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Brain’s inner GPS wins Nobel Prize

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

The inner GPS of the brain, which makes it possible for us to orient ourselves in space has won Joh…

IL-25 target for asthma attacks caused by colds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

A small molecule called interleukin-25 might play a central role in asthma attacks brought on by th…

£125m to train next generation of bioscientists

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Funding of £125m over the next five years is being made available to support the training and devel…

Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT h…

Star-shaped molecule created after 25 year effort

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2014

A complex star-shaped molecule of interlocking rings has been created at the University of Manchest…

Dry roasting a trigger for peanut allergy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2014

There is a striking difference between the prevalence of peanut allergies in the Western world and …

Superheavy element pairing probes Einstein’s relativity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Sep 2014

Chemists probing the predictive power of trends in the Periodic Table have successfully established…

Happy Birthday CERN!

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the Europ…

Jamming bacterial ‘shredder’ could fight infection

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

By jamming their ‘paper shredder’, scientists might be able to drown deadly bacteria in their own p…

Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to preve…

New microscopy technique images living single cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Sep 2014

A new microscopy technology has allowed scientists to paint a target in a living subject and watch …

Plumage no sacrifice for peacocks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Sep 2014

Peacocks are known for their long iridescent feathers which they use to attract a mate, but their d…

Meteorite points to life on Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2014

A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant m…

AMS show modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Sep 2014

Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been reve…

Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2014

Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint sig…

Cheetah-bot’s successful test run

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2014

Cheetahs are the fasted land mammal on Earth, capable of going zero to 60 miles per hour in a matte…

Extremophile key to nuclear waste disposal

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2014

A subterranean bacterium could solve the problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste say researchers…

Splitting water based on nuclear spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2014

Separation of water based on the nuclear spin of individual molecules has been made possible thanks…

Freshwater springs likely played role in early human evolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Sep 2014

The ability to move and seek out new sources of groundwater in dry periods may have been pivotal to…

New threat to ozone layer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2014

The Antarctic ozone hole is beginning to show signs of recovery, but a new threat is lurking sugges…