A walk through a forest can be a bewildering experience. The whole forest appears to be running wild with insects of varied colours, hues and behaviours. Many of these traits appear to be deployed in defense against visually-hunting predators such as birds and lizards. Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over the factors that determine when animals evolve to deter predators either through striking visual displays or by hiding in plain sight (i.e., camouflage).

Prof Mahesh Sankaran, faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru was awarded the J.C. Bose Grant 2025, by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation for the project titled:"Grasslands in the Anthropocene: global change impacts on grassland dynamics in the Indian subcontinent."

Sreepadmanabh M., graduate student of Dr Tapomoy Bhattacharjee at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru is elected as co-chair for the 2027 Soft Condensed Matter Physics Gordon Research Seminar. (GRS)

He also delivered an invited talk at this year's GRS on how physical environments actively regulate biological growth.

National Geographic has released a major cover story on the pseu

In the 1990s, when Kauai crickets in Hawaii sang love songs with their wings to attract mates, a new island visit