The meme-like item is a unique mount, perhaps worn as a badge, depicting a knight stepping out of a snail shell that appears to be mounted on the back of a goat (left). Experts said that the use of the snail is symbolic of cowardice and that the item may have been a parody of the unchivalrous behaviour of some knights, or an enemy. Pictured: top right, a counter-seal depicting an elephant carrying a howdah and, bottom right, an decorated pair of Iron Age tweezers.
From a sample of more than 20,000 dogs, Pugs, Beagles and Golden Retrievers were the breeds at greatest risk of obesity compared with crossbreeds, Royal Veterinary College reveals. Owners of these breeds must be 'especially vigilant' to protect their dogs from piling on weight, RVC says, by avoiding excessive treats and giving them lots of exercise.
The work found that only between 10 and 20 per cent of species have been identified by scientists, mostly likely in Brazil, Indonesia and Madagascar.
The find - a national first - was revealed as part of excavations of Mastaura, an ancient city in Aydin Province. The arena has partly buried and hidden by vegetation.
In the study, researchers from the University of Granada set out to determine whether or not caffeine actually does increase oxidation, or 'burning', of fat during exercise.
Harvard University experts will send a large balloon 12 miles above the Swedish town of Kiruna and have it drop 2kg of chalk dust into the stratosphere.
A Neanderthal premolar (top right) and wisdom tooth (left) discovered in southern Poland's Stajnia Cave that show signs their owners repeatedly used a toothpick-like implement, perhaps a bone or twig. Similar marks found on teeth in other parts of Europe suggest the practice was widespread, perhaps even learned, and furthers our understanding of our hominid ancestors' complex culture. The findings reveal that Neanderthals practiced dental hygiene more than 46,000 years ago.
Rancho Mirage in California will soon be home to teh world's first 3D-printed neighborhood that will feature 15 homes. The $15 million project will use Might Building's robotics and automation.
It can take us from 48 hours to a whole week to adjust to the change, and experts have identified a raft of health risks during these seven days.
Archaeologists uncovered evidence of a fort from 1634 in St Mary's City, Maryland, one of the first permanent English settlements in the New World, including fence posts and cannonballs.
The National Weather Service released an upgraded model that combines a global wave model with the ability to capture the atmosphere up to 50 miles to predict events two weeks out.
An 'abnormally' dry winter has put a damper on California's highly anticipated super bloom in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (left)) that sees fields swathed with colorful flowers - just as it was this time last year (right). The lack of rain has only produced pockets of flowers in areas, along with annual blooming shrubs. However, an unexpected rainstorm hit last week that officials say could be a 'game-changer.' About about a quarter-inch of rain fell that could be enough for flowers to emerge in three to six weeks.
Researchers have found evidence for decreased stress and annoyance and lower stress, improved mood and enhanced cognitive performance after people listen to natural sounds.
DoorDash partnered with Vault Health and Everylywell to delivery at-home COVID-19 tests. Everlywell offers nasal swab kits, while Vault Health's takes saliva samples.
The team found that the higher consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with an increased risk of heart disease and it gets worse the more you eat.
Researchers tested Viagra on men with coronary artery disease - a condition that causes the heart's blood supply to be blocked by a build-up of fatty substances in the coronary arteries.
The actor will become the first person to have their life story captured by Los Angeles-based StoryFile's conversational, interactive AI-powered video technology. The announcement today has been timed to coincide with Mr Shatner's 90th birthday, with his StoryFile conversation available to view on devices from May. Pictured, bottom right: Mr Shatner in his iconic role as Captain Kirk, with co-stars Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock, left) and DeForest Kelley (Leonard 'Bones' McCoy, right).
Mount Vesuvius engulfed Pompeii in a deadly cloud of volcanic ash and carbon dioxide for nearly 20 minutes, according to a new report that found thousands died withing 15 minutes of the blast.
Using a 30-year dataset of deep water temperature measurements, the study found that Lake Michigan is warming as much as 0.06C per decade and is a due to prolonged summer weather.
The finding turns previous theories that it was linked to the liver upside down, and scientists believe it holds the key to combating binge drinking and alcoholism.
Vets have detected the Kent variant B117 in a small number of dogs and cats with myocarditis - inflammation of the heart muscle.
Whales is the world's largest animal, but 50 million years ago it walked on land with four legs. A 48-million-year-old fossil of an Indohyus shows similarities in skull and ear bone structure.The fossilized skull also had a bone over the middle-ear space, which is also found in cetaceans. And the eye sockets sat towards the top of the Indohyus' head - just like the placement of a whale's eyes. Indohyus spent much of its time in water feasting on vegetation, but over time it abandoned the land for a fully aquatic lifestyle.
The NHS is about to trial a new tool that surveys genetic biomarkers in patients to assess their risk of heart disease. It will be tested on 1,000 patients in northeast England.
Heavy rainfall in southern Greece led to the discovery of the bronze figurine which was found intact after an archaeologist spotted a horn poking out of the ground.
The debris shield, covering the small helicopter, was discarded by Perseverance on Sunday, revealing Ingenuity tucked up and stowed sideways under the vehicle.
The finding by researchers from California follows multiple reports that men are at a higher risk of severe illness and death from coronavirus than women.
UK animal charity Blue Cross is urging the country's dog owners to be on the lookout for subtle signs of stress from their pet dogs. Subtle signs of stress that an owner can miss include excessive panting, pacing back and forth, licking their lips when not eating or drinking and pinning their ears back.
Researchers witnessed two such adoptions among groups of the endangered great ape living in a reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The apes were seen carrying, grooming, nursing and nesting with their adoptive infants for periods lasting more than 12 and 18 months, respectively.
EXCLUSIVE: Tech insider Sam Gilbert says Musk has filled the void left behind by former US president Donald Trump as Twitter's most divisive celebrity.
In the study, researchers from the University of Montreal and Stanford University aimed to look at the effects of harsh parenting on children's brains.
A shipwreck has emerged from a sandy grave along Michigan Lake every few years, but its latest appearance allowed experts to identify it as the Contest that transported good along the large lake.
Alaska is home to some of the world's largest glaciers that weigh thousands of pounds. The ice sinks land beneath, but as it melts the ground quickly rebounds and causes plates to grind pass each other.
A stunning blue woolly mammoth tusk discovered in Alaska is set for auction Friday with an estimated selling price of $70,000. The rare coloring was a result of a mineral that replaced broke bits of the tusk, which belonged to a massive beast some 30,000 years ago. Nicknamed 'The Ocean,' it will be the main event at the auction and accompanied by 49 other stunning specimens. The auction includes an 18-foot long mosasaurs (top right) and pristine Ichthyosaurv(bottom right), along with the 'most beautiful Martian meteorite.'
EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of more than 8,000 over-50s followed by researchers for up to 15 years revealed the leisure activities which offer the most protection against dementia.
US space agency NASA, confirmed that the 30 days 'test flight window' for the Ingenuity rotorcraft will begin 'no earlier than the first week of April'.
The mission, licensed by the UK Space Agency, launches from Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket at 6.07am GMT on Saturday (March 20).
Analysis of the virus' spread and its 'molecular clock' revealed the virus was most likely already well-established in Wuhan in December.
Researchers tracked the storm speed by monitoring hydrogen cyanide molecules left from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 which slammed into the world in 1994. Astronomers from the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux discovered that some of the 900mph winds are so powerful they develop storms wider than the Earth and up to 560 miles tall within the clouds of the dust giant.
Dubbed 2001 FO32, it is twice the size of the Eiffel Tower at 2,230ft in diameter, making it the largest space rock to pass the Earth so far this year.
According to the researchers, writing with paper involves unique, complex spatial and tactile information that provides the brain with more information to trigger memory.
Up to 510,000 premises in Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Tees Valley will be the first to benefit from 'Project Gigabit'.
Scientists say the have solved the three-year mystery of Oumuamua, which is an object that flew through the solar system. The study finds it is a chunk from an exoplanet covered in frozen nitrogen.
NASA conducted a successful full-duration eight-minute hot fire test of the Space Launch System Artemis I core stage, confirming the 'megarocket' is set to launch in November. The four engines ignited with a loud roar at 4:37pm ET at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The 'green run hot fire' test saw the rocket's core stage burn four RS-25 engines that generated 1.6 million pounds of thrust and drained the tanks of thousands of gallons of liquid hydrogen.
The social media giant said the device would be able to control its augmented reality (AR) glasses - currently in development and expected to be launched this year.
Google co-founder and billionaire Sergey Brin is using his fortune to build the world's largest airship to assist with humanitarian efforts. The craft is said to be 656ft and powered by a giant hydrogen fuel cell.
Found in Vallecillo, Mexico, the fossilised shark specimen was 5.4 feet (1.65 m) long and had a longer span of 6.2 feet (1.9 metres).
A new report reveals the shocking hashtags trending following Trump's misguided tweet in March 2020, which referred to the 'Chinese Virus'.
NASA shared audio of its Perseverance driving on Mars. The clip plays a range of bangs, pings and rattles coming from the rovers wheels as it travels through the Jezero crater and sees its first dust devil. A short video sent back to the NASA team shows a whirling cloud of dust off in the distance and experts say it will cross paths with many more. The audio clip of the rover's wheels churning in the dirt was captured March 7 by an off-the-shelf microphone that NASA is using to let the public feel like they are along for the journey.
MIT researchers conducted a mathematical analysis based on the physical properties of generic coronavirus cells and found they collapse at frequencies seen in normal ultrasound scans.
Fructose and sucrose in fizzy drinks promote hepatic lipogenesis - the synthesis of fatty acids around the liver, even in small amounts, researchers found.
Health and dietary data on more than 10,500 adults was analysed by experts from the US to see how the timing and duration of daily consumption affects diabetic risk factors.
For reasons scientists don't yet understand, green sea turtles, sharks, penguins, and marine mammals all do something rather unusual - they swim in circles.
A hiker in the US praised 'pure luck and right timing' for the stunning photo of the purple-tinted bolt in Pecos, New Mexico. He said he took the picture when he was 'only 400 yards away' and that his ears rang for about five hours after. The blast during heavy rain was so immense that it 'only left the trunk of the tree'.
Climate and energy website Carbon Brief estimated the 11% drop in greenhouse gas emissions last year, saying it was the biggest annual fall in at least 30 years.
The origins of the bright blue circular aurora were revealed by the NASA Juno spacecraft, which is currently studying the gas giant from orbit.
Voluntary and unscheduled five-minute breaks during a typical workday are especially useful in helping tired employees bounce back from morning fatigue, according to a new study.
Researchers analysed health data on 15,000 people, looking at the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on cognitive capacity later in life.
Arik Kershenbaum, author of a new book called 'the zoologist's guide to the galaxy', claims Darwinian natural selection would apply throughout the universe. The zoologist and astrobiologist from the University of Cambridge said this would result in alien creatures that have symmetrical bodies with wings, legs or fins.
Combined, cattle are responsible for around half of the greenhouse gas emissions produced by livestock globally, the University of California, Davis team explained.
Made from sheets only some 30 atoms thick, the robots are made of so-called 'shape memory actuators' which fold and stay folded when an electric jolt is applied.
Archaeologists in Scotland found 18,600 sea-snail shells served as part of a Pictish feast in the fifth century. After being eaten, the shells were carefully returned to the pit they were cooked in.
The researchers have speculated that devices are reducing the time that children spent reading, playing and interacting with family, other kids - with knock-on effects.
The man, believed to be a diplomat called Ajpach' Waal, was instrumental in forging an unlikely alliance between two powerful dynasties in the eighth century. But the peace ended just ten years later when one of the kings was beheaded in a rebellion and the other ruler was overthrown. Ajpach' Waal subsequently lost his money and power, and he likely died in relative obscurity. Analysis of his bones and teeth (top) revealed information on his life, as to odid the hieroglyphs on his ceremonial staircase and platform (bottom left). Despite his evident wealth and inherited influence, he was buried with just two ceramic pots (bottom right) which indicate he died poor.
WalkSafe has attracted more than 300,000 downloads within a week, becoming the number one free app on Apple's iOS and entering the top 10 on Android.
Faradair, a company based in Duxford, is working on its bio electric hybrid aircraft (Beha) plane which will be capable of reaching speeds of around 230mph.
Nanotechnology developed by academics at the University of Manchester is able to spot proteins which are created during neurodegeneration - the breakdown of neurons in the brain.
The SMART Tire Company is adapting NASA's 'shape memory alloy' (SMA) tech to create bicycle tires that don't need air and never go flat. The titanium-alloy wheels could eventually end up on automobiles.
A NASA-funded study has located Mars' missing water. Using simulation showing how the liquid was lost over billions of years, the team determined a majority of it is trapped in the Red Planets crust. The study points to weathering, which happens on Earth, but on Mars the landscape is not recycled and ancient rocks keep liquid trapped for billions of years. The findings debunk the long held theory that most of the planet's water had escaped into space.
The 3D models are dubbed iBlastoids because they are analogues of blastocysts - the scientific name for the bundle of cells which goes on to form an embryo.
Health data on nearly 11,500 adults was analysed by experts from California to explore the impact of body fat and muscles mass on cardiovascular disease outcomes.
TikTok users are sharing reactions of their dogs when they eat chicken covered in hot sauce. Blue Cross told MailOnline it was 'horrified' to see this latest social media trend.
Harvard scientists say Earth's mantle was four times hotter some 3 billion years ago, which would inhibited minerals from holding water - resulting in a global ocean that engulfed the planet.
Sequestered in the Lombrives cave in Ariège, the team have four tons of supplies to live on - along with water from the cave and a pedal-driven dynamo for electricity. Mission leader Christian Clot, who is one of the participants, was inspired to stage the test after seeing how the COVID-19 pandemic brought isolation in to our lives.
The Israel Antiquities Authority say they were found in a remote canyon in the Judean Desert, south of Jerusalem - the first find of its kind in 60 years.
Candida auris, a deadly species of fungus that's resistant to multiple drugs, has been found on a sandy beach and tidal swamp on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
The bird is losing its 'song culture' due to a rapidly declining population, including a drop off of males in southeast Australia where the bird is endemic.
The technology giant´s latest Ads Safety Report revealed more than 3.1 billion ads were blocked or removed last year.
The first-ever moon mortgage highlights necessary construction and resources needed to live on the lunar surface, which will cost residents more than $325,067 a month. This includes building expenses that total to $40 million, as people will need meteor-proof windows, greenhouses and other life-saving amenities for living in spaced. Along with paying for construction, the guide predicts t here will be a property markup of 27.61 percent after the moon becomes heavily populated with Earthlings escaping their overcrowded world.
The side of the planet which contains the Pacific Ocean is losing heat at a more rapid rate than the half which contains Africa, Europe and Asia over the last 400million years.
Men have to work harder than women to burn off fat during endurance sports, researchers at the University of Bath have found.
A new tool helps you escape boring Zoom meetings. Called Zoom Escaper, the free widget includes effects that stream through your Zoom mic and are deemed unbearable for others.
Winter Storm Xylia dropped nearly three feet of snow in Colorado over the weekend, but some of the powder had a brown hue that was created by dust particles that traveled up from Mexico.
The finds at the Tal Ganoub Qasr al-Agouz site (left) in the Western Desert's Bahariya Oasis - which included ancient Christian inscriptions (top and bottom right) shine a light on monastic life in the area in the fifth century AD, the team said. The mission unearthed 'several buildings made of basalt, others carved into the bedrock and some made of mud bricks,' the Egyptian antiquities ministry said.
Researchers from France investigated cases of so-called 'cryptorchidism' - a condition in which one or both testicles have not descended into the scrotum.
Current NASA plans could see the first humans step foot on the surface of the Red Planet by the end of the next decade as part of the Artemis mission.
The team from the Netherlands grew the organoids to investigate how certain cells in tear glands allow us to keep our eyes clear and lubricated, as well as get all weepy.
Google is getting into the health market with its new Nest Hub that can track sleep. The 7-in screen device is packed sensors and radar to monitor movements and breathing through the night.
The International Space Station discarded its largest piece of space junk to-date - a 2.9-ton pallet of nickel-hydrogen batteries. The junk is set to burn up in the atmosphere in the next two to four years. NASA's original plan was to deliver the degraded batteries back to Earth, but a failed 2018 Soyuz launch that disrupted spacewalk schedules when it kept crew members set to conduct a battery swap grounded. The pallet is moving just 4.8 miles per second and is not expected to survive the intense heat when it reaches Earth's atmosphere and NASA's ballistic officers 'indicate no threat.'
A ten week consultation by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) that has been assessing the current ban on the practice concludes tomorrow.
Twenty-one per cent of people who have Covid develop a rash as their only symptom of Covid. 17% develop a rash first and then get other symptoms later on.
Researchers say the essential spark for life may have happened over a billion years and taken more than a quintillion individual lightning strikes.
Scientists have found that toddlers used to being placated with digital media on devices like tablets and phones had the most extreme tantrums when the media was taken away.
Researchers used photogrammetry, a process that involves digital photos taken from multiple angles in exacting detail, to 'rebuild' the skulls of Duke Spytihněv I and his brother, Vratislav. A forensic facial reconstruction expert then added musculature and other details to fully recreate their faces. A digital result was created of each man, showing each with blue eyes and reddish-brown hair - all of which were determined through DNA analysis.
Researchers studied 412,596 middle-aged UK Biobank participants and the relative link between body mass, walking pace and the risk of developing severe strains of Covid-19.
University of Surrey researchers say sebum - a waxy substance made by glands in the skin - is altered by the coronavirus and can therefore be used to detect signs of infection.
Researchers created models to explore ways hot, rocky worlds could hold on to their atmospheres for a long time. Particularly looking at magma worlds that once had a hydrogen cloak.
Research suggests one of the most popular sweetner - stevia - may not be good for our gut bacteria, which play a key role in a host of functions including immunity and mood.
The world's first remote tattoo was completed by a 5G-powered robotic arm. While the tattoo artist inked a mannequin arm, the robot mimicked the same movements on a living client. The result was the world's first-ever remotely needled tattoo, nicknamed the 'Impossible Tattoo.' The final result (inset) reflects the client's love of the outdoors. The procedure was commissioned by T-Mobile to show off the speed and reliability of its high-speed network, which was filmed for a three-minute documentary.
A UK firm is working on the world's first microwave-powered boilers, which could be available to customers through wholesalers n 2024.
Instagram has announced it is restricting the ability of adults to contact teenagers who do not follow them on the platform.
The LETSCOM Smart Watch Health and Fitness tracker is now on sale for just £33.99 and is rivaling more expensive brands thanks to its impressive features and functions.
Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of Russian watchdog Roskomnadzor, said on Tuesday that Twitter has 30 days to remove content including child porn and information on drugs or else face being banned.
The intricate red and green tile pattern (left) from one of the boats (top right) or Caligula (inset) was recovered from the bottom of Lake Nemi - 19 miles south of Rome - in 1929 (bottom right), at the behest of Mussolini. After avoiding the inferno that destroyed both boats during WWII, the mosaic vanished sometime after 1955 and was illegally smuggled into the United States. In 2017, Italian police tracked the item to the Manhattan home of an Italian couple, who said they bought the mosaic in good faith from an aristocrat in the 1960s.
In February 2021, the average temperature in the contiguous US was 30.6 F, or 3.2°F below the 20th-century average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Scientists observed the first clear evidence of a supermassive black hole wandering through space. A black hole was spotted traveling 110,000mph through a galaxy 230M light-years from Earth.
In a real photo portrait, researchers say, both eyes should have similar reflective patterns. But because AI uses so many different photos to create a realistic deepfake, it usually lacks this detail.
The National Transport Safety Board says Tesla is using customers to tests its Full Self-Driving system before it is approved and slams regulators for their 'hands-off approach' for letting it happen.
Baikal-GVD has been under construction since 2015 and consists of strings with spherical glass and stainless steel modules measuring a total of 17,657 cubic feet under Lake Baikal in Siberia. The team behind the telescope say understanding neutrinos can help reveal details of the early evolution of the universe, dark matter and dark energy.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University compared the behaviour of people using normal smartphones to those with kosher phones which are stripped of most apps.
Trusted leakers are claiming the date March 23 for Apple's next unveiling event. The firm is expected to finally reveal AirTags, which would help people find non-electronic items like lost luggage.
Psychologists measured the brain activity of men while they completed a task involving deciding between generous and selfish options.
The discovery was made from ice core samples dug in the 1960s by US Army scientists as part of a decoy bid to disguise the location of a Cold War military base.
A digital replica of the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism may solve the missing piece of the front gear system (top inset) that displayed positions of the cosmos, which ancient Greeks used to make prediction. The device (bottom inset), also known as the world's oldest computer, was discovered in a Roman-era shipwreck off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. For more than a century scholars have been fascinated by the highly sophisticated astronomical calculator, but none have solved how it worked. Now researchers at University College London (UCL) used X-ray data and ancient Greek mathematics to determine the position and movements of Earth, the sun, moon and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Tinder is set to offer a background check feature to let users vet potential dates before meeting in person. The service will cost a fee, but users only need a person's name and phone number.
Exactly how the animal arrived in Ireland remains unknown but experts say the two-metre long, cow-sized beast looked visibly exhausted.
Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study led by the University of Cambridge.
Researchers investigated the links between an expectant mother's diet and their children's growth rates between birth and adolescence.
Astronomers used observations from the Hubble to spot the strange exoplanet orbiting a young Red Dwarf star 41 light years from the Earth. It is too far away and dim to be photographed by the space telescope but 'fingerprints' of gases on the distant world were captured by the orbiting observatory.
HM Passport Office has confirmed an improved version of the facial detection system, developed by its software vendor, has still not rolled out.
An internal document published on Friday said NHS England staff should also be put through the latest infection control training and provided protective equipment and a tight-fitting mask.
Small Pharma will give volunteers suffering from depression DMT, a hallucinogenic tryptamine with similar psychedelic effects as LSD and magic mushrooms.
A study discovered 'current warming from methane and nitrous oxide in the Amazon Basin offsets-and most likely exceeds-the ability it has to soak up CO2.
It was an exciting and strange sighting - a woman walking a robotic dog attached to a leash through the streets of Fort Pierce, Florida. The robot is one of Boston Dynamics' creations. The robotic firm names it spot, but this robot dog called 'Scrappy' in the videos shared to YouTube. During the stroll, Scrappy showed off its skills by sitting and stopping when commanded, along with maneuvering around crowds and objects in its path.
Twitter has confirmed a weird glitch that suspended users after they tweeted the word 'Memphis' last night.
Posts on both Facebook and Instagram relating to coronavirus vaccines will now be given a label stating jabs are thoroughly tested for safety before being administered.
The figures released this morning by the Cupertino-based firm come a week after it was announced the App Store will be investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
According to an Oxford psychologist, we are just as likely to plump for a bottle simply because it has a simple name or a pretty picture of a giraffe on the label (file photo).
Netflix users are going into meltdown on social media following its attempt to stop people without an account from accessing the service. One person on Twitter said: 'They're getting too greedy... on top of raising prices for mediocre content... if they continue doing this they're gonna crash.' Someone else pointed out that the backlash could drive people off the service: 'This is stupid and unnecessary, you are going to harm your company by doing stupid s**t like this,' they tweeted. Another person said streaming rival Disney+ Disney+ 'had won the streaming wars'.
Scientists in California are using 'underwater Roombas,' drone subs equipped with sonar, to scan the seafloor near Los Angeles for thousands of barrels of DDT and other toxic chemicals.
Algal blooms are depleted food sources for manatees in Florida, resulting in more than 400 of the animals starving to death. Officials fear the population could disappear at a central hub.
Researchers identified 50 new genes that play a role in eye color following the genetic analysis of nearly 195,000 people in Europe and Asia. These genes were known, but were not noted as being involved.
The 47 million-year-old fly was found at the Messel Pit, a fertile fossil site in central Germany. Using an electron microscope researchers determined its final meal included pollen from water-willow and ivy.
NASA shared a video to Twitter showing moments before Perseverance touched down on Mars, but from the point of view of the rover that makes it feel like you are along for the journey. The 24-second video begins with the heat shield separating that allowed Perseverance's cameras to 'see' a cratered Martian world below for the first time. The video is a series of images snapped by the rover's Terrain-Relative Navigation system that NASA stitched together for the clip.
Zvi Ben-David, 11, found a ceramic figure of a bare-breasted woman on vacation in Israel's Negev Desert. The amulet was likely used for protection during pregnancy or for a newborn, experts said.
The most widespread forms of pollution from roads and vehicles are particulate matter, tiny particles from the burning of fossil fuels in engines, they found.
Researchers from Spain analysed the treatment of 41,828 patients who were admitted to hospital with chest pain and compared the treatment they received.
A report finds some 535,000 Americas live three miles from oil and gas flares that release black carbon and other volatile compounds into the air that can result in health risks.
The bones of a woman buried with a silver diadem (pictured) alongside a man (right inset) and other riches (inset left) were discovered at a bronze age site La Almoloya under the floor of an ancient building believed to have been used as a palace or early government building.
EXCLUSIVE: A Man on the Moon was first published in 1994 and tells the story of the real life adventurers that set foot on the surface of the moon for NASA. It is out in a new Folio edition.
EXCLUSIVE: The discovery of two genetic treatments from UCL academics managed to extend healthy lifespan in fruit flies by 8.8%.
The technology - called 'Safe Blues' - provides an accurate model of Covid-19 and can be used to track transmission as it happens.
The new feature for Google Maps, rolling out over the coming months in more than 80 countries, lets users draw in missing roads to the terrain. Google added that it'll be checking all contributions.
The find from China - a world first - is an oviraptorosaur, one of a group of bird-like, theropod dinosaurs that thrived from 130-66 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period. According to the experts, the specimen in question was found in 70 million-year old rocks excavated near the railway station in Ganzhou city, in Jiangxi Province, China.
The concept is the result of a collaboration between unmanned aircraft company EHang Holdings and architects at the Rome-based Giancarlo Zema Design Group.
The zodiacal light is a faint column of light extending up from the horizon - it is sunlight reflected towards Earth by a cloud of dust particles in orbit around the sun.
In an open letter to mark the 32nd birthday of the World Wide Web Mr Berners Lee says the internet is a 'basic right' and is to the 21st century what electricity was to the 20th century.
Researchers have shown that the structure on the west Greenland coast was indeed created by the exact same geological process as the surrounding area.
Love letters from WWII have been discovered under floor boards in a Scarborough hotel in the UK. Experts date the notes between 1941 to 1944, but the couples' names are unknown.
The meteorite, named EC 002, was discovered in the Sahara desert and is said to be older than Earth. Experts dated the rock back 4.6 billion years and say it came from the crust of a very early planet.
Grand Designs is the British TV programme which displays the most eco-friendly habits, according to new research, and Gangs of London is the least environmentally conscious of 45 shows.
Almost 30 per cent of people said a person who was completely bald looked sick, 27.6 per cent more than for a person with hair.
BakeryScan is used in Japan to recognize different pastries at retail shops, but has been revised for the medical world to identify cancer by measuring the nucleus of a urinary cell.
NASA's Artemis program, that aims to land the first woman on the moon by 2024, has loftier goals, including landing humans on Mars by the mid-to-late 2030s.
On August 4, 2020 more than 2,750 tons of unsafely stored ammonium nitrate exploded in Labanon's port city of Beirut, killing more than 200 people.
Using LIDAR technology, scientists uncovered and mapped 6,000 bomb craters in a region of Poland that was occupied by Nazi soldiers in WWII that used the area for fuel production.
Apple could release 'smart footwear' that is a pair of socks or shoes that would pair with its rumored VR headset. The footwear would deliver haptic feedback to the user to enhance the experience.
The craft, called ELSA-d and developed by Japanese firm Astroscale, will blast off on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan at 6.07am GMT on March 20.
Genetic mutations in the 7,000-year-old bones of Vietnamese hunter-gatherers suggest malaria plagued humans long before we adapted to farming. The parasite still kills over 400,000 a year.
A team of scientists, led by the University of Tübingen, analysed genetic material preserved in the fossilised remains of eight canines found in the Gnirshöhle cave in southwest Germany.
The bone health of 36 vegans and 36 non-vegans was compared by means of ultrasound by researchers led from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.
In the survey of 2,000 Brits commissioned to celebrate The Vicar of Dibley, 67 per cent admitted to laughing at jokes they don't understand.
US Space Force won the inter-military Call of Duty Endowment Bowl, pitting teams from the US military against the UK's Royal Navy, Air Force and Marines, and raising $900,000 for veterans.
Swollen lymph nodes are common after infection and a sign the immune system is fighting a foreign invader. However, swollen lymph nodes is not a known side-effect for other vaccines.
Scientists have found that cuttlefish can pass a 'fishy version' of the 'marshmallow test' - originally used on pre-school children to test their self-control.
Scientists have proved that fats in food interact with compounds in wine to make the drink taste better. Fats mask the flavour of tannins - bitter and astringent compounds in wine.
The object, catalogued as C/2021 AI, was discovered by astronomer Gregory J Leonard on January 3 at the Mount Lemmon Infrared Observatory in Arizona.
The US space agency said the ten segments that make up the two booster rockets were vertically stacked over several weeks at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
People who frequently mislead others are less able to distinguish fact from fiction, according to Canadian researchers who looked extensively into what they call 'bulls**tters'.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised 'Full Self Driving' capabilities by late 2021. But Tesla told regulators its cars won't be autonomous any time soon, but will 'remain largely unchanged' from Level 2.
Instagram's algorithms are promoting anti-vax, antisemitic and Covid-denying content to millions of users, the Center for Countering Digital Hate claims in a new report.
Hakan Estavi - CEO of blockchain system firm Bridge - has outbid other prospective buyers including Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun.
The uncrewed spacecraft has entered a temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of landing a rover on the Red Planet in the coming months.
WhatsApp has finally launched voice and video calls for desktop. Today's rollout is just for one-to-one calls - but WhatsApp will bring group voice and video chats at some point in the future.
Volunteers with Parkinson's in the US were asked to either practice their golf swing or take Tai Chi lessons for ten weeks and have their mobility tested before and after the session.
Researchers analysed health data on 906,967 dogs to identify those breeds and characteristics that might increase the risk of the cancer.
Researchers gathered housework and childcare data from UK men and women during the first lockdown last year. On average, women did nearly twice the amount of both chores as men.
The septuagenarian seabird hatched an egg again last month on the breeding habitat of Midway Atoll, a tiny island in the north Pacific some 1,300 miles from Hawaii.
The funerary monument near Rome's historic centre took five years to restore and make safe before it could be reopened to the public.
Microsoft Mesh is a mixed-reality platform that lets users transport themselves as holograms to anywhere in the world. Users can also share augmented reality content with others in the experience.
Poor maintenance since the house was dug up in 1913-14 saw the hunting fresco and others deteriorate, particularly at the bottom, which is more vulnerable to humidity.
The painting, now held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, once adorned part of the north wall of a chapel in the Mastaba (or tomb) of Nefermaat and Itet at Meidum.
Polyester enables the virus to survive at infectious levels for up to 72 hours, whereas 100 per cent cotton kills the virus in 24 hours. Coronaviruses can survive on polycotton however for just six hours.
In south Texas, hundreds of sea turtles rescued during last week's arctic chill returned to the Gulf by taking a quick plunge down a slide. Chilly water can send the cold-blooded creatures into shock.
SpaceX could launch its latest Starship prototype, SN10, this week following the FAA close an investigation into the root cause of the SN9 explosion earlier this month.
Disney+ has released Star, a new entertainment channel featuring the likes of Ugly Betty, Futurama, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Family Guy and films including Borat and The Favourite.
It may sound like something out of 'The Matrix' but this device uses body heat to generate power. It sits on the skin like a ring on a finger and produces one volt per square centimeter of skin.
Tianwen-1 - which consists of an orbiter, lander and rover - completed its journey just before 1PM GMT on Wednesday as it entered orbit around the Red Planet.
Greenpeace activists have dropped a series of boulders in the Offshore Brighton marine protected area to prevent bottom trawling.
Epic Games shared a sneak peek of its MetaHuman Creator that lets users design 'digital humans using its library of presets including 30 hairstyles and 18 different body types.
NASA says its Perseverance rover is in 'great shape' after successfully landing on the surface of Mars last night after a 239 million-mile journey.
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden had 32 healthy men aged 18 to 40 sit in 14 degrees Celsius water until their body temperature dropped to 35.5C.
A Swedish firm is offering Texas advice amid the state's wind turbines freezing due to a deep freeze. Skellefteå Kraft says it coats blades with carbon fibers that heat automatically.
Suffolk-based Aeralis was given £200,000 by the RAF to develop its 'modular' two-seater aircraft that will come in one of three variants depending on requirements.
Experts at the University of Liverpool used machine learning to predict associations between 411 strains of coronavirus and 876 potential mammal host species.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the ocean following a Starlink mission. The rocket was set to land on the droneship in Port Canaveral, but missed the target.
Heterosexuals who think having a 'gay' voice can't be changed are more likely to be homophobic, according to a new study. Gay men who feel the same anticipate rejection from straight people.
Boeing designed the coating to protect astronauts during space missions, but after the coronavirus outbreak researches modified the formula to target the COVID-19 virus.
Researchers from Germany used a new statistical method to estimate the changing population sizes of megafauna like woolly mammoths from the radiocarbon record.
Researchers in Finland surveyed more than 160 seniors over age 60. Those who sang in a choir had better cognitive flexibility, the ability to switch between different thought processes.
Meteorologist Bill Taylor captured a photograph of dozens of bizarre glowing columns while out walking in the city of North Platte on Monday, February 8.
Developers of the so-called 'Insight' test from the Wellcome Sanger Institute say their proof-of-concept design could easily be scaled up and would be easier to use than the current swab tests.
The 5,000-year-old monument in Salisbury, Wiltshire, contains bluestones brought from a Welsh hillside, raising questions over where the stone circle originated.
Experts discovered 16 burials in rock-cut tombs at an ancient Egyptian site, with one mummy bearing a tongue made of gold. The other mummies had deteriorated, but their funeral masks were intact.
Speaking on the audio-only Clubhouse app on Sunday, the SpaceX founder told the Good Times Show his goal was to establish a self-sustaining Martian civilisation.
Washington State University researchers searched extensive collections of writings by anthropologists on traditional, subsistence-level societies around the world.
Researchers rated each of London's streets based on wellbeing-related factors such air pollution levels , ambient noise, street design, walkability and trees.
The 'Lehi horse', uncovered from the city of Lehi in Utah, was thought to have lived in the Pleistocene Epoch - which lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago.
Named Airspeeder, it will initially be flown by a remote pilot and can take off and land vertically, according to its developers Alauda Aeronautics.
The source of heat that powers the vast volcanic system of Yellowstone National Park in the western US dates back to at least 50 million years ago, scientists say.
Scientists from Chulalongkorn University have been studying Avicequinon-C for several years and the recent tests won an award from the National Research Council of Thailand.
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) studied 808 teens who used cannabis at least weekly for at least six months and 5,308 who did not use the drug.
Researchers from the the University of Washington in the US have found sleep duration fluctuates throughout the 29.5-day lunar cycle - likely due to moonlight.
A survey of more than 2,700 women from the University College London compared stress levels with number of hot flushes and cold sweats.
This is the closest the clock has been to midnight in its 73-year history, with climate change, increased nuclear tensions and the global pandemic bringing us closer to the apocalypse.
Renewables accounted for 42 per cent of electricity production last year in the UK, a report shows, while fossil fuels made up 41 per cent.
Researchers from New York University studied anonymous health records of more than 7,000 hospitalised Covid-19 patients between March and May 2020.
Apple is urging users to update devices with the new iOS 14.4 due to three security flaws spotted by 'anonymous researchers. Two were found in Webkit and the other in Kernal, the core operating system.
Almost half (44 per cent) of people on the lowest rung of society from the 10th to 14th centuries had some form of broken bone.
The US Army has given a rifle stabilizer that was set for its now defunct 'Iron Man' suit another go. The device attaches to a rifle barrel and is designed with a gyroscopes and sensors for incredible accuracy.
Danish researchers believe high levels of vitamin D, which is made by the body when exposed to sunlight as well as after eating specific foods, may be behind the link.
The Watch Timer feature is currently being tested with select Android users worldwide, and it remains unclear when, or even if, it will be available for all Netflix users.
Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research and the University of Manchester analysed data from two previous clinical trials on radiotherapy treatments.
Researchers from the University of Sydney analysed 208 separate studies on 167 animal species published since the early 1980s to track animal movement.
The study, by researchers from the University of Texas, suggests that the use of pronouns may indicate an impending breakup.
UN Development Programme (UNDP) and University of Oxford researchers questioned 1.2 million people worldwide as part of the 'people's climate vote'.
Research from the University of Bristol shows that when schoosl re-opened in June in the UK, the number of interactions each child had per day was drastically reduced.
O2, Three and Vodafone have unveiled their plans as part of the Shared Rural Network scheme to build and share 222 new masts to boost 4G coverage in hard-to-reach areas of the UK.
EXCLUSIVE: A survey of more than 5,000 cat owners around the world by Nottingham Trent University found 41 per cent of owners decide on an indoor-only existence for their companion.
The grizzly spectacle was discovered by scientists conducting a bird count in the village of Ambodiala, in Marojejy National Park in the island country's northeast.
Elon Musk told investors on Tesla's quarterly earnings call that '2021 will be a great year,' as Cybertrucks will be delivered and the Full-Self Driving system will have level 5 autonomy.
Researchers from China studied the sleep patterns and mental abilities of 2,214 healthy adults aged 60 or over who lived in several large cities - including Beijing and Shanghai.
Scientists have developed a 'bio-ink' made of a patient's living cells that can 3D print bones in just minutes of mixing with bodily fluids, allowing doctors to construct missing bone on the spot.
Using ground-penetrating radar and other non-invasive techniques, researchers have confirmed the site of Shiskinoow, or 'Sapling fort,' the last holdout of the Tlingit people in Alaska.
Spotify is moving beyond music and podcast with an expansion into audiobooks. The streaming service released nine classic titles such as Jane Austen's 'Persuasion.'
Experts from Stanford University School of Medicine compared the brains of 153 volunteers - including professional musicians, non-musicians and those with absolute pitch.
The first people to settle the Americas that came from Asia some 15,000 years ago brought their canine companions with them, which suggests dog domestication first began in Siberia.
Researchers used the European Space Agency CHEOPS space telescope to detect the unusual exo-planatory formation - and it could shed light on how systems form.
Tory frontbencher Lord Goldsmith of Richmond spoke about grey squirrels today in the House of Lords about the role an oral contraceptive may play in controlling their populations.
A study refutes the theory that phosphine gas, which can indicate microbial life, was found in the clouds above Venus. Researches now say it was sulfur dioxide detected in upper atmosphere.
Coors Light may not be able to show ads during the Super Bowl, but the brand has found a better spot - your dreams. The firm is releasing a video that it claims inspires you to dream about its beer.
In the study, researchers from North Carolina State University analysed hundreds of sourdough starters, in the hopes of understanding how different microbes influence a sourdough.
The second crew mission of the commercial spacecraft will leave Earth no earlier than April 20 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Apple's new feature called App Tracking Transparency will come into force next spring with an upcoming release of iOS 14.
Researchers from the BioRescue team at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany have created five embryos using eggs from Fatu, and sperm from a deceased male.
The ill-fated Atlantic iceberg A68 that broke off from Antarctica in 2017 has suffered another major spilt, creating a smaller berg called A68g.
More than 65 million western US birds travel through two corridors when migrating south. California's Central Valley and the Colorado River Delta see dozens of species in the fall.
Experts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created structures made of plant cells in a lab, much like fake meat that's grown from animal cells.
The popular app, which is known for putting 'women first', defines body shaming as 'unsolicited and derogatory comments about someone's appearance, body shape, size or health'.
The US Army has built a device that turns 'ditch water' into intravenous fluid, allowing military medics to transform groundwater into the life-saving fluid in roughly six minutes.
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