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  • Butterflies hid secrets of species evolution behind their mimicry

    Butterflies hid secrets of species evolution behind their mimicry

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    09 June 2025

    Papilio polytes

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  • How Scientists Are Solving Tiger-Livestock Conflicts in India

    How Scientists Are Solving Tiger-Livestock Conflicts in India

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    19 May 2025

    Wildlife management is a balancing act, especially where predators like tigers share space with people and their livestock, tussling to co-exist in human-dominated, fragmented landscapes.

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  • Hacking time for improving cancer therapies

    Hacking time for improving cancer therapies

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    14 May 2025

    Taking the right medicine is not always enough to cure a disease.

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  • How Himalayan plants adapt to life on the edge

    How Himalayan plants adapt to life on the edge

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    02 May 2025

    In high mountain environments, plants live on a tight schedule.

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  • Brain’s inherent smart sensors that track cell health, signal onset of neurodegenerative disorders

    Brain’s inherent smart sensors that track cell health, signal onset of neurodegenerative disorders

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    10 March 2025

    A latest study from National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR) has proposed that a key protein found in the brain can act as a natural smart sensor hinting at impending neurodegeneration in cells.

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  • A new target for defeating tuberculosis

    A new target for defeating tuberculosis

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    03 March 2025

    One of the difficult and never-ending struggles of our time is Tuberculosis, a disease caused by

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  • Two Decades of Tiger Conservation in India: Hope for global megafauna recovery

    Two Decades of Tiger Conservation in India: Hope for global megafauna recovery

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    31 January 2025

    A new study published in Science showcases the remarkable recovery of India's tiger population.

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  • Alternate Life Form: Mirror bacteria could pose unprecedented risks

    Alternate Life Form: Mirror bacteria could pose unprecedented risks

    Research Explained
    13 December 2024

    Many of the building blocks of life, such as nucleic acid and proteins, are asymmetrical. They can exist in one of two possible mirror-image forms, and their mirror images cannot be superimposed on each other. For instance, amino acids are predominantly “left-handed”, while sugars are “right-handed”. This property is known as chirality, and it plays a critical role in the building blocks of life.

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  • Geometry and Mechanics of Wounded Tissue Determine Healing Outcomes

    Geometry and Mechanics of Wounded Tissue Determine Healing Outcomes

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    11 December 2024

    Scientists have long been fascinated by how tissues heal, and much of this research has focused on the ep

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  • What Beetles Can Teach Us About Population Growth

    What Beetles Can Teach Us About Population Growth

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    28 November 2024

    In the twentieth century, improvements in public health infrastructure and medic

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