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  • A new way to watch bacteria modify our proteins in real time

    A new way to watch bacteria modify our proteins in real time

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    24 October 2025

    Bacteria have evolved many clever ways to take over human cells during infection.

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  • Village relocations redraw the wildlife map

    Village relocations redraw the wildlife map

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    30 September 2025

    When Project Tiger was launched in 1973, efforts to carve out safe havens for tigers took on a new urgency.

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  • Ecological Factors Determine The Evolution of Antipredator Strategies of Animals

    Ecological Factors Determine The Evolution of Antipredator Strategies of Animals

    Research Explained
    26 September 2025

    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).

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  • How does a species fight extinction?

    How does a species fight extinction?

    Research Explained
    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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