HOW BUTTERFLY COMMUNITIES EVOLVE INTO A GAME OF WARNING AND DECEIPT!

Students from Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte's Biodiversity Lab have discovered some secrets of a long evolutionary game through which butterflies come to warn, fool and escape their predators using traits such as wing colour patterns and flight

National Centre for Biological Sciences congratulates Vinothkumar Kutti Ragunath for being selected as a member to join the EMBO Global Investigator Network ! 

Congratulations!

Shivaprasad is a plant biologist and faculty at TIFR-NCBS. He is interested in understanding epigenetic modifications that result in gene silencing involving small RNAs in plants. His lab is involved in generating newer tools for crop improvement via a multi-disciplinary approach.

We congratulate Prof. P V Shivaprasad for getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)!

I switched off the ceiling fan, in case the Nawab decided to fly high in a fit of pique. But the Nawab remained glued to his blue throne.

Indigenous tech to be available to farmers at a fraction of import costs

The video shows a little black tiger cub accompanied by its mother moving in the forest seemingly at night.

Bengaluru: Factors such as new environments, climates, competition, and habitats are known to lead to the formation of different species. However, the changes that individuals undergo during evolution are still an area of study.

The researchers studied fly species in Bengaluru, where they tried to find if changes in their brains could encourage them to further evolve.

Computers are solving problems no human could ever decode — and in ways that feel distinctly nonhuman to us. Should we embrace or rethink the strange intelligence of machines?