In an attempt to tackle the problem of congestion, scientists at the Mobile Robotics department at the University of Oxford - in collaboration with defence contractor BAe Systems and carmaker Nissan - have created a hands-free robot car!

A team of astronomers have for the first time captured of the interstellar turbulent gas in the Milky Way, commonly described as a pit of writhing snakes.

The images showed that space among stars in the Milky Way is not empty; rather it is filled with endlessly swirling and churning gas.

Chivalry is not dead among male crickets as they prioritize the lives of their mating partners ahead of their own, researchers have found.

Researchers monitored a wild population of field crickets (Gryllus campestris) in Spain using ninety-six infrared cameras and microphones, and found that male crickets give their female partners priority access to the safety of a burrow.

Despite the day-long attempts of the volunteers from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) to rescue a whale beached on South Uist in the Western Isles, the animal died as it had been out of water for too long.

A Long March 2F rocket will blast off on Thursday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu Province to take China's first space laboratory, called Tiangong-1, into the space.

The 10.5m-long, unmanned cylindrical module is designed to remain in orbit for around two year after launch.

According to the findings of a new research, carried out by physicists at the Universidat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, materials having a magnetic signature can effectively be concealed with the help of an `anti-magnet' that could cloak an object's magnetic response, leaving the external magnetic fields unchanged.