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Doing the walk of life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jul 2014
For 50 million years, animals have used the same food foraging techniques suggests research from th…
Hope for sufferers of rare childhood disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jul 2014
Scientists as Newcastle University have taken the first step toward treating the rare childhood dis…
Svalbard reindeer numbers on the rise
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jul 2014
In an unexpected twist, climate change is having a positive effect on the Norwegian reindeers of Sv…
Snapshot of photosynthesis reveals process
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jul 2014
Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation have enabled researchers to understand how …
Glacial microbes affect albedo
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2014
Microbes drastically reduce the surface reflectivity of glaciers and have a non-negligible impact o…
Polymorphism increases risk of stroke and heart attack
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2014
A genetic variant found in platelets is associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart attac…
DNA replication fork visualised
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2014
An American team have built the first model to decipher what goes on at the ‘replication fork’ duri…
New finding challenges belief birds evolved from dinosaurs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2014
A sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from groun…
Protein pocket could lead to new treatment for Fragile X
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2014
A pocket found in the structure of a protein linked to genetic disorder Fragile X Syndrome could he…
Willetts leaves post in cabinet reshuffle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2014
David Willetts will no longer hold his post as Minister of State for Universities and Science in Da…
Injected polio vaccine to boost immunity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2014
A type of polio vaccine that fell out of favour in the 1960s could hasten the eradication of the di…
The shrinking human genome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014
Our understanding of the human genome has been reduced to 19,000 genes, almost all of which have an…
Cloud formation slowed by biodiesel emission
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014
Global cloud formation and rainfall could be more dramatically and unexpectedly affected by the inc…
Animal experiments rise to 4.12m
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2014
The number of animal experiments carried out in the UK has risen, despite a Government pledge to re…
Fish-like animal emits bright and dim light
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jul 2014
A fish-like animal found in coastal waters can emit both bright and dim versions of fluorescent lig…
Global warming favours light-coloured insects
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jul 2014
A warming European climate has led to lighter coloured butterflies and dragonflies out-competing th…
Titan’s ocean as salty as Dead Sea
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2014
NASA scientists have firm evidence that the ocean inside Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, might be as …
Brain activity during magic mushrooms trip mirrors dreaming
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2014
The brain displays a similar pattern of activity during a mind-expanding drug trip as it does durin…
Bio-printing transplantable tissues a step closer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2014
A bio-printed artificial vascular network capable of mimicking the body’s circulatory system could …
Diabetes medication ‘doing more harm than good’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2014
Diabetes treatments could be doing more harm than good; particularly for the over 75s suggests new …
