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What Beetles Can Teach Us About Population Growth
In the twentieth century, improvements in public health infrastructure and medic
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Shape Rules Bacterial Growth in 3D
More than 300 years ago, Leeuwenhoek peered down his handmade lenses, and made mankind’s first-ever observ
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Discovering a CLASSY Way to Grow Bigger Rice Seeds
We inherit our looks and quirks from our parents. But, we are not an equal product of our parent's genes.
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Inside the brain: Dendrites help identify patterns
Have you ever wondered how your brain can tell the difference between the smell of morning coffee and the aroma of hot chocolate, even though they share som
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Birds’ Secret to Restoring Hearing
"What humiliation when any one beside me heard a flute in the far distance, while I heard nothing, or when others heard a sh
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Tracing the Genetic Footprints of India’s Elephants
Elephants are long-distance migrants. The populations in India, which make up 60% of the global Asian elephant population, began their migrations 100,000 years ago, gradually settling in different parts of the country. A record of these journeys can be found imprinted in the DNA sequences of today’s populations.
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Understanding Collateral Arteries: a detour to escape stroke
More deadly than bullets and earthquakes, strokes claim millions of lives each year.
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Potential therapeutics for celiac disease could lie in our gut
Wheat, rye, and barley are some of the oldest grains cultivated by humankind.
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How Does Rice Treat its Wounds?
Step on a snake, it bites back. Step on a plant, it suffers in silence? Actually, no. Like animals, plants too have survival strategies to help them endure and recover from such accidents. In the plant world, being nibbled on by herbivores or damaged by harsh weather is routine.
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Large Herbivores losing genetic connectivity in Central India
Habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity across the globe. Extensive development is fragmenting habitats, resulting in small, isolated patches of natural habitat within a broader mosaic of altered landscapes.