“When I was a student, Late Prof. K. S. Krishnan who was on the interview panel asked me, ‘how do flies land on the ceiling?’ Although seemingly an innocuous question, it turns out to be a really complex phenomenon,” says Prof Sanjay Sane from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. Now, after several years of research using the modern state of the art tools and months of video recordings his team has answered the question.

To break this language barrier in teaching science and technology, a small but growing number of initiatives have started platforms that discuss concepts in local languages. They want to make concepts in these subjects more accessible to those who do not know English. And technology, whether it is WhatsApp, YouTube or podcasts, makes it easy to disseminate information to a wider audience.
 

As the monsoon draws to a close, thousands of butterflies make their way to the Western Ghats

Ferries and other vessels in the Ganga produce underwater noise that's changing the echolocation behaviour of India's national aquatic animal.

A new side to the triangular story of interactions among plant, pest and predatory insect emerges as a result of a study carried out by researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. 

Researchers study the interplay between biology and mechanics to understand how flies land inverted on ceilings.

Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa gave away the State awards for scientists and engineers for 2018.

Thirteen Karnataka scientists including P.V SHivaprasad from NCBS were conferred with state awards.

The exhibition FOOD: Bigger than the Plate at London’s

The second edition of the Lab Culture series: Tracing the Making of a Collective brings out an array of artefacts from various practitioners of arts, science, design, and history.