Understanding the effect of the small ridges on the Jabulani ball in use this World Cup.
Six men undergo an 18-month ordeal in a confined space to check if humans can make it to the Red Planet.
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?
A long debated question has been answered. Humans and Neanderthals did interbreed and their genes live on within most of us.
A diet rich in capsaicin, the active ingredient in red chillies, burns fat more rapidly than an equivalent diet that lacks capsaicin.
Dreams of a task being learnt improve performance, suggesting that they may be by-products of memory processing.
Probably, because tendencies to stereotype may be a result of genes that encode social fear.