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“Wandering meatloaf” snail’s teeth may improve solar cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2013

Materials Science

The teeth of a marine snail can be used to create less expensive, more efficient n…

Water’s pyramid shape confirmed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have confirmed the original model of the m…

Ovary development theory overturned

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013

The theory of ovary development has been overturned by new research from the University of Adelaide…

X-rays shine light on Picasso’s paint choice

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013

High-energy X-rays have helped to resolve a decades-long debate among art historians about the kind…

A gullet-scanner the size of a pill

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2013

Medical Imaging

Researchers have developed an imaging system enclosed in a capsule about the size of…

The surprising way a tadpole regrows its tail

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2013

Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered, to their surprise, that a tadpole’s abi…

Shimadzu UK grows sales orders by 30%

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2013

Despite challenging economic conditions and in the face of fierce competition, Shimadzu UK has achi…

Light exposure vital for developing eye

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2013

Developmental Biology

Research published in Nature concludes that light exposure during pregnancy is…

The lightweight material 15 times stronger than steel

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2013

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed the strongest, lightest weight silica na…

Life science boosted with venture capital fund

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2013

Rock Spring Ventures will launch a £50 million venture capital fund to invest in life science compa…

One in six stars has Earth-sized planet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2013

A new analysis of Kepler spacecraft data has revealed that about 17% of stars have an Earth-sized p…

New state of matter produced by LHC

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2013

Collisions between protons and lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have produced a new…

Galaxy cluster ‘dark core’ not so dark after all

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jan 2013

When NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed an overabundance of dark matter in the core of the merg…

Chemistry resolves carbon nanotube safety fears

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2013

Safety fears about carbon nanotubes - due to their similarity to asbestos - have been resolved foll…

Protein SP2 crucial to neuron creation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2013

A cell cycle regulator protein called Sp2 may be the key to the proper creation of neurons from ste…

Grand Canyon as old as the dinosaurs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2013

One of the Seven Wonders of the World is older and with a more interesting history than was previou…

X-ray laser to slay sleeping sickness parasite

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2013

The world’s most powerful X-ray laser has revealed the three-dimensional structure of an important …

Dance of quantum twisters

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2013

A quantum fluid trapped on top of a semiconductor chip can be used to measure movements remarkably …

NASA happens upon forecast breakthrough

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2013

A researcher who set out to develop a formula to protect Apollo sites on the moon from rocket exhau…

Ultra-hot test rig for Space-Age ceramics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2013

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed the first testing facility that enables CT-scanning of c…