Wearable tech: Four-year-old Australian boy receives world's first artificial pancreas
Xavier Hames has been fitted with an insulin pump that will help manage his type 1 diabetes
Drug-resistant TB came from Asia 6,600 years ago and spread due to fall of Soviet Union
The population of killer virus strain MDR TB grew sharply in the 1820s and then again in the 1990s.
US: Pizza is 'second highest source of calories after desserts' for children
Researchers say pizza should join the ranks of fast food and sugary drinks as nutrition no-no's.
Will Doomsday Clock hand move forward again? Major announcement set for this week
Top scientists might move the minute hand on the clock due to climate change and nuclear tensions.
Exeter Cathedral hoping to excavate ancient Roman baths found beneath its land
Exeter Cathedral has put in a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for £8.7m to restore the Roman baths.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Watch Japanese office workers freak out in giant robot attack prank
Japanese office workers tricked into thinking they were being attacked by a Zaku II enemy mobile suit.
Amphipolis Greek tomb: Bones of at least five people including woman and baby found
Bones belonging to two men, a woman, a baby and a cremated adult person have been found in the tomb.
Kuratas: Giant wearable mecha robot suit currently for sale on Amazon Japan for $1m
Mobile Suit Gundam fans can now buy their own working mecha if they have ¥ 120,000,000 to spare
Egypt: Mummy mask found to contain 'oldest known gospel' from first century AD
Ordinary Ancient Egyptians wore mummy masks that were often made from recycled pieces of papyrus.
Ghost Boy: Meet Martin Pistorius who spent 8 years trapped inside a paralysed body
Fully conscious but unable to move, Pistorius heard his mother tell him that she hoped he died.
Nevada: Archaeologists discover 132-year-old Winchester rifle propped against tree since 1882
The Winchester Model 1873 rifle was left in the Nevada desert, but no one knows who left it or why.
Back to the Future: Vodafone launches 1984G Street to honour UK's first mobile phone call
Vodafone is celebrating its 30th birthday with a pop-up 1980s high street in Covent Garden.
Anthropocene era: Humans changed the Earth's geology by setting off atomic bombs in 1945
Scientists say humans started a new geological era in 1945 with the start of the nuclear age.
Mac 2015: Check out this cool concept PC inspired by the first ever Macintosh
CURVED/labs has designed a touchscreen desktop mac modelled on the first Macintosh.
Why sleep paralysis can leave you unable to move and seeing intruders in your bedroom
Sleep paralysis occurs when a person wakes up during REM sleep, causing paralysed muscles and hallucinations.
UK entrepreneur John Cousins creates 3D-printed model of his kidney to help surgeons treat him
Cousins fell ill during a contract pitch and is using 3D-printing technology to help doctors cure him.
Huge mysterious asteroid to fly by Earth in closest encounter for centuries
Asteroid 2004 BL86 will pass Earth by a range of 745,000 miles on 26 January.
Hongshan: Chinese civilisation began 2,400 years earlier than previously thought
Researchers now think the Neolithic Hongshan culture is the source of Chinese civilisation.
Too much oxygen in the air could trigger lung cancer
Free radicals produced when the body processes oxygen can cause serious damage to cells and DNA.
ISS space worms: Japanese scientists probe roundworm to solve astronaut health problems
JAXA is studying roundworms on the International Space Station to help cure bone and muscle diseases.
Facebook Likes show computers are more accurate in judging personality than family or friends
Using big data to mine Facebook Likes can predict a person's psychological traits better than humans.
Stop wasting cancer drugs on the terminally ill, says former health minister Lord Darzi
NHS should 'stop unnecessary tests and over-treatment in early and terminal states of cancer'.
Brazil: Half of women have caesarean births 'to avoid damaging sex lives'
Brazilian government forcing doctors to comply with stricter rules in effort to curb 'epidemic'.
Cirque du Soleil uses 3D-printing to guarantee 18,000 costumes have a perfect fit
Cirque du Soleil is 3D scanning all performers and wants to use 3D printing for sizing busts
Cyborg rats: Spinal implant breakthrough helps paralysed walk again
Swiss scientists have invented a spinal implant that sends drugs and electrical signals to the brain
Meet ChihiraAico, Toshiba's scarily realistic 'Robot Hostess' Android unveiled at CES 2015
Toshiba has showcased a prototype communication humanoid robot that can hold conversations, sing and cry.
Huffington Post, Yahoo News, AOL and TMZ hit by malware ads – over 1.5bn visitors at risk
Attackers have hijacked AOL's ad network to silently serve malicious ransomware ads that lock PCs.
Revolution CT scanner reveals 'detailed' animated 4D models of organs in real time
GE Healthcare's new CT scanner scans any part of the body in a fraction of a second.
Cangrande Della Scala: Murder mystery of Renaissance warlord solved using mummy poo
Archaeologists analysed faeces from Cangrande's mummy to discover he was poisoned with foxglove
China: 30 tombs, 28 chariots and 98 horse skeletons dating back 2,800 years found in Hubei
30 tombs dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period have been found in Zaoyang city, Hubei Province
