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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…
Ultra-compact dwarf galaxy discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2013
An ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a density of stars 15,000 times greater than the Milky Way has b…
Interview with Stephanie Preston, scientific glassblower
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Oct 2013
Laboratory News visits Big Ask participant Stephanie Preston about the seemingly dwindling art-form…
Plant scientists pick wrong model
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Oct 2013
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists be…
New model to guide self-assembly
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Oct 2013
A new model which allows better control of self-assembly – the process through which molecules aggr…
Breaking the blood-brain barrier
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Oct 2013
Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs…
Sorting the good from the bad bacteria
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2013
There are good bacteria and bad bacteria – some coexisting in the same species – and researchers at…
‘Writing’ artificial membranes on graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2013
Graphene has emerged as a versatile new surface on which to assemble model cell membranes mimicking…
Ribosome-building dance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2013
An important step in building ribosomes is like a strictly choreographed dance say scientists from …
