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Most fish in the sea evolved on land

a shared story    1 day 3 hours 42 minutes ago
Three-quarters of the fish in the sea have a freshwater ancestor. The finding highlights how important rivers and lakes are as a source of new species 



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Images: Airplanes of Tomorrow, NASA's Vision of Future Air Travel

a shared story    1 day 6 hours 42 minutes ago
See illustrations of potential future aircraft inspired by NASA research for 21st century air trvel.  



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New hard drive technology is hundreds of times faster - and will allow drives to record terabytes of data every second

a shared story    1 day 8 hours 42 minutes ago
Computer hard drives could suddenly become far faster, thanks to a new technology from University of York researchers that uses heat to write information to the magnetic storage systems. 



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Skydiver to Attempt Record-Breaking Supersonic Space Jump

a shared story    1 day 14 hours 42 minutes ago
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner would be the first person to break the sound barrier outside an aircraft.  



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Fossils find in Namibia is world's oldest animal life - and our oldest ancestor is a sponge from 760 million years ago

a shared story    1 day 16 hours 42 minutes ago
Sponge-like fossils unearthed in rocks Namibia's Etosha National Park are the world's oldest animal life, say University of St Andrews researchers - proving that animals emerged 760 million years ago. 



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Spinning through the skies: The cosmic ballet of the stars captured by an amateur photographer with a warm coat

a shared story    1 day 18 hours 42 minutes ago
Olga Kulakova, 27, only picked up a camera for the first time a year ago, but some dedicated late-night shooting sessions in freezing conditions led to this view of the cosmic ballet over the night sky in Kazakhstan. 



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New banking cyber attack bypasses passwords and even the latest PIN security devices

a shared story    1 day 19 hours 42 minutes ago
A new generation of cyber attack has evolved to 'leapfrog' the latest generation of banking security - including PIN devices which randomly generate security codes. 



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World's most ancient music from 165million-year-old insect is revived

a shared story    1 day 21 hours 42 minutes ago
The love song of an extinct cricket has been brought back to life by scientists at the University of Bristol. The song was reconstructed from a fossil discovered in China. 



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Could Spider-Man become a reality? Bizarre white cobweb found on nuclear waste that could have come from a 'mutant' spider

a shared story    2 days 13 hours 42 minutes ago
In a freakish echo of the Spider-Man comic strip, workers at a U.S nuclear waste facility in South Carolina discovered the growth (pictured) on uranium last month. 



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Mars is too dry to support life on its surface

a shared story    3 days 11 hours 42 minutes ago
Samples of soil found that the surface had been starved of any moisture that might enhance the view that there are living organisms on the red planet. 



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Lake Vostok: Russian scientists drilling into 'alien' Antarctic lake buried for 20m years

a shared story    3 days 13 hours 42 minutes ago
The team have been out of radio contact with anxious colleagues for five days - they are drilling into a lake buried deep beneath the Antarctic ice, one of the most alien and inhospitable places on Earth. 



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Anonymous eavesdrops on FBI conference call

a shared story    3 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
The hacktivist group managed to a listen in on a call between the FBI and law enforcement officials from several different European countries 



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