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Fossil find could shed light on Neanderthal – human interbreeding
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2014
A collection of human fossils feared lost has been found and could shed light on whether Neandertha…

Spectral rule to measure stars
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2014
Astronomers have developed a spectral ruler as a means of measuring stars.!--more-- It is the firs…

Antibiotic resistance chosen as greatest scientific problem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jun 2014
The British public have chosen antibiotic resistance as the most pressing scientific problem facing…

Bees under the spotlight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jun 2014
Recent research has uncovered a novel biopesticide which is safe for bees and doesn’t affect their …

Uncovering the root (veg) of good health
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2014
Food scientists, chemists and clinicians will joins forces to investigate the effects of eating car…

Drug compound can reverse cardiomyopathy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2014
A drug compound that could reverse hereditary disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) has been …

Versarien acquire 85% of graphene start-up
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2014
Versatile materials company Versarien has acquired 85% of the shares in the University of Mancheste…

Bones from beer residue
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2014
Waste from beer brewing could be recycled for use in an unexpected application – as a biomaterial f…

Onion-like vesicle for drug delivery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2014
A drug delivery vesicle akin to an onion has been developed by researchers at the University of Pen…

Caging water to study spin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014
A pioneering method of caging and cooling water molecules to study its nuclear spin conversion coul…

Breakthrough against antibiotic resistance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014
A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by a team from the Universi…

US researchers exposed to live anthrax
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
Failure to adhere to proper procedure means as many as 75 scientists in America may have been expos…

Research Councils adopt new reporting platform
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
The seven UK Research Councils have announced they are to begin using a uniform digital platform fo…

Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cance…

Statins of questionable value
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014
Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adul…

Chemical sensor on a chip
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014
Infrared laser beams are ideal for analysing liquids and gases, and scientists in Vienna have minia…

Liquid biopsy to track lung cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014
A liquid biopsy using a patient’s blood sample could offer a new way to track lung cancer say resea…

Origami on the microscopic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014
Dutch researchers have taken the ancient art of origami down to the microscopic level, folding flat…

Travel Fellowships for science communicators
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2014
To mark its 50th anniversary in 2015, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust is to invest £1.2m in Br…

One-size-fits-all synthetic blood
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2014
Donated blood has a short shelf-life – only 35 days for red cells – but now researchers in Essex ho…