The Starliner capsule went off course into the wrong orbit just minutes after blasting off on its first test flight - a crucial dress rehearsal for next year's inaugural launch with astronauts. Everything appeared to go flawlessly as the Starliner launched from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket at 06:36 ET (11:36 GMT) this morning. But half an hour into the flight, Boeing reported that the capsule didn't get into the position needed to get it to the International Space Station.
Bones of baby dinosaurs that weighed just 7oz and died before they hatched from their eggs 100 million years ago are found in Australia
A smattering of tiny prehistoric bones (inset) have been found by researchers throughout parts of Australia, which are the first baby dinosaurs discovered in the country.The small bones probably belonged to a small-bodied ornithopod species (main), a two-legged herbivore species weighing up to 44lbs (20kg) when fully-grown. Because the dinosaur remains were so small - weighing only as much as a cup of water - the researchers think most never emerged from their eggs.
REVEALED: The tiny autonomous robotic insect weighing less than one gram that can carry five times its weight and withstand multiple heavy hits from a fly swatter
DEAnsect' is an insect-like robot made of soft materials, carries five times its weight and moves its artificial muscles 400 times a second. What makes this creation so unique that it is able to withstand multiple hits from a fly swatter, being folded or squashed without being damaged - making this robot design ideal for performing various tasks.
Critically-endangered 'monkey tree frog' that walks instead of jumping thanks to its 'human-like' opposable thumbs discovered in Brazil
Brazilian researchers have uncovered a rare 'monkey' tree frog that walks rather than hops because of its opposable thumbs, which allow it to grip objects. The creature was filmed crawling carefully up a researcher's hand. The ability to 'walk' is rare among frogs and the researchers are promoting awareness of the importance of this endangered species.
Tesla has just ONE more vehicle to unveil from the second part of Elon Musk's 'super secret Master Plan', to be used for urban public transport running through specially designed tunnels
Telsa has closely followed a 'Master Plan' written by CEO Elon Musk over the past 14 years and has unveiled all of the vehicles on the list, except for one - a 'high passenger-density urban transport'. According to images released by Tesla, the 'bus-like' vehicle would run people around a city at maximum speeds of 124 miles per hour. The design would be mostly glass and inside seating for passengers.
Archaeologists uncover two Bronze Age 'royal' tombs lined with GOLD that promise to unlock secrets about life in ancient Greece 3,500 years ago
American archaeologists have discovered two monumental royal tombs (left) dating from about 3,500 years ago near a major Mycenaean-era palace in Greece's southern Peloponnese region, the Greek culture ministry said on Tuesday. The finds include a golden seal ring (top right) and a golden amulet (bottom right) of an ancient Egyptian goddess, highlighting Bronze Age trade and cultural links.
Second time lucky! European Space Agency's Cheops satellite successfully launches to hunt for habitable planets after first effort failed
The three-year mission known as Characterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) blasted off from Kourou, French Guiana at 08:54 GMT (3:54 a.m. EST).
Meerkats stiffen their tails and puff out their fur in a 'war dance' to frighten off rival mobs and protect their territory, study reveals
Meerkats put on a fierce show and dance to fend off potential threats (top right), a new study has found following observations of meerkat groups for more than a decade. Meerkats live in stable and highly social groups that display high levels of cooperation (main image), but their behaviour is starkly different in the face of rivals, often performing the unusual dance and sometimes engaging in deadly fights (bottom left).
Autonomous helicopter startup Skyryse shows off its self-flying chopper that uses 'air taxi' tech to turn the craft into a giant drone
Though Skyryse is far from the only company looking to automate flying, it claims a unique advantage over competitors that allows technology to be overlaid on non-autonomous helicopters. In its recently released demo, Skyryse shows its technology operating a Robinson R-44 - a Federal Aviation Administration-approved helicopter - while two safety pilots stand by in the cockpit.
- Boeing software glitch sends Starliner crew capsule into the wrong orbit minutes into its first test flight and it WON'T reach the ISS in major setback for NASA's astronaut taxi service
- Bones of baby dinosaurs that weighed just 7oz and died before they hatched from their eggs 100 million years ago are found in Australia
- Scientists discover fish that can use their fins as FEET 3,000-feet below the surface of the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico
- New species of 'titi monkey' is discovered in Brazil plateau after deforestation drives them out of their natural habitat
- The Long and Winding Roe: British scientists capture the sounds of fish 'singing' underwater for the first time and dub it over a Christmas tune at Abbey Road
- Motorola DELAYS release of its $1,500 reinvented razr with folding display until January as it struggles to cope with unprecedented demand from excited customers
- REVEALED: The tiny autonomous robotic insect weighing less than one gram that can carry five times its weight and withstand multiple heavy hits from a fly swatter
- Futuristic new e-motorbike uses a lightweight ultracapacitor that allows it to harvest up to 90 percent of its braking energy - but the prototype won't ever be sold
- 'Bionic' woman gets implants in her body to open doors, send business cards and GLOW after a car crash broke her back, ankles and knees
- Ditching fossil fuels globally and using just wind, water and solar will cost £73TRILLION but would slash power demand by more than HALF and save 63,000 lives a year from air pollution
- Apple is developing a 'secret plan' to build and put its own satellites into space and bypass traditional carriers to beam data directly to its own customers' devices
- Critically-endangered 'monkey tree frog' that walks instead of jumping thanks to its 'human-like' opposable thumbs discovered in Brazil
- Families that eat out at restaurants and consume large amounts of sweets and alcohol are likely to have a higher carbon footprint than MEAT eaters, study claims
- NASA releases defiant video outlining details of Artemis moon mission despite US government only agreeing to provide HALF the funding needed for 2024 lunar lander
- Twitter has banned almost 6,000 Saudi 'state-backed accounts' just weeks after two employees were charged by the Justice Department for spying for the country
- More than 50,000 homes are stuck with mediocre broadband and 4G despite a sharp national increase in access to faster connections, says Ofcom
- Tesla has just ONE more vehicle to unveil from the second part of Elon Musk's 'super secret Master Plan', to be used for urban public transport running through specially designed tunnels
- How obesity is harming the planet: Overweight people generate an extra 700 MILLION tons of carbon dioxide a year, US study claims
- Boeing software glitch sends Starliner crew capsule into the wrong orbit minutes into its first test flight and it WON'T reach the ISS in major setback for NASA's astronaut taxi service
- Men are twice as likely as women to consider themselves good liars - and they prefer to lie to your face
- 'Bionic' woman gets implants in her body to open doors, send business cards and GLOW after a car crash broke her back, ankles and knees
- Futuristic new e-motorbike uses a lightweight ultracapacitor that allows it to harvest up to 90 percent of its braking energy - but the prototype won't ever be sold
- Bones of baby dinosaurs that weighed just 7oz and died before they hatched from their eggs 100 million years ago are found in Australia
- Scientists discover fish that can use their fins as FEET 3,000-feet below the surface of the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico
- The Long and Winding Roe: British scientists capture the sounds of fish 'singing' underwater for the first time and dub it over a Christmas tune at Abbey Road
- Eleven skeletons found in 1,000-year-old Moche grave in Peru include people with mutilated feet, stained skulls and 'a religious leader buried in a roofed chamber'
- Motorola DELAYS release of its $1,500 reinvented razr with folding display until January as it struggles to cope with unprecedented demand from excited customers
- NASA releases defiant video outlining details of Artemis moon mission despite US government only agreeing to provide HALF the funding needed for 2024 lunar lander
- New species of 'titi monkey' is discovered in Brazil plateau after deforestation drives them out of their natural habitat
- Apple is developing a 'secret plan' to build and put its own satellites into space and bypass traditional carriers to beam data directly to its own customers' devices
- Mysterious rise in banned CFC gas emissions from China could delay the healing of the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic by almost 20 years
- Families that eat out at restaurants and consume large amounts of sweets and alcohol are likely to have a higher carbon footprint than MEAT eaters, study claims
- Samsung patent reveals company may be working on new Galaxy Buds with TRIPLE the battery life
- Ditching fossil fuels globally and using just wind, water and solar will cost £73TRILLION but would slash power demand by more than HALF and save 63,000 lives a year from air pollution
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DNA analysis of ancient birch 'chewing gum' reveals it was chomped by a Danish hunter-gatherer with dark skin and blue eyes who dined on duck and hazelnuts 5,700 years ago
The chewed birch pitch gum (right) was found during archaeological excavations at Syltholm, east of Rodbyhavn in southern Denmark. Analysis of the gum marks the first time ever that scientists have obtained the full genome of an ancient human without their bones. The genes revealed the person (left) was probably a woman and likely had dark skin, dark hair and blue eyes who had a diet of duck and hazelnuts. Closely-related to hunter-gatherers from mainland Europe, she would have looked different to the native Scandinavians of the time.
Say goodbye to comfort breaks! New downward-tilting toilets are designed to force users into a 'squat-thrust' so workers spend less time on the loo
Staffordshire-based company StandardToilet says it has already had interest from local councils and motorway service stations for the £150 - £500 toilets. They hope to sell to offices and shopping centres. The seat is sloped forward by about 13 degrees to increase strain on the legs similar to a gentle squat thrust - as seen in this graphic - according to developer Mahabir Gill.
Dog walker discovers a 65 million-year-old 'ichthyosaur' skeleton on a beach in Somerset after his pets sniffed it out when it was left exposed by recent storms
A dog walker and amateur archaeologist was amazed when his pooches (top left) led him over to a five-foot-long fossil on a Somerset beach at the weekend (main and right). Jon Gopsill, 54, believes the remains belong to an ichthyosaur, a group of marine reptile similar to the modern-day dolphin (bottom left).
Horrific scale of wildfires in 2019 laid bare in a shocking video that maps all the blazes across the planet throughout the year
Fast-paced fires torched vast swathes of land and people were forced to evacuate as thousands of animals perished, including in California, Indonesia and Australia. Throughout the 92-second clip the fires can be seen terrorising the world, with daily fire radiative power represented in watts per square metre. The seasons saw wildfires across different regions of the world, with most continents besieged with flames.
Mystery of Easter Island's Moai is finally solved: Giant stone monoliths DID help food grow on the land by replenishing the soil with nutrients
Soils in the quarry were already thought to be the richest on the entire Polynesian island thanks to a fresh water supply and was enriched by nutrients unearthed by mining of the bedrock. Rano Raruko quarry (inset) was where 90 per cent of all the heads on the island were made and the carving process itself enriched the land, a new study has found. Creating hundreds of Moai (left, right) replenished the soil with nutrients from the bedrock which worked alongside fresh water supplies to fertilise the land.
Not croaked after all! Lost 'starry night' harlequin toad that was thought to be on the verge of extinction for 30 years is 'rediscovered' in the mountains of Colombia
The toad (left and top right), whose proper name is 'Atelopus arsyecue', has not been comprehensively studied in 30 years, because biologists have not been able to access its small habitat on Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range. The land is sacred to the indigenous Arhuaco community of Sogrome, so they have prevented scientists from carrying out investigations there - until now (bottom right).
Xbox FINALLY reveals its next game console called the 'Series X' after months of 'Project Scarlet' mystery - and says it will be released next year
The new console was unveiled in a video from Microsoft at The Game Awards 2019 in Los Angeles. It ends six months of purgatory for avid gamers, following the tantalising announcement of 'Project Scarlett' in the summer. A price was not revealed for the cuboid console (left, top right) but it was stated that the console will be available to buy in late 2020. It will launch with two playable games, at least. Halo infinite (bottom right) will be accompanied by Senua's Saga: Hellblade II.
Incredible time-lapse shows the Earth being drained of water: NASA data shows how islands appear from the oceans before it all dries up
Nearly 70% of the Earth is covered with oceans, but an animation reveals what our planet would look like if they all disappeared -with most land becoming visible at a decrease in sea level of 459 feet. The central area of the ocean begins to appear at depths of 6,500 feet, at around 13,00 feet (top right) all of the water around the continents has disappeared and by 19,685 feet (bottom right), all of the sea water has drained -except for areas with deep sea trenches.
Thousands of 'penis-fish' are washed onto a California beach after storm pulled them from their underwater burrows
Thousands of 'penis-fish' were found on a California beach after a strong storm ripped through the area and pulled them from their underwater homes - leaving them exposed to predators. Formally known as fat innkeeper worm, this 10-inch marine creature looks like a 'pink sausage' and creates U-shaped burrows in mud or sand that it leaves behind for other creatures to move in - hence its name 'innkeeper'.
Jimi Hendrix is NOT to blame for Britain's plague of 170,000 parakeets: Scientists finally dispel urban legend by tracing historical sightings of the bright birds back to the 1800s
Striking ring-necked parakeets (left), the tropical green birds which now terrorise London neighbourhoods, have been sighted for decades and likely due to repeated releases, scientists say. Urban legend has a range of outlandish theories for the origin of Britain's parakeets, including Jimi Hendrix (inset, top left), Humphrey Bogart's 'The African Queen' (inset, right),and a break-in at George Michael's London home. But these have all been discredited by a new study which says the likely explanation is actually repeated releases and introductions, as well as being boosted by escapes from British bird houses damaged in the Great Storm of 1987. Experts tracked thousands of sightings and created a 'crime map' (right) to reveal their presence and suspect many parakeets that were kept as pets were released en masse after an outbreak of 'parrot fever' in 1929, 1930 and 1952, as newspaper articles urged the public to stay away from the 'dangerous birds'.
'Pooper-scooper' robot autonomously detects and cleans up your dog's mess using cameras and sensors
A firm has designed a robot that finds, detects and automatically scoops up what your canine friend left behind. Beetl is equip with sensors and front cameras to hunt down dog poop. Once the robot spots feces within your yard, it moves directly over it and uses a mechanical claw as a scoop.
Kiss me squeak: Orangutans communicate using a 'language' of 11 noises and various gestures to tell others to 'climb on me', 'stop that' and 'move away', study finds
Researchers from the University of Exeter recorded more than 1,000 signals between 16 orangutans and deciphered their meaning. Various sounds - including a 'kiss squeak', 'raspberry' and a 'gorkum' - have clearly defined meanings which are understood by the apes. A 'language' of 11 vocal signals and 21 'physical gestures' were spotted from video footage of 16 orangutans (main, inset right) (seven mother-child pairs and a pair of siblings). A grand total of 1,299 communicative signals - 858 vocal signals and 441 gestures - were seen, allowing the researchers to discern what they meant.
Scientists warn New Zealand's devastating White Island volcano eruption could trigger deadly landslides and TSUNAMIS as they brand tourist trips there 'a disaster waiting to happen'
Ash belching out from Volcano Whakaari could trigger a downpour of rain, which in turn could cause unstable rock to be washed down the sides of the volcano in a landslide. This could have potentially fatal consequences for both rescue workers and the tourists who are still on the island. If this rock reaches the ocean and plunges into the water, it could trigger a tsunami, resulting in further catastrophe.
'Ghost ship' of Sutton Hoo to sail again: Anglo-Saxon vessel found in Suffolk 80 years ago will be rebuilt from 3D computer models to explore the origins of English seafaring
In its Suffolk-based burial mound - thought the resting place of King Rædwald (top right, with his ceremonial helmet shown inset) - only the impression of the ship and its iron rivets remained, the timber having long rotted away. Nevertheless, a team of archaeologists and shipbuilders have succeeded in creating a three-dimensional digital mock-up of the vessel (left) to allow it to begin to be reconstructed (bottom right).