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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.

Researchers at Duke University believe there is a way to catch CEOs lying investor calls - using a technique called Layered Voice Analysis to listen for tiny signals that they are not telling the truth.

Nasa's 'Blue Marble' images are a tribute to a photo taken by Apollo astronauts in 1972. It released one last month, taken by its latest satellite - but has bowed to popular demand and released the other half.

Hubble has captured an incredibly sharp view of the heart of a galaxy just like ours - showing the 'bar' of glowing gas being pulled towards the black hole at the galaxy's centre.

This breathtaking picture of America's east coast at night shows the thin veil of atmosphere which protects all life on earth from the harsh and inhospitable environment of outer space.

This Caparo T1, being advertised for sale by Stratton Motor Company in Norwich, was designed to be the closest thing to a road-legal F1 car. It can go from 100mph to zero in just three seconds.

The nano quadrotors have been programmed by a team at the University of Pennsylvania, to carry out autonomous swarm behaviour.

Contact lenses with screens could be on sale as early as 2014, says U.S. company Innovega.The tiny 'screens' sit directly on users' eyeballs and focus images and information into their eyes.

European regulators have written to Google CEO Larry Page calling on the search giant to halt the introduction of its new 'one-size-fits-all' privacy policy while privacy authorities investigate.

Retailer slashes the price of a 10 megapixel EasyShare Mini compact to a record low of just £25, following the bankruptcy of Kodak's U.S. arm.

Leaks from within Microsoft have revealed a suite of hi-tech new features for Microsoft's Windows Phone - including new software that will let the phones share apps with Windows PCs.

Conservative politics, as practised by the likes of British PM David Cameron, work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others, academics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, claim.

Twitter fans think that only a third of Tweets are worth looking at - and a quarter are actively disliked for reasons including constant updates about where people are.

Nasa's twin Grail probes are now orbiting the moon with a mission to measure its gravity. One sent back its first video - showing the crater-scarred surface of the side we never see from Earth.

A telescope in Chile detected a planet that is described as 'perhaps the best new candidate for life': a rocky planet with a temperature that may be similar to Earth's - which could have seas like ours.

Rhode Island University scientists have observed an effect of evolution never seen before in the wild- by transporting forest lizards to islands stripped bare of vegetation by hurricane Frances.

A Harvard professor used computer models to work out what causes the cycles of ice ages and melting - and found that a century-old idea about earth's axis is the only idea that fits.

The abandoned megalopolis, which features vast subterranean highways, paths and gardens, was found buried beneath the earth in Brazil.

Google is censoring blogs on its Blogger service in line with 'requests' from local governments. The move has echoes of Twitter's recent announcement that it was to censor Tweets at government request.

Researchers at the University of Montreal used photos ranging from war photos to kittens to test which men and women remembered best - and found women 'blot out' unpleasant memories.