University of Southampton researchers used ultrasound scanning to find the underwater town which is as big as the City of London.
The £600 Loopwheel is set to go on sale in September. 44 year-old Nottingham engineer Sam Pearce came up with the idea after watching a pushchair struggle to get over a kerb, and sketched a rough design on the spot (top right). The finished wheel (bottom right) uses large springs instead of spokes to create a wheel with built in suspension. ...read
The 1stFone, designed specifically for four to nine-year-olds, can only make and receive calls to preprogrammed numbers and has no screen.
American scientists have successfully tested a gold-based solder that can be welded onto surgical wounds using lasers. It could provide an alternative to stitches and sutures.
Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut who was the second man to walk on the moon, has said he wants the US to permanently 'settle and colonise Mars.'
Waze uses satellite signals from members' smartphones to 'crowdsource' maps and traffic data, and can run on Apple or Apndroid handsets and tablets.
British researchers analysed data from over 17,000 people in England, Scotland, and Wales over a span of 50 years - and say being good at maths and reading at seven could add £5,000 to our salary in later life.
Engineers from Rutgers University have designed the world's first 'faunaborg' - a robot that carries plants around a room to make sure they are kept in sunlight.
A South Korean manufacturer has designed a compact semi-submarine called 'Penguin' which has floating hulls and an underwater viewing cabin.
Scientists have found that older people lose the ability to distinguish between colours as a part of the eye called the cone receptor becomes less capable of processing hues.
This incredible image shows man-made clouds released into the sky by a Nasa rocket as part of an experiment to study the behaviour of wind in the ionosphere which can lead to GPS errors of up to half a mile.
For the first time ever scientists from California have discovered exactly how our brains track fast-moving objects by 'pushing' moving images forward so that our brains see them further along in their trajectory than what our eyes see.
The stunning shot was captured by one of the crew of the space station as they passed a few hundred miles east of Easter Island. It is the latest in a stunning series of pictures captured by the current crop of astronauts aboard the orbiting outpost. Although Nasa has not revealed who took the picture, Canadian Chris Hadfield has gained a cult following on Twitter for his images of the Earth from space - although he is set to return home later this month.
Japanese firm Pioneer has shown off the prototype system which can print a holographic card from a 3D ultrasound scan. Although the firm has not yet said when the service will launch, it has shown off presentation boxes and even 3D business cards at a Tokyo photographic exhibiton.
German scientists have discovered that our brains can distinguish between different types of laughter, such as joyous, taunting or 'tickling', and will react differently to each.
YouTube is set to launch a paid-for subscription service later this week that will charge around £1.28 a month to watch videos on specialist channels, according to reports in the Financial Times.
Reading researchers uncovered the 'superlanguage' used 15,000 years ago - and found complete sentences could still be understood today
A group of U.S. researchers believe that a microchip that will help create memories in damaged brains could be implanted into human volunteers in the next two years.
Those of European descent still living on the continent are related to each other through a common ancestry dating back just 1,000 years, California researchers claim.
More than 78,000 people have signed up for the chance to be one of the first to set foot on Mars - even though they will never return to Earth.
British researchers found the greater wax moth has hearing up to 150 times more sensitive than a human.
YouTube's Trends map shows which videos are being watched and shared by people across America in real time.
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Scientists from California have developed a strain of bacteria which can take the genes that make fireflies glow and transfer them into plants to make them glow-in-the dark. The scientists are hoping that luminescent trees could replace electric street lighting and have set up a Kickstarter campaign to get funding for their project.
Spanish charity the Anar Foundation's poster can only be fully seen when looked at from a child's perspective.
The notoriously shy red-eyed tree frog, photographed by a holidaymaker in Costa Rica, shows a more adventurous side in these pictures.
The amazing image, captured on May 3rd, shows a solar prominence, a loop of red hot plasma which remains attached to the sun, and appeared just as a solar flare was subsiding
They may look like UFOs in a far-off galaxy, but in fact these are 'space warps', strange mirror images caused by systems that act as a giant lens.
Duke University's design, which looks rather like a Frisbee made of Swiss cheese, can hide an object placed at its centre by deflecting microwave beams.
By looking through the goggles, a simulator creates the effect that the user is surrounded by a crowd, and when they look down they can see a bucket, where their head will drop once they've faced the chop.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
British photographers Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah captured apes in Indonesia and Borneo - and highlighted how human our evolutionary cousins are.
A green-tinged meteor was spotted shooting across England and Wales Wednesday night with reported sightings in Cornwall, Hampshire, Lancashire, South Wales and Worcestershire. Experts believe the meteor may have been formed from debris from Halley’s Comet and would have travelled at speeds of 150,000 miles per hour.
The carcass of a mysterious creature with jagged teeth and a gaping jaw has has been found on a beach off the coast of New Zealand. Marine experts are trying to determine what animal the carcass has come from.
A group of 12 'pillownauts' are spending a total of nine weeks lying at an angle so scientists can see how weightlessness affects the human body and brain.
The Emotion sense app developed at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory can track a person's mood throughout the day, alerting therapists to potential problems.
The first flying car from Massachusetts-based firm Terrafugia is due to go on sale as early as 2015. It has also unveiled a new TF-X model could be small enough to fit in a garage, and can take off from a vertical position.
Researchers from the University of South Brittany have found that women find men carrying a guitar to be more attractive than sporty men, or men who are empty handed.
The new species of bone-headed dinosaur, named pachycephalosaur, was found in Alberta, Canada.
Archaeologists say it is the oldest ever found - and also believe it regularly headbutted others to show off.
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