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Unseen 2019: Silence of the bees
The state of bees, and work from Dr Axel Brockmann's Honey Bee lab at NCBS is covered by the Live Mint in this article.
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NCBS scientists study carbon cycle in rainforests
In the backdrop of climate change, NCBS, a subsidiary of TIFR, has taken up a study on the carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption by evergreen forests of Western Ghats, at Nilkunda forest area in Siddapur taluk.
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Congratulations! Chandni Gurusrikar awarded Sanctuary Asia's Wildlife Service Award 2019
Chandni Gurusrikar has been awarded Sanctuary Asia's Wildlife Service Award 2019. The award recognises her work with the local communities, the forest department and various other stakeholders to protect and conserve the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary and the river Cauvery.
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CNRS President Antoine Petit visits BLiSC
On 18 December, 2019, the Bangalore Life Science Cluster was visited by a delegation from the French National Centre for Scientific Research, led by Prof. Antoine Petit, President, CNRS.
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Wildlife warrior Vinod Rishi Sanctuary award
A software engineer from Karnataka, Chandni Gurusrikar, who was involved in conservation projects across the landscapes of Bandipur, Nagarhole and Bhadra tiger reserves, received the wildlife service award of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation.
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The fly on the wall: ever wondered how it lands there?
A new study from the National Centre of Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, has thrown some light on the mystery of how flies can land on vertical and upside-down surfaces. Sanjay Sane’s group at NCBS has shown that fly landing maneuvers have two distinct modules of behavior – deceleration and leg extension. The team has found that deceleration or slowing down, is like a reflex action, and sets in at a distance proportional to the speed of flight. In other words, at higher flight speeds, deceleration sets in earlier and further away from the landing surface.
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New snake species found in Arunachal
Researchers have discovered a new species of non-venomous burrowing snake in Arunachal Pradesh, named Trachischium apteii.
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Hear the flutter of wings
Thanks to efforts from the Bengaluru Butterfly Club (BBC), Karnataka Forest Department and the Indian Foundation for Butterflies (of the National Centre for Biological Sciences - NCBS), the awareness, conservation and detailed documentation of butterflies has helped to have on record more than 170 species found in Bengaluru alone.
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Search Results Web results River Ganga and its boats have become far too noisy for the river dolphins to communicate
In aquatic environments, like the inland rivers in India, the waters are muddy. The visibility is poorer in these parts from more clearer blue oceanic waters. Many of the animals living in these waterways rely far more on sound than sight for their survival.
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Surprise Discovery: Chemical Defenses by Crops Backfire, Make Pests Stronger!
Pests continuously adapt and become resistant to our efforts to eliminate them, and as ecologists at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) discovered recently, this happens in nature too, in the fight between plants and insects.