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Nanoparticles and the environment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Dec 2013
Metallic nanoparticles have many possible uses – including clean fuel technology and high density s…

Lion’s Lair winners
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Dec 2013
Cleaver Scientific scooped first prize in the Lion’s Lair at LABINNOVATIONS for its ‘Safe’ Series, …

‘Swiss army knife’ secret of RNA polymerase I
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013
The 3-dimensional structure of a molecular machine scientists have likened to the Swiss army knife …

Unique organ gives koalas low-pitched call
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013
Koalas have an unusual mating call; its pitch is about 20 times lower than it should be for an anim…

Award for talented eight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2013
Eight recent graduates are set to follow in the footsteps of luminaries such as Professor Peter Hig…

Network nanotrain arrives on time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2013
Powered by nanoscale motors and controlled by DNA – the latest tiny self-assembling transport netwo…

Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013
Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by co…

Nanoparticles by design
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013
Researchers in Japan say they have succeeded in designing and creating multicomponent nanoparticles…

Why the kettle whistles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2013
For more than 100 years, scientists have been puzzled as to why a kettle on the stove whistles – wh…

Nanoparticles deliver punch to breast cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2013
Triple negative breast cancer – an aggressive form of the disease – is very difficult to treat; res…

The planet that ‘shouldn’t exist’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2013
Astronomers have weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star and concluded that it shouldn’…

Acid rain plays role in Great Dying
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…

Unexpected boron coupling reaction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2013
Two positively charged compounds of boron have been joined to form a chain of four boron atoms in a…

New mammalian cell culture facility
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Nov 2013
A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by…

Sticky sperm
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2013
Sticky sperm could hold the key to greater success for those undergoing IVF treatment say researche…

Award for Immunocore
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2013
Oxford-based Immunocore has won the Best Biotech Dealmaker Award of 2013 at the OBN (Oxfordshire Bi…

Fluid frenzy at MIT
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Nov 2013
In separate studies, two groups of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been…

Sea louse with second body clock
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Nov 2013
The tiny speckled sea louse boasts not one but two body clocks – one for night and day, and one fo…

Science Nobels awarded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…

New technique to image cell interior
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2013
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see ti…