Researchers are using luminescence dating to date samples of the mineral jarosite from Kachchh, Gujarat. Due to its geological similarities, this mineral is considered a good Martian analogue.

NCBS

Dehradun
17 May 2025

Researchers undertook a comprehensive snow leopard survey covering 59,000 square kilometres of Ladakh's terrain using camera traps and field surveys.

Bengaluru
10 May 2025

New research shows how tiny saliva, hair, or scat traces can accurately identify individual carnivores, paving the way for smarter conflict resolution.

Bengaluru
9 May 2025

Researchers study how auditory epithelial cells in chicks simultaneously coordinate position and orientation to arrange themselves lining the inner ear.

Calicut
20 Feb 2025

Researchers have discovered two new species of dragonflies from the Western Ghat - Merogomphus aryanadensis from Kerala and Merogomphus flavoreductus from Maharashtra.

Bengaluru
12 Nov 2024

Investigating the implications of bacterial morphology in complex surroundings, a study by NCBS sheds light on survival strategies and ecological adaptation.

Bengaluru
10 Jan 2023

A river meanders lazily through the plains but, in rocky terrain, might tumble rapidly down as a waterfall, sometimes in multiple cascades. Charles Darwin had earlier proposed that changes in the characteristics of organisms happen very slowly over time and generations, just like the river’s gentle flow.

Bengaluru
22 Mar 2022

Researchers solve the packing matrix of proteins that control protein complexes on cell surfaces.

Bengaluru
19 Apr 2021

Researchers have compared the visual abilities of butterflies and moths.

Bengaluru
12 Nov 2020

Scientists have successfully grown Indian isolates of P. vivax in different types of human liver cells.

Bengaluru
19 Oct 2020

(a) Shola reedtail (Protosticta sholai) [Image credits: K. A. Subramanian]; (b) blue-legged reedtail (Protosticta cyanofemora) [Image credits: Shantanu Joshi]; (c) Myristica reedtail (Protosticta myristicaensis) [Image credits: Shantanu Joshi]