Despite successful bans on the veterinary drug diclofenac in Nepal and parts of India, a decade-long undercover investigation reveals that toxic alternatives like flunixin and nimesulide are rapidly replacing it, posing a renewed existential threat to the region’s critically endangered vulture populations.

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Mumbai

Researchers at IIT Bombay uncover how strain fields produced by embedded inhomogeneities within biomaterials influence cell alignment, reshaping our understanding of cell behaviour in development, disease, and tissue engineering.

Surat

New research examined how a specific type of AI, known as ANFIS, could help predict the yield of several important crops grown in the Nashik region of Maharashtra, India.

Kolkata

Using computer models, the study found that the Lyapunov exponent, a measure of chaos, scales with the Reynolds number in a specific manner, with a precise value.

Guwahati

They used computer simulations to design a microchip with micro-channels and then separate the different cells in the blood into the channels with Dielectrophoresis

New Delhi

The revision is not due to a physical change in India's landmass but rather a result of modern measurement methodologies and technologies.

Mumbai

Researchers look for high-energy light from gravitational-wave candidates in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observation Runs with India’s AstroSat-CZTI

Pune

Today, I complete 15 years as a faculty member at IISER-Pune. I have attempted to put together a list of some lessons (based on my previous writings) that I have learnt so far.

Mumbai

Task-based tests reveal that PCOS impacts women’s focused and divided attention, decreasing speed of response by about 56% and accuracy by about 10%.

Pune

A new publication introduces the rapidly growing field of multi-messenger gravitational lensing, which combines gravitationally lensed signals, like gravitational waves, light or neutrinos to observe events in the universe.

Pune

ICAR Researchers developed a detailed map showing the areas in Pune most affected by abiotic crop stresses, such as extreme temperatures, drought, poor soil quality, and poor or excessive rains.

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