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New evidence for Big Bang

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2014

Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansio…

Synthetic Dirac monopoles visualised

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2014

Eighty years ago, Paul Dirac discovered a quantum-mechanical structure which allowed the existence …

Wobbly spinning top planet found

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2014

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a wobbly planet akin to a child’s spinning top near the c…

Circadian clock sensitive to vibration

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Mar 2014

The internal circadian clock of the fruit fly can be influenced by more than just the cycle of nigh…

Engraving glass prevents shattering

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2014

Drop a glass on the floor and the likelihood is it will smash; do the same with a seashell and it w…

Prostate cancer drugs ‘not treating root cause’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2014

New drugs aimed at treating prostate cancer may not be targeting the root cause of the disease say …

Cognitive powers unique to humans

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2014

An area of the brain responsible for strategic planning, decision making and multi-tasking is uniqu…

Hairy materials grown on microscale

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2014

Materials constructed of tiny little hairs self-assembled at the microscale could be used in the ne…

Cas9’s secrets revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2014

Bacterial enzyme Cas9 needs short DNA sequences to identify and degrade foreign DNA during viral in…

New oncology deal for Immunocore

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Feb 2014

Biotechnology company Immunocore has entered into an oncology research collaboration and licensing …

Borophene competition to graphene

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2014

Chemists have produced the first experimental evidence of the existence of borophene – a single-ato…

Sudden collapse could await insect networks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2014

Insect pollinators play a crucial role in food security and biodiversity and are already subject to…

On-demand nano-vaccines

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Feb 2014

Vaccines produced on the spot when and where a disease is breaking out might be possible thanks to …

Sodium key to opioid brain signalling

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2014

A high-resolution 3-D view of an opioid receptor’s atomic structure has resolved the 40-year myster…

Love in the air at CERN

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2014

As CERN celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, a pair of Italian physicists whose lives have be…

Gummy material could improve battery safety

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2014

A chewing gum-like material could dramatically improve the safety of lithium ion batteries by repla…

Supervolcanic eruptions solved?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2014

Supervolcanic eruptions are caused by a change in magma pressure and magma buoyancy suggests two ne…

Life Sciences awards open

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2014

Cogent SSC are now accepting nominations for the 2014 UK Life Science Skills Awards, aimed at rewar…

Soap bubbles predict circling winds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2014

Meteorologists have been using an unusual tool to predict the wind intensity and strength of hurric…

Too few unsung heroes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jan 2014

The honeybee is the unsung hero of the countryside, but there are 13.4 million too few colonies to …