Scientists have found a mechanism to explain the startling diversity of animal colour patterns.
The male tendency to exaggerate flu symptoms finds support, as a new study suggests why this could be so.
Till recently, the events that led to dinosaurs’ dominance of the planet had remained unknown.
The physics behind the astounding charge of a bull elephant had remained somewhat of a mystery till recently.
New observations on a scale far beyond our solar system confirm Einstein’s theory of gravity and lend support to the existence of dark matter.
New genetic information shows that human societies have tended towards monogamy.
Hollywood films increasingly use shot lengths of a particular pattern that best holds our attention.
...may have prospered through the attention early gay men lavished on their nephews and nieces.
Breakthrough DNA sequencing research takes us a step closer to knowing where we came from.
From Newton to Einstein, understanding gravity has been the holy grail of physics. Professor T Padmanabhan of the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, spoke to Open of the work for which he was awarded the 2009 Infosys Prize for the Physical Sciences.