The Right Way to Stop Kitchen AntsCommon kitchen invaders, ants, leave chemical trails to guide their colonies. While popular home remedies like cucumber peels fail to deter...
How the Pros Get Rid of Ants IndoorsProfessional ant control focuses on understanding colony behavior, not just surface-level extermination. Experts utilize scientifically pro...
This Animal Follows Scents into Dead-End Circles Until It Dies: Here's WhyArmy ants can form a "death spiral" or ant mill, a phenomenon where they follow each other in a continuous circle for hours or days until e...
How Ant Colonies Work Without a Boss: Nature’s Secret TeamworkTiny ants create amazing organizations without a leader. They use chemical trails and internal clocks to work together. This flexible syste...
No Leaders, No Plan! So Why Do Animal Swarms Look Smarter Than Us?Animals in forests, oceans, and underground exhibit surprising coordination without a leader, challenging traditional definitions of intell...
Ant Trails Look Random, Until You See What They’re Really BuildingAnts create intricate trail systems from their nests to food sources. New research reveals this organized movement is not random. Ants use ...
Your sense of smell holds clues to your overall healthSince ancient Greek times, we've known that we smell differently when we are unwell. While we rely on blood analysis today, ancient Greek p...
Natco Pharma forays into pheromone-based technology for integrated pest management"During Kharif 2021, NATCO plans to launch its first green label pheromone product for effective management of Pink Bollworm (PBW) in cotto...
India all set for the biotech bounce among its startupsA new set of deep science startups is delving into subjects as diverse as medicine, energy and agri to lay the foundation for a large biote...
Male spiders gift food in silk to mates- Plants, animals in northeast use chemicals to communicate
Kolkata, Dec 19 (IANS) In a unique scientific exercise centred on northeast India, researchers have kicked-off investigations into how anim...
New way to trap, kill mosquito eggs may help fight ZikaThe study conducted in Guatemala, documented a cheap, easy system to reduce virus-carrying Aedes genus mosquitoes by capturing and destroyi...
- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology to set up science park
To promote science among school and college students, city-based CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), has planned for setti...
Moth's mating behaviour can help build better dronesImitating moth mating behaviour can help researchers develop airborne robots or drones that ply the sky searching for signature odours from...
Coffee Board finds a way to tackle arabica stem borerManagement of this devastating pest has been increasingly difficult due to the vagaries of Nature and shortage of skilled work force.
Hot startup: Barrix Agro Sciences helps farmers cut costs by replacing pesticidesPheromones developed by Barrix are smelling agents that attract pests. Instead of eating crops, pests are attracted to pheromones in the tr...
Soon, smell tracking robots to help in environmental spills, leaksEmulating the scent-tracking behaviour of a silkmoth could help scientists develop robots that are able to sense environmental spills and l...