Vodafone maternity leave for all female employees globally
British telecoms giant Vodafone Group plc said it will introduce a mandatory global minimum level of maternity leave, including 16 weeks on full pay,...
Ban Islamic radicals from working with kids unsupervised, Home Office
Among some of the UK Government's proposed measures to combat the growing threat from religious extremists, the Home Office is considering banning Islamic radicals from...
Shy males are better mates and have superior-quality sperm, in the crab world
Shy males are superior specimens, they are better mates because of their top-quality sperm, say British and American scientists after carrying out a study on...
Britain must prepare itself for self-driving cars, MPs say
Britain must prepare itself for a future where driverless cars interact with manually-driven vehicles, said a group of MPs.
The Commons transport committee said that...
Solar eclipse plus Supermoon on March 20th across UK, says Met Office
People across the UK will be able to view a Supermoon and a solar eclipse virtually at the same time, which the Met Office...
Earth-like planet 20m light years away does exist, say UK scientists
In 2014, scientists discarded mysterious signals pointing to an Earth-like planet 20 million light years away as just noise in the data caused by...
Pollution video banished by Chinese censors after 200m people watched it
An online documentary exposing the serious harms to human health of severe pollution in China, and how industrialists are flouting environmental laws, was watched...
Google is working on android based virtual reality software
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is developing android based virtual reality software.
The California-based company apparently has "tens of engineers" that are working on...
Cockroach cyborg a reality at Texas A&M University
If you think a cockroach cyborg - that is a normal roach hooked up to a miniature computer that does whatever you want –...
Giant panda at zebra crossing caught on video camera in Chinese town
A wild giant panda was caught on camera using a zebra crossing as it roamed about in a town in southwest China's Sichuan Province...