The strictly carnivorous Pallid and Montagu's Harriers are confirmed to be crucial secondary seed dispersers in India, rescuing viable seeds from the digestive tracts of their prey and playing an important role in maintaining the biodiversity of threatened grassland ecosystems.

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What is the importance of Social Distancing in these times of global crisis?

 टाटा मूलभूत संशोधन संस्था, मुंबई येथील संशोधकांनी 'आहार आणि उपास' यादरम्यान घडणाऱ्या उलथापालथीमध्ये ऊर्जा निर्मितीचे संतुलन राखण्यासाठी सूक्ष्मआरएनए पेशींना कशी मदत करतात ते शोधून काढले आहे. 

 

In 2008, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced Aditya-1, India's first solar mission to study the Sun. This ambitious endeavour, with various indigenously-developed instruments onboard, holds much promise for our scientific community as they expect to unravel the mysteries of our closest star, the Sun. Now renamed as Aditya L1, the data from the instruments onboard are expected to be a treasure-trove of information on the dynamic processes on the Sun's surface and its atmosphere.

 

In a recent study, researchers have described how chickpea evades blight infection, thus paving the way to develop a blight-tolerant mustard variety.

 

In this episode of The Joy of Science, Shambhavi Chidambaram speaks to Professor Shravan Vasishth, an Indian-origin professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Potsdam in Germany. In addition to his research, Prof Vasishth is an author of two interesting blogs—“Shravan Vasishth’s Slog”, where he talks about statistics, and “Things People Say”, a moving personal blog about his experiences of dealing with kidney failure and hemodialysis, and navigating the German health care system. 

A new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, shows that dogs too have developed strategies to coexist with humans, and numbers play a role in it. 

Vehicular exhaust is a significant cause of air pollution in India, resulting in the rise of many

Research shows a regional nuclear conflict could affect global crop yields and food supply

In February, when the news of the first few confirmed cases of coronavirus in India came to light, we as a nation warmed up to the ‘Wuhan virus’, now at our doorstep.

भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान बॉम्बे के नेतृत्व में शोधकर्ताओं ने चेन्नई में बाढ़ का पूर्वानुमान लगाने के लिए एक प्रणाली डिज़ाइन की है।

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