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Sahana Sitaraman

Neuroscience, Behavior

National Centre for Biological Sciences, India

A close up of a longhorn beetle's face

A close up of a longhorn beetle's face

Rare orchid lures in beetle pollinators using deceitful sexual bait

Longhorn beetles deposit sperm in orchids they pollinate, but why?

Sahana Sitaraman
5/2/2021, 11:31 AM
  • evolution
  • plants
  • pollination
  • sexual selection
  • insects
blue cell that has enveloped a tan cell

Carolina Coelho on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Special white blood cells heal our wounds with jolt of energy

These cells, called macrophages, can both cause and alleviate pain

Sahana Sitaraman
7/6/2020, 12:24 PM
  • pain
  • pain management
  • immune system
  • macrophages
  • opioid
a bear popping its head up in a snowy landscape

Photo by Chris Geirman on Unsplash 

Cold-sensing neurons help tell animals when to hibernate

This brings new insight into how mammals and birds survive frigid winters

Sahana Sitaraman
6/22/2020, 1:52 PM
  • hibernation
  • winter
  • bears
  • birds
  • bats
Bee

Bee

USGS

On this World Bee Day, we ask: why are bees so fascinating?

Is it their honey or their hive, or is it because they can jive?

Sahana Sitaraman
5/20/2020, 2:29 PM
  • save the bees
  • world bee day
  • animal appreciation
  • animals
  • biology
Zebrafish

Photo by Lynn Ketchum, courtesy of Oregon State University via Flickr

Yeah, one fish, two fish, but can fish actually count?

Studying zebrafish could help us unravel the neural circuitry underlying numerical skills

Sahana Sitaraman
2/4/2020, 5:24 PM
  • zebrafish
  • counting
  • cognition
  • animal behavior
  • numerosity