The study from IISc found a previously unidentified yeast-like symbiont inside the lac insect Kerria lacca, which gives the insect its distinctive red colour and, may also provide other nutrients in return for shelter.

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Bengaluru

The study from IISc found a previously unidentified yeast-like symbiont inside the lac insect Kerria lacca, which gives the insect its distinctive red colour and, may also provide other nutrients in return for shelter.

Bengaluru

The study sheds light on a crucial protein, PfPPM2, which controls asexual division and switching between the sexual forms in Malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite, both of which are key to disease transmission.

Pune

The team observed two merging galaxies and discovered that the energy from a quasar is actively transforming the gas within its companion galaxy, thereby dictating whether new stars can form.

Bengaluru

Researchers at IISc conducted a case study of the Koramangala Challaghatta (K&C) Valley project in Karnataka to show how mixing in traditional practices can improve water conservation.

Ahmedabad

The new method offers a straightforward approach to imprint the geometric phase from a classical laser beam and transfer it directly onto a pair of entangled photons.

Goa

A new study has confirmed that embayed beaches are experiencing critical shoreline retreats, and beaches that have seen significant human-built structures and tourism development have shown more severe erosion.

Bhubaneswar

Researchers used a variety of data collected between 2001 and 2015 to study the effect of Land Use Land Cover (LULC) on Surface Air Temperatures in India.

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

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