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Scientists to talk in Kannada and Tamil on genetics at Jigyasa
Mandran and NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences) have put together Jigyasa event for 2018, themed on Traditional Knowledge meets Modern Science. The event starts at 9.30 am on December 15, 2018 at the Dasheri Hall in the NCBS campus in Kodigehalli, Bangalore.
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Central government's advisor gets a gecko named after him
When Principal scientific advisor to Government of India Pro
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It’s raining geckos in the Northeast
In a series of collaborative studies, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru; Villanova University, USA; and the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, have discovered eight new species of bent-toed geckos from Northeast India.
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Now science can speak your lingo
On Saturday, the scientists and researchers at the ‘Traditio
On Saturday, the scientists and researchers at the ‘Traditio -
It’s not love, but the tension in your cells that governs life
In a recent study, Mr Joseph Thottacherry of NCBS, along with his collaborators from other Indian and Spanish institutes, has tried to understand how cells maintain their shapes in spite of expelling material from their membrane.
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NCBS scientists study carbon cycle in rainforests
In the backdrop of climate change, the National Centre for Biological Sciences, a subsidiary of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, has taken up a study on the carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption by evergreen forests of Western Ghats.
A 30-member scientists team, led by Dr Mahesh Shankaran and Dr Jayashri Ratnam, is conducting such studies in four places across the country.
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Dhara Mehrotra’s latest artistic project reveals some extraordinary insights about nature
This year Dhara Mehrotra spent time as our Artist-in-Residence outreach program at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).
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Foresting natural grasslands: Ecological threat
If you were to ask if we should grow more forests, a typical reply would be, “Of course, forests help fight global warming” or that “forests harbour life.” However, did you know that “growing” artificial forests, which replace the existing landscape, is not always the best of choices? Yes, although it seems counter-intuitive, artificial forests may sometimes do more harm than good.
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How Sri Lanka got its lizards
Researchers set out to understand how the island’s biodiversity might have been influenced by its shared geological history with India, by studying the evolutionary history of the common house gecko and its close relatives in India and Sri Lanka.