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  • How does a species fight extinction?

    How does a species fight extinction?

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    10 September 2025

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

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  • How do cells build organs without a blueprint?

    How do cells build organs without a blueprint?

    Research Explained
    10 September 2025

    For cells to form functional organs, they must not only multiply but also migrate to the correct loc

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  • A new database to predict protein function without complete 3D structural information.

    A new database to predict protein function without complete 3D structural information.

    Research Explained
    23 August 2025

    Proteins drive nearly every process within a cell.

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  • Social status shapes how we handle stress

    Social status shapes how we handle stress

    Research Explained
    29 July 2025

    In the animal kingdom, social hierarchies are everywhere - from hornets to hyenas to humans.

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  • Tracing the origins of a key enzyme in multicellularity

    Tracing the origins of a key enzyme in multicellularity

    Research Explained
    16 July 2025

    Effective communication between cells is fundamental to the success of multicell

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  • How Red foxes survive among free-ranging dogs in the Indian Trans-Himalaya

    How Red foxes survive among free-ranging dogs in the Indian Trans-Himalaya

    Research Explained
    14 July 2025

    Across the globe, the spread of human settlements has brought with it the rise of our most familia

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  • Cellular changes linked to Parkinson’s disease observed in cells across the body

    Cellular changes linked to Parkinson’s disease observed in cells across the body

    Research Explained
    11 July 2025

    Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is no longer seen solely as a brain disorder affecting movement.

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  • Primitive multicellular clusters used metabolically driven flows for exponential growth

    Primitive multicellular clusters used metabolically driven flows for exponential growth

    Research Explained
    21 June 2025

    At least 20 times in the history of evolution, and possibly several times more, single-celled organisms have transitioned i

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  • Newly discovered histone variant provides resilience to rice plants against salt stress

    Newly discovered histone variant provides resilience to rice plants against salt stress

    Research Explained
    12 June 2025

    In most organisms, excluding archaea and a few eubacteria, histones–

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  • Butterflies hid secrets of species evolution behind their mimicry

    Butterflies hid secrets of species evolution behind their mimicry

    Research Explained
    09 June 2025

    Papilio polytes

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    Exhibition brings together science, art in one place

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    Watch: Black tiger cub roams with its mother in the wild

    NCBS makes News
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  • Ashoka varsity prof bags 50,000 Euro nature conservation award

    Ashoka varsity prof bags 50,000 Euro nature conservation award

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    Feb 21, 2019
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    What Does Big Data Have to Do With Wildlife Conservation?

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