The unusual move aims to promote the country as an ideal place to develop artificial intelligence.
Tom Morgan managed to reach a height of 8,000ft by attaching helium balloons to a camping chair.
Scientists have captured footage of arctic jellyfish slithering along the bottom of the Chukchi Sea.
An intriguing optical illusion has been leaving social media users scratching their heads this week.
The search giant has developed an artificial intelligence capable of learning without human intervention.
For the first time ever, gravitational waves and light have been picked up from the same cosmic event.
Thousands of people watched online as the popular confectionery was launched in to the heavens on Friday.
A clip of the high-pitched sound that US diplomats have been hearing in Cuba has been uploaded online.
Photographs of a 'macho' marsupial standing in a creek in Western Australia have gone viral online.
Zeb Hallock managed to record the star-shaped echinoderm ambling along a beach in North Carolina.
Scientists made the alarming discovery during an investigation in to the prevalence of pesticide residue.
Eerie footage has emerged showing a series of allegedly paranormal disturbances at a school in Cork.
Petrina Murphy discovered the pythons wriggling around in her shower after they fell from a skylight.
Lockheed Martin is aiming to place a space station around Mars and to land astronauts on its surface.
Authorities in the US are urging people not to visit Cuba after a string of 'sonic' attacks on diplomats.
Elon Musk is hoping to land the first astronauts on the surface of Mars within as little as seven years.
Transport authorities in the United Arab Emirates are hoping to offer an autonomous flying taxi service.
New evidence has shed light on exactly how huge stone blocks were transported to the site of the pyramids.
ESA's ambitious 'Moon village' plan could see humans living on the lunar surface within 25 years.
A recent archaeological dig near Guernsey has yielded something rather unexpected - a porpoise skeleton.