The key to quantum computing may lie in the mechanism that drives photosynthesis.
The diversity of languages in the world may imply a certain element of selection.
Theoretical advances suggest that gravity may not be one of the fundamental forces of the universe.
The ratio of the golden proportion is cropping up in the strangest of places.
A new model solves a key problem in the theory of the formation of planets around a star.
Researchers soon hope to find drugs that mimic the anti-ageing and anti-cancer impacts of low-cal diets.
Born in Tamil Nadu, brought up in Baroda and now working at Cambridge, Dr Venkat Ramakrishnan on how his work on ribosomes brought him the ‘fringe benefit’ of a Nobel Prize in chemistry.
The impact of smell on taste is known to all, but even your sense of taste may influence what you smell.
A chance discovery in a laboratory leads scientists to a blue pigment that is close to perfection.
Physicists in Sweden have come up with a mathematical fingerprint that could identify an author.