China has allocated 199 million yuan ( 29.76 million) to spend on its weather modification programme as part of efforts to combat drought and reduce the impact of natural disasters. The finance ministry revealed the project earlier this month, as state media reported flooding this year caused at least 237 deaths. The Ministry of Finance said the additional funding had been made available in order to help China's regions respond to the large number of'extreme weather events' this year, including heavy flooding in south and central regions as well as drought in the northwest. The Ministry of Finance said the additional funding had been made available in order to help China's regions respond to the large number of'extreme weather events' this year, including heavy flooding in south and central regions as well as drought in the northwest. Microscopic particles of silver iodide are shot into existing clouds using land based generators or aircraft.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

It may be many men's dream to have Scarlett Johansson tend to their every need. But one man has come close to making this fantasy a reality by building a look-a-like robot. He now plans on sharing his designs in a handbook, so other fans can create their own sexy androids too. The life-size robot was created by Hong Kong designer Ricky Ma, based on a famous Hollywood actress. A 3D-printed skeleton lies beneath Mark 1's silicone skin, wrapping its mechanical and electronic parts.

America's stealth submarines and being used to carry out cyberattacks and listen in on enemy computer networks, two US Navy officials have revealed. The secret offence capabilities were revealed at a recent Washington conference. 'There is a -- an offensive capability that we are, that we prize very highly,' said Rear Adm. Michael Jabaley, the U.S. Navy's program executive officer for submarines, at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington. It has previously been revealed the USS Annapolis (pictured) is among the submarines being used. 'This is where I really can't talk about much, but suffice to say we have submarines out there on the front lines that are very involved, at the highest technical level, doing exactly the kind of things that you would want them to do.'

Japanese scientists have unveiled a creepy humanoid robot that has complete control over its limb movements and facial expressions. The robot, 'Alter', is embedded with electronic sensors that mimic the neural network of the human brain. Alter's arms, head and facial expressions are controlled by these sensors, giving the robot a random pattern of movement eerily similar to a human's. Alter can even sing, converting the random movements of its fingers into a haunting synth melody. Alter is a humanoid robot designed by scientists in Japan.

Migratory birds use warm, rising currents of air to gain height using little energy to fly over long distances. But just how they navigate the height-boosting currents was a mystery, until now. Now, biologists have used mathematical models to demonstrate birds use'torque and vertical wind' to help them pick the most efficient soaring path through thermals. High fliers: Biologists have used mathematical models to demonstrate birds such as eagles (stock image) use'torque and vertical wind' to help them pick the most efficient soaring path through thermals Most migrating birds fly between 656 and 3,937 feet (200 to 1,200 metres) above sea level. When the wind s against them, they stay closer to Earth when obstacles like trees slow the wind down.

The idea of neural networks began unsurprisingly as a model of how neurons in the brain function, termed'connectionism' and used connected circuits to simulate intelligent behaviour .In 1943, portrayed with a simple electrical circuit by neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and mathematician Walter Pitts. Donald Hebb took the idea further in his book, The Organization of Behaviour (1949), proposing that neural pathways strengthen over each successive use, especially between neurons that tend to fire at the same time thus beginning the long journey towards quantifying the complex processes of the brain. In 1950s, as researchers began trying to translate these networks onto computational systems, the first Hebbian network was successfully implemented at MIT in 1954. Around this time, Frank Rosenblatt, a psychologist at Cornell, was working on understanding the comparatively simpler decision systems present in the eye of a fly, which underlie and determine the its flee response. In an attempt to understand and quantify this process, he proposed the idea of a Perceptron in 1958, calling it Mark I Perceptron.

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A Florida-based company has won U.S. government permission to send a robotic lander to the moon next year. The move is the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth's orbit. The Federal Aviation Administration's unprecedented go-ahead for the Moon Express mission also sets a legal and regulatory framework for a host of other commercial expeditions to the moon, asteroids and Mars. The Florida-based company Moon Express, which is partnering with Nasa, hopes to send scientific payloads to the Moon, in the hopes to eventually provide commercial services. Artist's impression of Moon Express lander on surface of the moon pictured The moon is a'treasure chest' of lucrative materials.

Facebook built its fortune on the internet, that non-physical space where people share updates and digital videos with friends. But deep inside its Silicon Valley headquarters, Facebook engineers have stocked a new lab with computerized lathes, industrial mills and tools for making physical goods. Model maker Spencer Burns, looks over a globe under construction inside a 5 axis vertical milling machine during a tour of Area 404, the hardware R&D lab, at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. Facebook engineers have stocked a new lab with computerized lathes, industrial mills and tools for making physical goods. The lab is dubbed Area 404, an inside joke playing off the'error 404' message that internet users see when they try to visit a web page that can't be found.