The British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.

They praised his "courage and persistence" and said his "brilliance and humour" inspired people across the world.

For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals - strange crystals that have an atomic structure that repeats not just in space, but in time, putting them in perpetual motion without energy.

A time crystal is like constantly oscillating jelly in its natural, ground state, and that's what makes it a whole new form of matter - non-equilibrium matter. It's incapable of sitting still.

“So the CDC basically reported that there was nothing in our medicine cabinet to treat this lady,” said Dr. Randall Todd, division director of epidemiology and public health preparedness for the Washoe County Health District.

Once the drug-resistant bug is identified, staff need to implement a precautionary plan to keep it from spreading. That includes strict hand washing and other hygienic practices.

Many people believe that synthetic sweeteners will help them lose weight. But it turns out that one common substitute for sugar actually blocks the function of an enzyme that is essential for preventing obesity.

Why does aspartame not aid weight loss? "We found that aspartame blocks a gut enzyme called intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP)," explains Professor Hodin, who teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Molton has now tried this on 200 patients, and says it has allowed him to assess their treatment results in a more accurate and unbiased way. “When you place filler in certain parts of the face, it’s not just that part that reacts,” says Molton. “If you put it in the side of the cheeks, there’s an upward lift of the jawline as well.”

If people think they are being shown exactly how they will look, they may end up feeling disappointed, says Hussain. “We see this with rhinoplasty. Some surgeons use computer generations to show what their noses might look like, but you can’t always get that result surgically.”

Scientists are pioneering the ability to tweak our DNA to wipe out disease and maybe even allow us to choose desirable traits in our unborn children, like height or intelligence. None of these technologies have moved out of the lab, but Americans are already uncomfortable with them.

But to me, the more important point raised was the concern that technological enhancements could lead to greater inequality—that the rich could pay to live longer, healthier lives, and the poor couldn’t.

In experiments, the LTST method extended the milk's shelf life (typically 8 to 14 days) to up to 63 days. Millisecond Technologies (MST) developed the process, which uses a heated, pressurized chamber to quickly raise and lower the temperature of the liquid. The method was first used on juice, but the company later switched its focus to milk. It's in the process of rolling out the technology on a commercial scale.

CERN's search for exotic particles has been put on hold for a couple of weeks – after a small mammal gnawed through a power cable, incinerated itself and killed current to the world's most expensive scientific instrument.

It's not the first time the LHC has run into trouble from wildlife. In 2009 The Reg broke the story of a bird shutting down the LHC after a bird dropped a piece of bread into one of the LHC's outside substation, temporarily disabling it.

Last fall, the 45-year-old Seattle-area woman underwent an experimental type of gene therapy aimed at addressing some of the big effects of aging, including loss of muscle mass and a shortening of the chromosomes’ telomeres.

“Over 100,000 people die every day of aging diseases,” she said. “Somebody told me today, they said, ‘You’re so brave.’ Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. What’s brave is knowing that there could be a cure for aging diseases, and not taking it, and deciding that you’re going to wither away. I’m not that brave.”

The silk gown is now on display at the Kaap Skil Maritime and Beachcombers Museum on Texel Island in the Netherlands. Divers explored a wreck near the island in 2014 and found the dress buried in the sand.

The dress, woven from silk with a floral pattern, is complete and seems to have belonged to a noblewoman. The museum dates it back to the first half of the 17th century.