Learnt behaviour is passed down generations not just in highly intelligent species.

Understanding the effect of the small ridges on the Jabulani ball in use this World Cup.

If a national monument to the gas tragedy is also to be a reminder of mistakes made, then we should consider putting up statues of a few senior Congressmen.

Eternal life is still fantasy, but advances in medical science could turn back the clock on your physical age sooner than you think.

Six men undergo an 18-month ordeal in a confined space to check if humans can make it to the Red Planet.

Civil society loves the National Advisory Council, but it is ultimately an extra-constitutional entity framing policies without any accountability.

Human infants over-imitate even irrelevant steps in doing a task. It distinguishes us from apes.

A new result in particle physics reveals why matter, rather than anti-matter, makes up much of the universe, but current theories have no explanation for it.

Craig Venter may not have created artificial life, but what he has done may be at least as significant.

Elephants need to eat for 18 hours a day. Large dinosaurs would need to have eaten for 30 hours a day. How then did they manage to get so big?