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Voyager to break interstellar space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012
Voyager 1 is about to cross over into interstellar space having travelled almost 18 billion km sinc…
New species of yeast discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012
A new rare and unusual species of yeast has been discovered at three separate locations across the …
Warm currents melt ice shelf underbelly
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2012
The air might not be warm enough to melt snow on top of glaciers, but warm ocean currents are thawi…
Peptide immunotherapy to prevent diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2012
A new therapy for Type 1 diabetes could be in the pipeline thanks to a new project at King’s Colleg…
Cellular basis for age-related breast cancer vulnerability uncovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2012
The risk of breast cancer increases dramatically for women over the age of 50, but why has remained…
DNA fingerprinting with lobSTR
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2012
A novel method for profiling short tandem repeats (STR) in personal genomes has been developed in A…
New nano-factory to boost graphene research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2012
Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material which could replace silicon in microchips thanks to i…
New evidence for shunned Parkinson’s theory
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2012
A once-shunned theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops has received renewed support thanks to re…
IceCube puts cosmic ray theory on ice
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2012
A $272m telescope buried deep beneath the South Pole has failed to find any neutrinos accompanying …
Biological trigger for high blood pressure found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2012
A biological tipping point in the development of high blood pressure may have been discovered by re…
Nature-inspired surface for self-cleaning glass
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2012
A new multifunctional glass that allows water droplets to bounce of its surface like tiny rubber ba…
Exploring the Sun with Dr Lucie Green
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012
Laboratory News packed up their camera and went on the road to visit Dr Lucie Green, a space scient…
First walking tetrapod couldn’t walk after all
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012
An ancient tetrapod thought to be the first ever to walk on land couldn’t actually walk at all sugg…
Safeguarding crucial genetic material
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012
Cells have evolved a risk strategy prioritising which genes to guard most closely to prevent delete…
Evil eyebrows of the cartoon villain
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012
The evil eyebrows and pointy chin so characteristic of a cartoon villain make our ‘threat’ instinct…
Velcro-like cells aid bee grip
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012
Flowers blowing in the wind can be difficult for pollinating insects like bees to handle, but new r…
Key to sperm-to-egg binding found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2012
Key to fertility in mammals is a gene and its encoded protein – protein disulphide isomerase homolo…
New model to predict earthquake behaviour
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2012
Scientists have taken a step towards understanding how earthquakes develop thanks to a new computer…
New technique to predict heart attacks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2012
A new imaging technique combining positron emission tomography (PET) and computerised tomography co…
James Webb Space Telescope delivers first instrument
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2012
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre has taken delivery of the first instrument for the James Webb Sp…
