas that might make their work lives better.
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.
Footage of the colour-changing octopus was captured by a free-diver as he swam in the crystal clear waters in the French Riviera.
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.
McLaren have given Formula One fans their take on what the future of the sport looks like as they presented the 2050: the MCLExtreme, a futuristic race car built and designed for the future.
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.
A new pair of hovershoes unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, called Motokicks, could soon replace your scooter, bike and skateboard - just don't try to take them for a spin in the rain.
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.
The New Horizons probe was slated to reach the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt at 12:33 a.m. Eastern - but NASA did not receive confirmation it was a success until 10:30am this morning.
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.
Michelle Vall, 53, of Blackpool found the artefact under six inches of mud while holidaying at Loch Lomond. The signet ring is in perfect condition and is believed to be worth up to £10,000.
Archaeologists believe they have found the final resting place of Antony and Cleopatra in the ancient city of Taposiris Magna, around eighteen miles from Alexandria in Egypt.
Fifteen Gallic amphoras were found half submerged in the sand and were first spotted by two scuba divers outside the city of Portofino in late November last year.
Celebrities have pledged to state when they have been paid to endorse products online. British stars like Ellie Goulding and Rita Ora are among 16 celebs who have made the commitment.
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.
Military chiefs planned to use the explosives, codenamed Blue Peacock (pictured), to devastate Soviet forces if they forced the western Allies into retreat during an invasion of Europe.
US sportswear giant Nike has teased its first self-lacing basketball trainers, which the company has suggested will be controllable from a smartphone.
A Russian historian claims the French Emperor ordered decoys to be sent to a fictional burial site 40 miles from the actual location during his retreat from Moscow in 1812.
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.
Hess was captured by 1941 in Scotland after parachuting into the UK and tried at Nuremberg and later imprisoned at Berlin's Spandau prison.
Price beats the previous world record for a British coin by more than £200,000. Only 20 of the 'Vigo' five guinea pieces were minted, to celebrate the theft of American gold form the Spanish fleet.
The enormous predator, known as 'Deep Blue', was first seen by diver and photographer Mark Mohler and Kimberly Jeffries on Sunday last week nine miles from the coast off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
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.
Blue Origin, the commercial rocket company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is carrying out its tenth test flight of its New Shepard rocket from its Texas launchpad today.
The findings, by researchers at the University of Oxford, could help predict a sportsman's performance - and the rate of his decline - over his career.
San Francisco based Earth imaging company Planet Lab has launched a record number of satellites into space which combined can photograph the entire landmass of the world.
Gadgets on show this week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas include the Y-brush, which cleans your teeth in just ten seconds.
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.
French startup Neural Up demonstrated its incredible relaxation technology in Las Vegas this week at CES. The patented acoustic technology aims to 'enhance your emotional balance.'
Experts say the stellar ‘tantrum’ could provide a window into the birth of potentially habitable exoplanets, revealing how huge events shake up the material orbiting distant stars.
Researchers with the Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis System have confirmed that a small, bright flash spotted by some observers was a rogue space rock crashing into the lunar surface.
Researchers from the University of Washington say lessons from the Great Dying have major implications for the fate of today's warming world.
China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft has brought vegetable seeds and silkworm eggs in a small tin to the moon. Researchers hope the seeds will grow to blossom on the moon in 100 days.
UberAir will make its debut in the American cities of Los Angeles and Dallas in 2023, and is hoping the taxis may fly in British skies in the next decade.
A trial is starting in August which will see customers leave their car in a drop-off zone before summoning a robot through a designated app. It will be at Gatwick's South Terminal long-stay car park.
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.
A new investigation into the genome of Asian populations has spotted the footprint of a long-ago hominid that appears to have been cross-bred from two different species of human ancestor.
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.
Former Israeli Air Force pilot Alon Getz helped design the new cutting-edge technology as part of his start-up company RideOn. It is being trialed in Austria.
Byton kicked off CES 2019 by revealing the souped up interior of its M-Byte vehicle, complete with additional displays – including a touchscreen in the middle of the steering wheel.
Anjou unveiled a tabletop device that can print any picture on your nails in 30 seconds. The firm demo'ed at CES, showing how users can choose from 500 designs or upload their own images.
Unlimited Tomorrow's new lower-cost method for creating high-tech prosthetics aims to make the devices much more accessible to amputees around the world – especially children.
Researchers at the University of Manchester spent more than 10 years constructing the supercomputer, which they have dubbed SpiNNaker.
Formed between July and September 2018, the huge impact smashed through the ice at the planet's southern ice cap, sending debris into a unique pattern.
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.
The 'heartland hyperloop' would run along the I-70 corridor, the major highway traversing Missouri, and would connect Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis.
Archaeologists developed a programme to save endless hours in the restoration of historical items. Trials were conducted on Byzantine art from Cyprus.
Ovie, a Chicago-based start-up, claim to 'make it easy for you to track what's in your fridge and waste less'. The containers have coloured discs that tell you when food is going out of date.
The movie was put together from photos taken New Year's Eve and New Year's Day as the spacecraft made its closest approach, but not sent back to Earth until recently.
The report from the National Academy of Sciences says technology to 'suck up' greenhouse gases has gotten better, and climate change is worsening.
The largest technology show in the world kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas with an amazing set of innovations on display including a smart cat bowl, an electric skateboard and a motorised suitcase.
The prototype, known as a 'hopper', was set to be used to test the propulsion systems in the rocket before a full scale prototype was built.
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.
New pictures released this week show construction underway on the test vehicle of the SpaceX ship that could one day bring humans tourists to Mars. Musk says he is aiming for test flights this spring.
The video reveals the 3500ft borehole into Mercer Subglacial Lake, a hydraulically active lake that lies more 1000m beneath the Whillans Ice Plain on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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.
USC researchers 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.
One of the most cataclysmic events in the universe has been detected by Australian astronomers despite barely making a ripple through earth.
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.
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.
The European Space Agency revealed it has signed up rocket maker ArianeGroup to develop plans for a moon base that could be used to mine material from the lunar surface.
Everything from autonomous 'people-movers' to a VR experience that lets users battle Iron Man from the backseat of a car was on display at the world's largest tech trade show.
At CES, Intel demonstrated its tech in the Hoobox Robotics’ Wheelie 7 kit, which can be retrofitted to existing motorized chairs to give the rider control using only their facial expressions.
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.
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.
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.
Called SB>1 Defiant, the radical craft is being built by Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky - and has been revealed for the first time. It will fly twice as fast as current helicopters.'
Astronomers are now picking a favourite telescope and the four different ideas are competing to be built in the 2030s.
Unlike other pet treadmills on the market, the pricey system, debuted at CES in Las Vegas, is equipped with LED lights to motivate your cat into exercise, and allows you to set fitness goals.
The huge tank is being stress tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
China has also revealed it is planning to go back to the moon later this year with the Chang'e-5 lander following the phenomenal success of the ongoing Chang'e-4 mission.
Experts from British Columbia University in Canada believe they are likely to be caused by the left overs of an exploding star - or supernova - or a a supermassive black hole.
Harley-Davison showed off its first ever electric motorcycle at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. Pre-orders for the $29, 799 vehicle are now open in the US, and it should begin shipping by fall 2019.
International eco-charity Greenpeace was one of the first environmental organisations to jump on the trending hashtag, sharing two photographs that highlight the effect of Amazon deforestation.
The moon rock was brought back to Earth for analysis but now 48 years on from the 1971 mission, experts have now claimed that the rock was a fragment from our planet.
Divers have been studying wreckage off the coast of Buka Island, 100ft below the ocean surface and say they have found a piece of glass that 'shares some consistencies' with landing lights from Earhart's plane.
Experts from Northwestern University studying a celestial object called AT2018cow have concluded it may be the first time the formation of a new black hole or neutron star has been captured.
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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