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Jeff Bezos' futuristic vision of self-sustaining habitat that could house a TRILLION

Building off of a concept introduced decades ago by physicist Gerard O'Neill – who Bezos himself studied under during his time at Princeton, according to Fast Company – the Blue Origin founder outlined self-sustaining habitats that could hold entire cities, agricultural areas, and even national parks in space. While such a future may still be a ways off, Bezos says it will be an ‘easy choice’ when faced with dwindling resources on Earth. The habitats, reminiscent of the film Interstellar, could be built close enough to Earth to allow people to travel back and forth, and house ‘a million people or more each.’ And, according to Bezos, they’d have the ‘ideal climate’ at all times, ‘like Maui on its best day, all year long.’

Stone Age families crawled on hand and foot through dark caves for FUN carrying wooden torches 14,000 years ago, new study suggests

A series of tracks created roughly 14,000 years ago has revealed stunning new insight into the ways ancient humans explored dark, potentially treacherous cave systems during the Stone Age. Researchers say at least 180 hand and footprints line the clay-rich floor of Italy’s cave of Bàsura in the famous Toirano caves, indicating ancient humans crawled barelegged through low tunnels as they searched for food and even explored for fun. The group that left behind these tracks thousands of years ago included a total of five individuals, from adults to children as young as three years old, who navigated the dark pathways using wooden sticks as torches.

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2018, file photo, demonstrators hold images of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos near their faces during a Halloween-themed protest at Amazon headquarters over the company's facial recognition system, "Rekognition," in Seattle. San Francisco is on track to become the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition by police and other city agencies as the technology creeps increasingly into daily life. Studies have shown error rates in facial-analysis systems built by Amazon, IBM and Microsoft were far higher for darker-skinned women than lighter-skinned men. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Departments will need to get board approval to continue using or acquiring technology. The legislation bans municipal use but not personal, business or federal government use of face ID technology.

Google said on Tuesday it will also start placing ads with image galleries in search results and show ads in new spots on Google Maps, increasing opportunities for advertisers.

Match announced today that it is beginning to roll out a new service called AskMatch which allows its paid users to chat on the phone with one of the company's dating 'experts.'

The NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a storm watch earlier this week for Wednesday into Thursday and has since extended the forecast into Friday.

Lenovo unveils the 'world's first' foldable laptop with a 13-inch bendable screen that folds in half to become the size of a book

The Chinese tech giant is bringing bendy screen technology to a totally new gadget, releasing what it's calling the 'world's first foldable PC.' Users can fold it in half to read their favorite book in bed, unfold it and stand it up using the built-in kickstand to watch their favorite videos hands-free, or use it as a full-screen tablet to take notes during a meeting at the office.

The FTC opened an investigation into Facebook's data dealings after it was revealed last Match that some 87 million users' data had been harvested and shared with Cambridge Analytica.

NASA has revealed its upcoming moon mission, which is currently tied to an ambitious 2024 deadline, will be led by both male and female astronauts for the first time.

Security researchers have discovered a new set of flaws in Intel processors that could leave users exposed to cyber-attacks akin to those caused by the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.

People care about their privacy, but not enough to quit buying gadgets that expose their personal data, says a new study on consumer habits.

Miraculous 'bio-glue' that sets under UV light and can heal fatal wounds to organs in seconds is developed by scientists 

Scientists from Zhejiang University in China have developed a gel-like 'glue' that can be activated by shining ultraviolet light on it (left). The substance formed a waterproof seal around a 6mm opening in 20 seconds when tested on pig livers (inset) causing bleeding to be stopped. Its creators say it is strong enough to withstand pressure in the heart and could close fatal wounds without the need for staples or stitches. It could hold promise in humans and be used war-torn regions or during surgery to stop fatal bleeding

With a few steps, Alexa Guard turns Amazon's voice-activated speakers into smart home security devices that can listen for things like broken glass and carbon monoxide or smoke alarms.

Survey of Britons found 67 per cent of female owners say that their device fails to respond to a voice command at least 'sometimes', compared to 54 per cent of male owners.

Experts from Washington State University miked up 17 toddlers and gathered day-long audio recordings of conversations with their parents to see who initiates communication with who.

The NASA-funded project is being led by aerospace engineer Phillip Ansell, electrical engineer Kiruba Haran and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the US.

Elon Musk shares photo of rocket stacked with 60 satellites as SpaceX launches

The SpaceX's CEO (bottom right) has tweeted a picture of a rocket packed full with 60 satellites (left) due to be launched this week as part of his Starlink project that aims to provide high-speed internet to the world, in particular, underserved regions such as parts of Africa. Many more satellite-filled launches are needed for even low coverage. The project could potentially launch 12,000 satellites into orbit

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Explorer finds a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the bottom of the ocean nearly 7 MILES beneath the surface during deepest-ever submarine dive into the Mariana Trench

In a series of five separate trips into the Mariana Trench, Victor Vescovo, a private equity investor, former naval officer, and now, the record-holder for deepest manned submarine dive, joined a narrow list of explorers to visit the vast underwater chasm. While Victor Vescovo's journey recorded a number of phenomena, including three new species of marine life, he also turned unwelcome visitors: a plastic bag and a candy wrapper.

Researchers looked at millions of rides in San Francisco that took place between 2010 and 2016 -- pre and post Uber and Lyft -- looking at factors like the number of vehicle miles traveled and delays.

FILE- In this Nov. 9, 2018, file photo a box of merchandise is unloaded from a truck and sent along a conveyor belt at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston. Walmart is rolling out free next-day delivery on its most popular items, increasing the stakes in the retail shipping wars with Amazon. The nation's largest retailer said Tuesday it's been building a network of more efficient e-commerce distribution centers to make that happen. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

The next-day service will cover 220,000 popular items from diapers and non-perishable food items to toys and electronics. It will require a minimum order of $35 and expects to come to 75% of the US.

Experts from Macquarie University in Australia took fragments of a thin plastic carrier bag and PVC matting, which were left in artificial seawater for five days.

A scientific paper explains how retired geologist and marine ecologist Mario Wannier found the so-called Hiroshimaites littering the beaches 3.7 miles from the razed city.

Users of the mobile network voiced their frustrations over the fault for which began around 11:30 am this morning and appears to have hit users across the UK.

The reason behind the issue remains unknown but it started around 15:37 BST. Affected areas included Europe, Australia, South America and the mainland US.

A study by the Danish government says that only 6 per cent of cyclists they looked at broke the rules of the road while 66 per cent of motorists they observed had.

The tooth, identified as coming from a southern mammoth, was found Norfolk resident Brad Damms on the beach at Sidestrand, which is located east of Cromer.

The app discovered a vulnerability that allowed attackers to install malicious code on iPhones and Android phones by ringing up a target device.

The South Korea government has announced it will use the technology of 'biomimetics' to mimics animals in its robot designs for military use

First ever fossil of an ammonite trapped in amber is found in northern Myanmar

The fossil, found in northern Myanmar, is the first ever known example of an ammonite (left) to be trapped in amber. Amber normally traps and immortalises forest-dwelling creatures as it starts life as tree sap which captures them, renders them unable to escape and then hardens. The 33 mm long, 9.5 mm wide, 29 mm high chunk of amber hosts a range of different organisms from the marine world during the Cenomanian age. The researchers used X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) (right) to obtain high-resolution three-dimensional images of the organisms.

Bandai America say it can now be married to other Tamagotchis and even have children. The gadget has other updates to help it compete with other toys as it is smartphone compatible.

Just 10 brands account for half of litter which ends up on beaches and riverbanks, according to a report of a huge UK-wide clean-up involving 45,000 volunteers of who collected the waste.

The stunning shorts were captured by wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek Peters in Whixall Moss, Shropshire, on May 13, 2018. 'This behaviour is rarely photographed,' he said.

Sir David Attenborough, who will present the report today at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council, said plastic waste is an ‘unfolding catastrophe.’

Experts from the University of Tokyo in Japan have now identified a single gene that caused rightward chirality in the Lymnaea stagnalis freshwater snail.

A message which circulated on WhatsApp claimed falsely that Metro Bank 'may be shut down', prompting some customers in London to queue up at a local branch (pictured).

Twitter has apologised after a bug resulted in the sharing of location data (Lauren Hurley/PA)

In a statement, Twitter confirmed the information was not retained, adding it 'only existed in their systems for a short time, and was then deleted as part of their normal process.'

In a profanity-laden tirade from one of TV's most famous liaisons of science and learning, viewers were dealt a stark warning about the disastrous effects of climate change.

While children are known to pick up speech patterns learned from their family, a new study from Ohio State University and Purdue University has found that they learn best from other kids.

An Elon Musk -backed startup looking to connect human brains to computers has raised most of its $51 million funding target. According to a report Neuralink has raised $39 million.

Rise of the machines: Hulking 165-pound humanoid robot delicately 'walks a tightrope' of tiny blocks in eerily similar fashion to a human walking along a treacherous path

Researchers from the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition in Florida have created a robot that uses a planning algorithm to balance its way across an uneven path of cinder blocks. The video shows the robot, called Atlas, carefully moving across a balance beam using body control, much like a human would. It was created using LIDAR, a system that uses a pulsed laser to measure the distance between objects, in order to step correctly on the narrow terrain.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit by consumers accusing Apple of monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing them to overpay.

A new concept design shared by a Netflix engineer re-imagines what receipts look like and how they serve consumers by presenting data in a much more intelligent way.

Facebook Inc said on Monday it was raising its minimum wage for all U.S. contract workers, reacting to rising costs of living as it faces intense scrutiny over the treatment of ordinary employees and their pay.

Google's official merger with Nest has caught the eye of some users and experts who say it gives them little control over the future of their Nest data and, as a result, their privacy.

According to measurements from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, atmospheric CO2 has hit 415 parts per million, eclipsing highs recorded in Arctic Ice that date back 800,000 years.

NASA has awarded $500,000 dollars to the winner of its Mars Habitat competition. A New York architectural firm won with its large pod-like cylinder constructed entirely using 3D printing

The mysteriously-inscribed rock is located in a remote cove near the commune of Plougastel-Daoulas, in north west France's administrative region of Brittany.

Sir John Armitt has appealed to the government to commit to a 'once in a generation' upgrade of Britain's transport, energy and broadband networks while tackling climate change.

Blue Origin is 'going to the MOON': Jeff Bezos unveils giant concept lunar lander

Blue Origin is now in the running to put Americans back on the moon by 2024. During an event on Thursday, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos started off by sharing elaborate concept images of self-sustaining habitats reminiscent of the film Interstellar, with lush greenery and futuristic homes within its walls. But, the real star of the talk turned out to be something much closer to home – the moon. On stage, Bezos took the wraps off a massive model of what will be the firm’s first lunar lander, dubbed Blue Moon.

Amazon has considered installing two machines at dozens more warehouses, removing at least 24 roles at each one, sources said. These facilities typically employ more than 2,000 people.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi center, shakes hands with a trader after his company's initial public offering begins trading at the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, May 10, 2019. He is flanked by Uber's Chief Legal Officer Tony West, left, and board member Ryan Graves, right. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Uber shares opened 12 percent lower on Monday with stock trading trading below $40 as the company experienced yet another steep decline since it hotly anticipated market debut last week.

Experts from the US' National Science Foundation mapped the genomes of 725 cultivated tomatoes and its wild relatives to make the new finding.

A team led by Maryland University found evidence that 'scarps' - steep cliffs on the lunar surface - are often created by moonquakes caused by tectonic activity.

Unlike their modern and much smaller descendants, the 220-pound (100 kilograms) beasts did not eat wood, and instead chowed down on aquatic plants, researchers say.

Harvard University scientists have created a microchip that mimics the gut and its bacteria to help them study how certain drugs will interact with the complex flora inside the intestines.

A report from a Japanese tech site claims that Apple will be releasing its upcoming iPhone XR2 model in both green and lavender finish options.

The AI system, developed by the company Scaled Insights, is already being used in partnership with hospitals in Leeds to help communicate with patients in the treatment of obesity and other issues.

World’s fastest bullet train with a 72ft nose is unveiled in Japan

The world's fastest train has been unveiled in Japan, ahead of its 2030 launch. Dubbed the Alfa-X, it is capable of reaching speeds of up to 224 mph.

Researchers from Cornell University, Arizona State University and the Southwest Research Institute measured how long amino acids can last in water before decomposing.

French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis technology uses the sounds caused as bullets zip past to pinpoint attackers and could be used on the battlefield within two years.

Two NASA interns at the Langely laboratory in Virginia have created a plastic 'robot' with 3D printing technology using a mould and liquid silicon that has 'air bladders' that can be controlled.

British physicist and Nobel prize winner aged just 25, Sir William Lawrence Bragg, was recruited to work on the project which allowed the British and US troops to detect the German artillery.

EU countries like Romania are supporting the development of a system will include large scale sea, land and water surveillance by AI robots at national borders

Researchers from the US Smithsonian Institution and King’s College London have explored how quickly space mining might exhaust the solar system's viable resources.

Lancaster University researchers found demand for online video will double, or maybe even treble, by 2030. They also say Britain's internet usage would need six dedicated nuclear power stations.

French researchers modelled how the falling organic compounds on Saturn's moon would form a layer and the role this would play in stopping the formation of waves.

A remote-controlled cargo ship carried British oysters to Belgium in a world first

Mersea Island molluscs were on-board the 40-foot (12 m) long Sea-Kit vessel heading to Orstend in Belgium and there was not a single human being on-board. Instead, a myriad of technological gadgets and innovations fed data back to a control room in Maldon, Essex where two workers completed the 22-hour trip. Sea-Kit is capable of speeds of up to four knots (4.6mph), has a capacity of up to 2.5 tonnes and is powered by a hybrid electric-diesel engine.

Chinese researchers have developed a new camera technology they can render human sized-subjects as far as 28 miles away. It can also cut through smog and other pollution thanks to a combination of tech.

Nearly 1,000 patients complaining of chest pain were assessed and treated at Turku PET Centre, Finland and their data used to train the LogitBoost algorithm.

Google is so serious about enticing iPhone users to switch to its new Pixel that it's offering to give would-be defectors $100 in store credits. The competitive trade-in program offers trade-in values up to $610.

Not content to let Bezos have his glory, Elon Musk sent out a late night tweet including an altered image of the lander with the word 'Moon' crossed out and replaced with the word 'Balls.'

Virgin Galactic will be shifting operations to Spaceport America near the New Mexico town of Truth or Consequences as it prepares to begin for commercial service later this year.

While many fear the possibility of robots taking their job, a growing number of companies are putting AI-equipped machines to work in roles humans never wanted in the first place.

Researchers at Rutgers' Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine in New Jersey have identified a 'daywake' gene in fruit flies that suppresses the insect's urge to have a nap.

The search giant has launched 53 gender fluid emojis as part of its push to be 'more inclusive.' The gender fluid emoji have longer hair to make them appear neither male or female.

Ancient royal burial site of the Anglo-Saxon King Saebert is discovered

A royal burial site found beneath a roadside verge in Essex has been hailed as the 'British equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb'. Discovered between a pub and an Aldi supermarket in Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, in 2003 the relatively humble site clearly lacks the opulence of the famous pharaoh’s treasures. But it is thought to be the burial chamber of the brother of Anglo-Saxon King Saebert - a powerful prince who was among the first Anglo-Saxons to reject paganism in favour of Christianity. Archaeologists now believe it to be the earliest Christian royal tomb ever unearthed in the UK and a highly significant find. Pictured (clockwise from top right to bottom left): An artist's impression of the inside of the chamber; an archaeologist at the dig site; Conservator Claire Reed, inspecting the remains of a wooden drinking vessel; the mound under which the burial site was found.

Using giant lasers to flash freeze water, scientists say they have been able to observe the microscopic structure of the hybrid substance which acts like both a solid and a liquid.

Researchers led by Chinese Academy of Sciences geochemist Ning Wang used traces of carbon from nuclear bombs to study tiny marine crustaceans in the deepest parts of the ocean.

According to Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and CEO, the company will launch dozens of satellites next week as a demonstration for project Starlink.

A huge sink hole almost 100ft wide has swallowed a patch of land in Dorset next to a local walking path.

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 101 fish species and found that three lineages of deep-sea fish, living up to about a mile (1,500 meters) below the surface, boast a specialized visual system.

Amazon has admitted it doesn't really give Alexa users the ability to truly delete what they say to Echo devices as the data is saved in the cloud, according to reports.

The Cambridge-based research lab is being planned in response to fears that our current approaches to minimise greenhouse gas emission will not be enough.

Geologists at the University of Arkansas have discovered a living tree from 2,646 years ago along the ancient forest wetlands of the Black River Stream in North Carolina.

Spectacular photos taken by the Rosetta space probe

Newly-released images from the Rosetta space probe shows stunning views of the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is millions of miles away from Earth. The high-resolution images were captured by the Rosetta space probe which orbited the comet for more than two years, between 2014 and 2016. Pictured left, the comet. Top right, a close-up of the surface of the comet and bottom right, the planet Mars.

The Aldabra rail is a flightless bird which, around 136,000 years ago, was driven to extinction when its Madagascan island home was submerged beneath the ocean.

Two metal detectorists may have found the largest trove of Roman coins ever discovered in Britain. The copper alloy coins were found inside a ceramic pot in a rural field in Lincolnshire.

Research led by the Zoological Society of London reports that the expected increase in temperatures over the next 50 years means the virus will spread to virtually all of the UK.

Air pollution is as toxic to health as the chemicals in cigarettes, an expert said, as doctors have stated the public's health is in a state of emergency. The UK Government is being urged to act immediately.

The tool, called Ideas in Word, uses machine learning and Microsoft's Graph developer platform to make suggestions when it senses users might want to 'refine their writing.' It's slated to launch this fall.

In honour of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019, which is on Thursday, May 16 here are 11 innovations that are helping increase digital inclusion for people with disabilities

As a result of the probe, the internet giant has agreed to block the sale of these dangerous items, provided over $200,000 worth of refunds and has paid the Attorney General's office $700,000.

A new gadget called Bonocle by makers from Qatar lets blind people read digital content from a laptop, iPad or iPhone using a reader displaying Braille codes

Ford is using a 'Wall-E' lookalike self-driving robot that can avoid obstacles to ferry parts around its factory in Spain

The robot 'Survival' has been designed by Ford engineers and is being trialled in Spain. It can sense its environment and dodge obstacles with LiDAR technology and is made of a shelf that has 17 slots for different weights and size. Ford says around 40-employee hours a day are saved on mundane tasks because of Survival.

Instagram has struggled to beat back content promoting vaccination conspiracy theories, so it's taking new steps to prevent misinformation around this topic from spreading further.

A report from the Wall Street Journal has revealed the US is using a new dive-bombing 'missile' that kills targets without exploding. The weapon crushes targets with the help of large blades.

A map comparison by one Reddit user shows an unexpected connection between how Alabama voted in 2016 and what the state looked like millions of years ago.

Researchers at King's College London injected pigs with a gene which restarted the growth of specialised heart cells called cardiomyocytes, the majority of which are developed before birth.

The transition has long baffled scientists but now researchers at Northwestern University have discovered the exact enzyme and mechanism behind the reaction.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship launched from Cape Canaveral earlier this week and brought the algal experiment to the ISS where it will be put through its paces.

According to a report, Ever, which started in 2013 as a cloud-based app for storing and sharing photos, leveraged personal photos to develop and sell facial recognition software without consent.

The average American video gamer is 33 years old, prefers to play on their smartphone and is spending big on content -- 20 percent more than a year ago and 85 percent more than in 2015.

Ancestor species of modern humans and Neanderthals often dabbled in CANNIBALISM

Researchers from Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH) found remains with clear evidence human tooth marks, cuts and and fractures expose the marrow all found. Then they calculated the cost and the benefit of consuming other humans when compared with data for other prey. They found other animals had more calories per meal and per bite, but the ease and lack of effort needed to catch humans made it more energy efficient in the long run.

Scientific photographer and MIT Massachusetts expert Felice Frankel writes in a piece for the Conversation that images need to be interesting to engage a viewer in a scientific subject.

The researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found that the animals' droppings partly evaporate as ammonia which is then carried by the wind inland to create rich areas of biodiversity

Researchers from the American Chemical society examined how the compound tannin in wines interacted with salivary proteins and other compounds to influence the perception of dryness

Experts had known that modern-day Uralic language speakers typically share a common Siberian ancestry. However, when Siberian migrants arrived in the Baltic had been unclear.

Mechanical engineer Arindam Banerjee of Lehigh University in the US and colleagues study how materials act in extreme environments — which can call for creative substitutions.

A tour of the tunnels underneath the Italian city of Naples with various experts saying underground areas should be better utilised to help feed the world's growing population.

Pages from a confidential whistleblower's report obtained by The Associated Press are photographed Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Washington. Facebook likes to give the impression that it's stopping the vast majority of extremist posts before users ever see them., but the confidential whistleblower's complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges the social media company has exaggerated its success. Even worse, it shows that the company is making use of propaganda by militant groups to auto-generate videos and pages that could be used for networking by extremists. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

The video, auto-generated by the Mountain View-based firm, begins with a photo of the black jihadi flags and then flashes other unsettling images previously posted by the user over a year.

'It is time to break up Facebook,' Hughes, who was Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate, wrote in a searing op-ed on Thursday. 'Mark's power is unprecedented and un-American.'

Stunning decorations of a sphinx, centaur and panther revealed on the walls of the Domus

Archaeologists accessed the room of the Domus Aurea in Rome and found its walls adorned with panthers, centaurs and a mythical sphinx. Small figures are bordered in red and yellow on the walls, with a white background. One scene shows the god Pan, another a man armed with a sword, quiver of arrows and a shield fighting a panther while the sphinx image shows it on a pedestal. There are also aquatic creatures, both real and imagined, architectural motifs of the time, vegetal garlands and branches of trees with delicate green, yellow and red leaves.

The medical tech market is already worth £85 billion ($110 billion). The report predicts that death-delaying technologies will be one of the biggest investment areas over the next decade.

The method, developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, may eventually be a solution to the tide of plastic waste clogging up our oceans and landfills.

Researchers from University College London cross-referenced radiocarbon data from 1,400 South American sites with climate data and found decline correlated with erratic weather

Members of US Congress grilled space agency bosses over preparations for the 2024 missions and its failure to put forward a viable plan. Mike Pence announced in March the five-year deadline.

Robert Phillips was leading a project to remove a four-foot long stone core from one of the standing stones. He kept it in his possession and it took pride of place in his Florida office.

Researchers led by the University of Bristol flew 50 sorties over 10 days, during a two-week expedition spending a total of 24 hours in the air to map an area of six square miles.

WhatsApp have announced that the popular messaging app will stop working on all Microsoft's Windows smartphones worldwide by December 2019 in a blog post.

Playing with robot pets increases social interaction with care home residents, family members and staff, researchers from the University of Exeter in Devon found.

Ancient polish grave reveals men returned from a hunting trip to find women and children

A prehistoric burial site reveals the brutal massacre of an extended family of women and children who lived near the modern day village of Koszyce in Poland 4,800 years ago (left). Scientists reconstructed the remains (right) based on the relationships between the remains. A middle-aged woman was placed next to her two young sons and a 30-to 35-year-old mother was laid to rest alongside her teenage daughter and five-year-old son. It remains unknown why there are so many men disproportionately absent from the grave, but it is speculated a large group may have been away hunting or farming. A plethora of goods was also found at the site, indicating the people belonged to the Globular Amphora culture.

About 30 researchers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Norway, Spain and Ukraine recently presented the latest results of work in Chernobyl, revealing great biodiversity.

According to researchers , the technology, which mimics a process of carbon being absorbed by basalt rock that usually takes place over thousands of years, could help clean the atmosphere

While most law enforcement agencies are focused on mitigating the impact of the dark web, the CIA will attempt to use the anonymous network in a novel attempt to solicit tips and information.

A women's sex toy startup has been re-awarded the robotics prize from organizers of the annual CES gadget show after they revoked it, claiming the firm had violated its rules.

Amazon suffered a fraud attack with hackers stealing funds for over six months in 2018. The 'extensive' fraud involved hackers breaking into roughly 100 merchant accounts.

Researchers looked at tree growth, mortality and planting rates both among trees in Boston city and forests in rural Massachusetts.

A fossil thought to be the direct ancestor to the homo genus has been all but ruled out by scientists who say the statistical probability of a match is 'close to zero.'

The Shang dynasty ruled over the Yellow River Valley in the centre of China between around 1600 and 1046 BC and commonly undertook ritual human and animal sacrifices.

At-home genetic test traces Montana man's family history back 55 GENERATIONS to ancient

In a report from the Great Falls Tribune, Alvin 'Willy' Crawford's DNA was traced back 55 generations with a shocking 99 percent accuracy, making his lineage the longest ever traced by the ancestry testing company, CRI Genetics. Though Crawford believed his ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge, results show they traveled north from South America. From left to right: Alvin's brother, Darrell Crawford, map of the Bering Land Bridge

Data from the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory found that every school in the capital is over the WHO limit of 10mg of PM2.5 per cubic metre.

The U.S. Department of Energy has signed a contract with Cray Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to build a machine 50 times faster than current supercomputers.

Thanks to InSight’s meteorological sensors, scientists have now obtained the first ever measurements of the interactions between dust and wind on Mars as they happen.

As part of the new appeals process, users will be able to contest the decision to have their post removed and it may be sent to another Instagram employee for further review.

Seattle-based Amazon's smart assistants are now commonplace in many homes around the world but many users remain unaware of the treasure trove of private data they store.

Google's privacy doctrine breaks down how its devices collect data and pledges to be more transparent about how users can control what information is stored about them.

Scientists from the University of Waterloo in Canada have designed fuel cells lasting up to 11.8 times longer that could make them commercially viable when mass produced for hybrid cars.

A newly-discovered fossil which was unearthed in China gives an insight into the origins of avian flight. The specimen had bat-like, membrane wings which was previously unseen among theropods.

Incredible £2,500 gloves used by Ariana Grande which transform hand gestures into complex musical compositions will be released in July

Gloves that can transform hand movements into music are available now to pre-order. English songwriter Imogen Heap, left, spearheaded the project which she came up with a decade ago. Wearers can perform drum beats with the beat of a fist or the flick of a wrist along with vocal fades and whole string ensembles. Only a handful of specially selected musicians have had access to the technology until now including pop star Ariana Grande, right, who performed wearing the gloves on her 2015 world tour.

A German team has identified the substances that make up chocolate's heavenly aroma - opening the door to unique 'designer chocolates'.

Researchers from Bristol University have estimated that YouTube's annual carbon footprint amounts to 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year but they could reduce this by tweaking a feature.

Google's Map AR feature for Pixel, launched at the firm's annual conference in California, lets users see real time directions overlaid on their smartphone camera's view of their surroundings.

Each of the red dots on the map represents one 'fire detection' event in the UK, spotted between January 1 and April 30 this year by NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.

University of Stockholm scientists looked at a database of IQ scores of all Swedish men born between 1951 and 1967 and found clever men are more fertile and have more children than others.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analysed data for more than 34,000 men and women aged 16 to 44 to make the finding.

More than 7,000 developers are expected to attend Google's annual conference in California, where CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to showcase much-anticipated updates to its AI systems

A global market research report from US intelligence firm Tractica shows that automation in the global construction industry will be in full swing by the middle of the next century.

First 'deepfake' AI that can replicate people moving creates footage of crowds of imaginary humans that are indistinguishable from the real thing

The pair of AIs that drew up the fake humans in the above footage were developed by DataGrid, a start-up based at the Kyoto University in Japan. Having previously created an AI that could generate realistic-looking facial images, the company's scientists have turned their sights on developing algorithms that can model an entire human body, and animate it.

Experts have long worried that the non-native Spanish bluebell, which escapes from urban gardens into woodland, would kill off our native plants. But a study found the Spanish is less fertile.

Scientists from the University of Michigan in the US have found wasps are first insects to use a form of reasoning called transitive inference.

According to a letter sent by the FTC to Ukraine-based Wildec LLC, which owns FastMeet, Meet24 and Meet4U, the trio of dating apps allowed children as young as 12 to communicate with adults.

CEO Sundar Pichai took to the stage at the company's annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday and spoke at length about how Google is rolling out more robust features around securing user data.

Duat Mai stands atop a dead whale at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, Monday, May 6, 2019. The Marine Mammal Center plans a necropsy to determine what killed the animal. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

The whale found Monday on Ocean Beach was the ninth discovered in the San Francisco Bay Area since March. A necropsy conducted by the Marine Mammal center indicates it was struck by a ship.

Researchers from the North Carolina State University found that a curriculum designed to raise climate change awareness in parents through their children was particularly effective

The first ever artwork to be sent into orbit is now lost in space. According to the Nevada Museum of Art, the piece is still in its CubeSat after the shutdown meant they lost communication with it.

Thousands of Bitcoin were stolen (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

The Japan-based exchange's chief executive Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, said the transaction represented 'about 2%' of Binance's total Bitcoin holdings.

Balloon self-inflates after it's removed from liquid nitrogen and gases inside the warming rubber begin to expand 

Fascinating footage shows a balloon re-inflate after being shrunk in liquid nitrogen in a lab in Florida. When taken out of the tub it starts to expand rapidly back to its original size and shape. When balloons are dipped into freezing liquid nitrogen, it causes them to shrivel up because the gases inside shrink. When allowed to reach higher temperatures, they re-inflate and are brought back to their original state

Researchers from the University of Antwerp have suggested that microgravity can cause the ventricles in astronauts' brains to slightly expand because the fluid is being pushed upwards.

Before the screen issues came to light, Samsung's troubled smartphone was originally intended for release in the US on April 26, and then in the UK on May 3.

The 'canoe', which has now been removed from the site near Caernarfon for further examination, would be the first prehistoric canoe ever found in north Wales.

Zoologists at the Field Museum, Chicago, analysed historical records to discover what leads lions to hunt porcupines and what happens when they engage in fighting

Users can now add photos, GIFs or videos to their retweets. Before the announcement, users would have to reply to or compose a new tweet in order to add interactive media.

Amazon launched its high-tech Go convenience store a year ago, where shoppers can pull items off the shelf and walk out. Now it's adding a decidedly low-tech feature: accepting cash.

Conservation scientists from around the world convened in Paris to issue the United Nations' (UN) first comprehensive report on biodiversity, which exceeded 1,000 pages.

A new computer model suggest that a tectonic plate in the Atlantic Ocean is starting a process that could shrink the ocean and send Europe on a slow procession towards Canada.

South Americans were taking cocaine and hallucinogenic drugs a THOUSAND YEARS ago

A research team was searching for ancient occupations in the dry rock shelters of the now-dry Sora River valley in south western Bolivia when they found a ritual bundle as part of a human burial. The bundle - bound in a leather bag - contained, among other things, two snuffing tablets used to pulverise psychotropic plants into snuff, a snuffing tube - for smoking hallucinogenic plants, and a pouch made of three fox snouts.

The Toronto-based Quayside development would harbour all kinds of data-driven futuristic conveniences, with self-driving taxis, and automated waste collection.

Researchers from Princeton say investing in climate change makes returns today and in the future, particularly for countries like China an India where death rates from pollution are highest.

Oxford study claims online activity only has a 'trivial' effect on teenager's happiness, flying in the face of research and the prevailing opinion of many parents.

The National Grid said the figures reflect a growing trend towards the use of renewable energy sources such as solar panels, which are being installed at homes in greater numbers than ever before.

When an image is flagged, it'll be sent to the same dashboard that Facebook's fact-checking groups view to pick up on misinformation, enabling them to quickly demote false photos and memes.

To help shed light on the phenomenon, researchers chose to focus in on an unlikely topic: the popular 90's video and card game franchise, Pokémon.

A new analysis of the risks faced by the 8,000 or so known amphibian species has found that up to 50 percent may be at risk of extinction, in a dramatic rise from earlier estimates.

The firm has pledged transparent and 'unrestricted' support for science, but University of Cambridge researchers found legal clauses that allow the firm to pull work before it's over.

Incredible footage of the universe combines 7,500 images of galaxies up to 13.3 billion

Researchers from various teams including Yale and the University of California-Santa Cruz created the Hubble Legacy Field which includes 265,000 galaxies dating back 13.3 billion years. The mosaic image (left) of nearly 7,500 photos shows ancient galaxies formed only 500 million years after the big bang. Looking deeper into space means looking earlier into the universe's history. The farthest galaxies are 1 in 10 billionth of the brightness that our naked eyes can detect and the zoomed out video (right) puts this distance into perspective.

Dr Sterling Nesbitt, an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Tech College of Science, is behind the research.

In the Seventies, only 10 per cent of the population had hayfever, but these days around 30 per cent of adults and 40 per cent of children are affected in the UK.

The tech giant is slated to host its annual Worldwide Developer Conference next month, where it's expected to take the wraps off of iOS 13, as well as the latest versions of macOS and watchOS.

Microsoft's annual Build developers conference started off with a bang, albeit perhaps not how the firm had intended, after an elaborate HoloLens demonstration failed with great fanfare.

According to a complaint from Spotify, Apple has unfairly used the popularity its platform, which includes it's operating system, iOS, and its App Store, to put companies at a disadvantage.

Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad, India has ploughed through millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014.

According to Korean outlet, MyDrivers, Samsung's new handset, which will place cameras and sensors beneath the display making it almost entirely edge-to-edge, is under development.

A team of scientists from the University of New South Wales developed a method to obtain the centuries-long seasonal record using coral cores – a feat previously thought to be impossible.

Watch the sunrise from MARS: NASA's InSight rover takes incredible images of the sun rising and setting on the red planet 

NASA's InSight lander has shown off its photography skills by taking pictures of the Mars horizon's sunrise and sunset with its robotic arm. The lander had taken some practice shots in March. According to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who operate the NASA mission, one version of each of these images comes in 'raw' form. The colour-corrected version looks an eerie blue colour, which is how humans would see the sunrises and sunsets on Mars.

Academics in Italy scrutinised a red chalk portrait by artist Giovan Ambrogio Figino. The portrait revealed da Vinci with his right hand in an unusual position.

Alphabet Inc's Google is set to roll out a dashboard-like function in its Chrome browser to offer users more control in fending off tracking cookies, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health found children whose mothers ate three 30g servings of nuts a week scored better on cognitive function and memory tests.

Black salve is a remedy claimed to cure warts, boils and skin cancers, but actually destroys flesh, experts warn, and leaves people disfigured (pictured, Kelly from US TV show Botched).

Researchers at University College London say the immune system is able to tell if the cell is harmful or friendly by making holes in them. The findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.

For this study, a research team from Friedrich Schiller University conducted a series of experiments in which experienced players were shown video clips of rallies from a professional match.

Astrophysicists from Newcastle University, has led a team for five years, creating simulations of the stars to determine what it is that gives their surface its appearance.

The FCC is warning about the rise of 'one ring' scams. A telltale sign is that users' phones will ring once and the caller will hang up without leaving a voicemail, tricking the user into calling them back.

Touchdown! Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin nails two smooth landings as its New Shepard rocket booster AND capsule return to Earth after 11th test flight

The firm’s reusable New Shepard rocket lifted off from the West Texas launch site shortly after 9:30 a.m. (EDT) Thursday morning and climbed to an altitude of roughly 346,000 feet before returning back to Earth. It touched back down in a 'nice soft landing,' marking the fifth time this particular New Shepard booster has gone to space and back. The capsule, which separated prior to apogee and briefly allowed the on-board payloads to experience 'some nice, clean microgravity,' deployed its parachutes and landed not long after.

The BBC is developing a voice-activated electronic assistant in an attempt to rival Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri. Currently dubbed 'Auntie', the assistant would be free to download in the UK.

Researchers led by the University of Oxford say ash dieback is estimated to cost Britain a third more than the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in 2001.

Hate preachers like the Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi – spiritual leader of the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik – spread anti-Christian rhetoric to thousands of followers on Facebook.

Sweden's Civil Contingencies Agency has issued guidance to every household telling residents to stockpile 'cash in small denominations' for use in emergencies.

Researchers tested six headphones – PuroSound, LilGadgets, Snuggly Rascals, Peppa Pig, JVC Tinyphones and Kidz Gear. he investigation by Supershoppers airs on Channel 4 on Monday.

Spotify is jumping into the voice technology game. The streaming platform is testing voice-controlled advertisements for some users in the U.S., it revealed on a call with investors this week.

We've all experienced the moment when we’ve gone into a shop, clean forgotten what we were meant to be buying – and picked up something we didn’t even need instead.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Space-X Dragon capsule, launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.

Seven wonders of the Ancient World brought back to life in stunning 3D reconstructions

Only one of the original seven survives today, the Great Pyramid of Giza (bottom left), with the others lost over time as a consequence of war, crumbling civilisations and natural disasters. The Colossus of Rhodes (top left) was a staggering feat of engineering and building and the statue towered 100 feet (32 metres) above the harbour in Rhodes. Statue of Zeus at Olympia (top right) was built on top of a wooden frame and throne - ensuring its long-term demise. It would have been destroyed in 426AD in a fire at Constantinople.The Lighthouse of Alexandria (bottom right) set the bar high for all others built and was built a burning fire atop a cylindrical tower, atop an octagonal middle, atop a square base.

NASA is investigating how best to respond to the possibility of an asteroid or a comet colliding with Earth in fictional situations.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket successfully took its second flight ever on Thursday afternoon, when it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center carrying Lockheed Martin's Arabsat 6A satellite.

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.

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.

The research from the consumer watchdog Which? comes as the UK prepares for the London Marathon this weekend and found the Garmin's Vivosmart 4 was named the least reliable.

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.

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 5, 2015 file photo, rush hour traffic fills the 6 October bridge over the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. Uber is launching a new minibus service on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in traffic-mad Cairo, Egypt's capital and the ride-sharing U.S. giant's fastest-growing market. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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.

Dr Dombard and his colleagues presented a possible solution to this problem at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, DC, this week.

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.

Passengers could receive their Amazon deliveries on HS2 trains, a manufacturer has claimed (HS2/PA)

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.

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.

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 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.

This combination of images provided by NASA shows a series of photographs made by the New Horizons spacecraft as it approached the Kuiper belt object Ultima Thule on Jan. 1, 2019. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP)

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.

This illustration provided by Carbon Engineering in October 2018 shows one of the designs of the company's air contactor assemblies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon Engineering acting chief scientist David Keith, a Harvard University professor, said "in the long-term, carbon removal will make sense to reduce atmospheric carbon burden, but only once emissions have been brought near zero. The idea that humanity might continue huge fossil emissions while simultaneously balancing them with removal is nutty _ you plug the leaks before bailing the boat." (Carbon Engineering via AP)

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.

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.

       

All around the world... and beyond

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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All around the world... and beyond

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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