5.30.2014

VIDEO: Owner suit age 60 years in 20 minutes

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Meet Agnes, combining empathy aging at MIT

May 30, 2014 Last update 00:12 BST clock

Today, people are living longer than ever before, and come new challenges on how to improve the quality of life of an aging population worldwide.

AgeLab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a suit, saying that develops the aging process, the young people have simulated faced a better idea of the physical challenges of older adults.

Dr. Joseph Coughlin, director of AgeLab explained that the purpose of the combination - called Agnes for Age Gain Now Empathy System - making the world more accessible for the elderly and a better life for the people, and at what age.

Rajini Vaidyanathan BBC showed how it looks in the age of "20 to 80 in 20 minutes."

Filmed by Ian Cartwright; Edited by Joni field Mazer

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People in rich countries are getting older. But life is still of a better life? Earlier we have dedicated a number to the challenges of aging and how they will be met by an aging population

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VIDEO: Guns 3D printing "explode during cooking"

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Guns 3D "printing is useless"

May 30 2014 Last updated at 11:06 BST

Technology enthusiasts to alert the police did not try to use 3D printers to make plastic guns, because when cannons exploded tests were performed.

Weapons relatively cheap printed plastic were successfully released in the United States.

British scientists say without further experience and the type of ammunition, anyone trying to make a maul or maybe even kill.

They also note that it may be illegal.

Phil Mackie, had exclusive access to the tests carried out by the National Intelligence ballistics access to Birmingham.

VIDEO: SpaceX capsule has "no roads"

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SpaceX has "do not track 'Dragon space capsule V2

May 30 2014 Last updated at 10:31 BST

SpaceX has filed a reusable space vehicles, they will be able to take from anywhere on Earth and to country, "like a helicopter."

The seven-seat Dragon V2 is fitted with engines and legs to the side to allow him vertically fitted without runway.

Since his retirement, NASA space shuttle fleet, three years ago, the U.S. space agency has to rely on Russian spacecraft to fly its astronauts into space.

The Californian company is competing with several other contracts for NASA.

5.29.2014

AUDIO: Pets "platonic friendships"

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Large animal brains platonic friendships''

May 28 2014 Last updated at 16:14 BST clock

Animals with larger brains, such as elephants, horses, killer whales and some primates have platonic friendships, according to New Scientist.

The friendships that are not sexually be formed of animals in the barn, community groups.

Cale wildlife filmmaker Adrian said that friendships helped group animals were stressful life.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast : "If you are a person of lower rank, you will be hard, so that defensive alliances ... to form coalitions with other animals.".

VIDEO: Video shows wasp drilling zinc

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The pictures show the fruits of the wasp drilling zinc in action

May 29 2014 Last updated at 08:58 BST

Captured by scientists Video has the power of a parasitic wasp, which has developed from a tip of the drill bit to drill the fruits zinc disclosed.

Laying wasp in the fruit to lay their eggs inside.

A team from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, that the fruits of the drilling tool and the wasp egg - which is thinner than a human hair - has enriched zinc teeth.

In this case, the project leader, Dr. Namrata Gundiah is describes how the wasp uses its metal enriched appendix.

Video courtesy of and Namrata Lakshminath Kundanati Gundiah

VIDEO: Soyuz rocket sends ISS crew

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For the ISS Soyuz rocket in Kazakhstan Bound

May 28 2014 Last updated at 22:25 BST clock

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched with a three-man crew of the International Space Station in Kazakhstan.

Reid Wiseman is docked by NASA, Russian cosmonaut Max Surayev and German Alexander Gerst, the European Space Agency to the station is less than six hours later.

They are programmed to remain in orbit for six months.

5.28.2014

VIDEO: Oil workers Tornado movie escape

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Film Tornado oil workers in North Dakota

May 27 2014 Last updated at 15:45 BST clock

A group of oil workers have escaped a few times, tornado hit before his camp in North Dakota, USA.

At least 15 followers damaged or destroyed south of Watford City on Monday were, with a 15-year-old girl with serious injuries.

Continue to seek emergency personnel in the camp, the debris.

Dan Yorgason captured these images on the run.

VIDEO: Researchers looking to print parts of the body

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Researchers are trying to develop body parts of 3D printing

May 28 2014 Last updated at 08:49 BST

Researchers in the experiment of the Medical Centre of the University of Utrecht use of stem cells in 3D bio-printing.

One can expect that the technology could one day afford to print parts or organs of the body replacement.

Click Copestake BBC Jen went to the Netherlands to work scientists in the project and to meet more.

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5.24.2014

VIDEO: Children help combat malaria immune

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Immune help children develop malaria vaccines

May 23, 2014 Last update 15:53 BST clock

A group of children in Tanzania which helps naturally immune to malaria, scientists are developing a new vaccine.

U.S. researchers have discovered that produce antibodies, causing the parasite that causes malaria attack at a crucial stage of the life cycle.

Rebecca Morelle information.

5.22.2014

VIDEO: Crane chicks hatch in Slimbridge

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Hatched Crane Chick by special breeding program

May 22 2014 Last updated at 07:55 BST clock

Four hundred years after they were exterminated in the UK, a special breeding program has just seen his first two crane chicks have hatched.

Staff at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre in Gloucestershire, hand reared birds after 76 eggs were brought from Germany.

Chicks are expected to result in a return of the birds in large quantities, as reported by John Maguire.

VIDEO: The house is heated seawater

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The National Trust house is heated by seawater

May 22, 2014 Updated 06:01 BST

With fears about Russia's influence on the gas supply, the European governments are looking for ways to heat homes and businesses that are not dependent on the gas.

The National Trust presents the new project Thursday to suck the heat from the hot to one of the historic houses North Wales Sea.

Cooling a similar technique is used.

Analyst Roger Harrabin Reports environment BBC.

VIDEO: Wild Beaver "destroying flood protection"

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Destroy flood protection "wild beavers in Tayside

May 22 2014 Last updated at 09:48 BST

Wild Beavers in Scotland sometimes disappeared during the 18th century due to over-hunting, but the rodent was seen recently in several rivers of Perthshire.

While they welcomed by environmentalists, farmers, causing thousands of pounds compensation say.

The Scottish Government is considering what to do with them.

BBC Scotland correspondent James Cook reported Tayside.

5.20.2014

VIDEO: Scanner unravel the mysteries of the mummies

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Secrets exploration mothers

May 19 2014 Last updated at 18:06 BST clock

The British Museum has analysis was carried out in eight Egyptian mummies revealed unprecedented details about people in coffins.

Every mother has a scanner to state-of-the-art, allowing scientists tell your age, what they ate, the diseases they suffered, and how she died.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

5.19.2014

VIDEO: Length announced price £ 10 million

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Longitude Prize launched with £ 10 million awaiting the winner

May 19 2014 Last updated at 14:12 BST clock

A price of 10 million euro started to solve one of the greatest scientific challenges of today's world.

The idea of the competition is on price level in 1714, which was based won by John Harrison. Their watches allow sailors to identify their position at sea for the first time.

In the updated version, the public is invited to choose a new challenge.

Rebecca Morelle information.

VIDEO: "absorbed" pollution poster

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Poster "absorbed 20 cars worth of pollution" in Sheffield

May 19 2014 Last updated at 13:31 BST clock

A huge sign was founded in Sheffield in order to eliminate air pollution.

The researchers say that the flag removes harmful nitrogen oxide in the air, absorb the pollution of about 20 vehicles per day.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Science at the University of Sheffield, Professor Tony Ryan, told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast your idea.

5.18.2014

VIDEO: discovered "The biggest dinosaur of all time"

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Discovered "The biggest dinosaur of all time" in Argentina

May 17 2014 Last updated at 07:35 BST clock

Fossilized bones of a dinosaur that is believed to have been discovered ever walk the Earth in Argentina have the largest creature that paleontologists say.

Was based on his huge thigh bone 40m (130 ft) long and 20 m (65 feet) high.

Weighing 77 tons, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants seven heavier than the previous record holder, the Argentinosaurus tons.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

5.16.2014

VIDEO: The story behind her pearls

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How technology can determine the story behind your pearls

May 16, 2014 Last updated on 12:44 BST

With over-production of beads in the last few years, natural pearls are becoming increasingly rare.

So, anyone know if a pearl decides in a shell or developed if a man had a hand in its creation?

And how easy it is to make the difference?

Laurent Cartier, Project Manager at Swiss Gemological Institute in Basel (SSF) describes how the technology is getting more challenging to decipher the differences between the two.

Camera / Editing: Richard Duebel. Producer: Sylvia Smith.

VIDEO: new mini-satellites for Earth

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The revolution offers new mini-satellite views of the earth

May 16 2014 Last updated at 00:10 BST clock

New Silicon Valley company, Planet Labs, intends to make the most of the satellite constellation in the world - will be published by in the next 12 months 131

The company launched the first set of mini-satellites on the International Space Station in February.

Pictures of LEO satellites sent in enough detail to individual trees and will probably be in a position to new perspectives on life on the planet.

Technology in the North BBC correspondent Richard Taylor informed America.

You can follow him on Twitter @ Richard RichTaylorBBC.

More videos on the site, click . If you are in the UK, you can see the entire program in BBC iPlayer .

VIDEO: Optical illusion you can withdraw money

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Floating Display: Intel Airshow 3D interface

May 16, 2014 Last updated on 12:53 BST

A new type of 3D interface was designed users to "feel" the air to allow a selection.

It uses a 3D camera and specially designed to create an interactive 3D crystal illusion.

It could be used in public places such as ATMs or photo booths in the future, for a safe and hygienic experience, according to its developers.

Proof-of-concept device has been highlighted by Perceptual Computing Lab Intel at an event in London.

Detection depth cameras were used before the mouse as a computer control means to replace, especially with that vault . However, this technology combines 3D technology with a visible surface.

BBC tries Dougal Shaw Technology with Intel Labs Scott Dwyer

5.15.2014

VIDEO: Opening the door to animal testing

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Open the door to animal testing

May 15 2014 Last updated at 13:23 BST

Animal researchers in the UK have committed to signed transparent about the nature of their experiences.

Opening on Animal Research Concordat was signed by 72 organizations from the outset, including universities, bio-industry, charities and research councils companies.

The scientific community has long recognized the need to engage with the public about animal research, but for fear of being deprived of much targeted by opposing evidence.

The hope is that better information about when, how and why the animals used for research purposes to help the public decide on the costs and benefits of animal testing.

In a self-signed certificate for the film BBC Newsnight , keeps surgeon Gabriel Weston the advantages and disadvantages of the tests of access to a medical research center is given and investigated alternatives to animal experiments.

5.14.2014

VIDEO: Deep Sea 'cemetery' filmed

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Filmed deepwater "cemetery" Offshore Angola

May 13 2014 Last updated at 17:21 BST clock

The accidental discovery of a "graveyard" at sea help scientists shed light on the fate of the dead giants of the sea.

Recorded videos of the oil and gas found the bodies of four large sea creatures on a small portion of the ocean floor off the coast of Angola.

Around three people killed by the whale shark and stingrays, scavengers came, Mana food.

Researcher Dr Nick Higgs told the BBC to explain what scientists have discovered.

The results were published in the journal PLoS ONE .

VIDEO: Crew Capsule, gravity

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Safe landing Soyuz crew leave the ISS

May 14 2014 Last updated at 07:53 BST

A Russian Soyuz space capsule with three astronauts who spent six months aboard the International Space Station landed in the Kazakh steppe.

Russian Mikhail Tyurin, American Rick Mastracchio Koichi Wakata from Japan and had spent all of 188 days in space.

5.12.2014

AUDIO: Scientists can induce lucid dreams "

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"Can induce lucid dreams" Scientists

May 12 2014 Last updated at 11:41 BST

German scientists have found that they can increase the number of lucid "most" of the people, sends weak electrical signals in the brain dreams.

Michael Nitsche, a professor of clinical neurophysiology at the University of Göttingen Graduate School, explained that during this lucid dreams, it is sometimes possible that the dreamer to control the field.

The researchers hope their findings on the treatment of mental illness and those who suffer from sleep disorders.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 's Today program Monday, May 12

VIDEO: The "Osprey" operation in Wales

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Eagle "in Wales

May 12 2014 Last updated at 07:35 BST clock

Ospreys are among the rarest bird species in the UK. A couple has been from Africa to the same nest each spring migration in Wales.

They returned again in March this year to lay their eggs.

To protect them, a team of volunteers to monitor the nest 24 hours.

Tim Muffett reports.

VIDEO: Jelly Fish "tank size"

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Washed Jellyfish "container size" in Dorset

May 12, 2014 Last update 14:01 BST clock

Dozens of giant jellyfish have been washed into the beaches of Dorset.

Duncan Kennedy BBC was why.

5.08.2014

VIDEO: Colin Pillinger space science dies

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Mission to Mars Colin Pillinger scientific tools

May 8 2014 Last updated at 10:34 BST

The British scientist Colin Pillinger global, which is for his 2003 attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars, known, has died at the age of 70, his family said.

Professor Pillinger was at his home in Cambridge, where he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a deep coma.

According to his family later died at Addenbrookes hospital, without regaining consciousness.

His death was "devastating and unbelievable," said in a statement.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

5.07.2014

VIDEO: "The Dream" Tyrannosaur Paleontologist

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"The Dream" Tyrannosaur discovery paleontologist

May 7, 2014 Last updated at 12:52 BST

A new species of tyrannosaur with a long nose was nicknamed "Rex Pinocchio".

The wild carnivores, nine feet long with a distinctive snout cornea, was a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

His skeleton was unearthed at a construction site and identified by Chinese scientists at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Dr. Steve Brusatte, the co-author of the study and is a member of the Chancellor vertebrate paleontology at the University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences, said it would be "faster and more agile than T-Rex."

VIDEO: Rain of fish in Sri Lanka surprise

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Showers of fish in Sri Lanka surprise

May 6, 2014 Last updated on 17:04 BST

Villagers in western Sri Lanka were surprised and delighted when she on Monday an unusual rains that experienced more than 50 kg of fish contain.

It is good that the animals removed from the nearby river, and is not the first incident of its kind in Sri Lanka. In 2012, a case of shrimp was recorded rain in the south.

5.06.2014

VIDEO: "helmet" is used to treat depression

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Technique uses the treatment of depression a new helmet therapy

May 6, 2014 Last updated on 00:31 BST

A headset that provides electromagnetic impulses to the brain has promise in the treatment of people shown with depression, according to Danish researchers.

About 30% of the disease does not respond to medication or counseling.

The new device is to remove blood cells are directed in the brain incorrectly.

In clinical studies of two-thirds who have used, have reported that their symptoms disappeared and improves mood in the week to see.

The hull was tested in 65 patients with treatment-resistant depression in Denmark and New Zealand.

The chief architect of the hull, Professor Steen Dissing, University of Copenhagen, and one of his subjects spoke to the BBC how the helmet and the effect it has.

Video journalist Malcolm Brabant

5.05.2014

VIDEO: New blood the secret of youth?

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Age research: new blood might be the secret of youth?

May 5, 2014 Last updated at 07:16 BST

The secret of reversing the aging process are found in the blood of young people. According to a new study

Scientists experimented with mice found older animals was stronger, better and mentally exercised when injected blood plasma of young mice.

Tim Allman reports.

5.04.2014

VIDEO: Repair of flood damage shore

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Repair damaged banks by floods in Surrey

May 4, 2014 Last updated on 09:43 BST

Damage that has resulted from floods earlier this year, still an influence in some parts of the United Kingdom - including over a distance of five miles from the River Mole in Surrey, which has overflowed four months ago.

Specialists have the Environment Agency teams came to see how they repair their defenses.

Nick Beake further work.

5.02.2014

VIDEO: Mantes equipped with 3D glasses

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Mantises come with 3D glasses to see Newcastle

May 1, 2014 at 21:03 clock Last updated BST

Scientists at Newcastle University have installed Mantis with 3D glasses.

The aim is to study the vision of creatures - the only known insect to see in 3D.

It is expected that the proposed £ 1 million to the development of the vision of robotics and computer science.

Informa Sharon Barbour.

5.01.2014

VIDEO: Track Your DNA 1000 years

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New research says it can make its DNA traces 1000 years

May 1, 2014 Last updated at 09:26 BST

Have you ever tried to trace your family tree? If so, how do they manage to come back?

A scientist says he has to follow a path where our DNA is formed found, there are more than 1000 years.

The test could identify in. even be able to make the locality of particular ancestors lived

Jenny Hill reports.

VIDEO: Lead teacher goldfish

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Smart Tank: Time to catch a ride?

May 1, 2014 at 13:15 clock Last updated BST

A digital design company in the Netherlands has developed a prototype chip tray that moves on wheels in response to the movements of the fish.

The company, Studio Diip, launched the idea in the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, which has begun over the Netherlands.

Thomas De Wolf, co-founder of Studio Diip, told the BBC how the device works, and measures to protect the welfare of the fish.

Video Journalist: Dougal Shaw

Fish Tank Videos and Photos courtesy of Studio Diip

VIDEO: marten survey "photo bombs"

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Squirrel survey sable rare "photo-bombs

April 30, 2014 Last updated at 18:26 BST clock

Scientists behind a project to red squirrels in County Fermanagh monitoring was after finding a rather difficult mammal was "photo-bombing" of their research surprised.

Pine Martens have been seen on camera in the forests of Fermanagh, but as a red or gray squirrel.

Julian Fowler reports.