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Ancient mating song revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2012

The mating song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been bought back to life…

Mathematics of a heart beat

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012

A new mathematical model that looks at the calcium activity within the atrial heart cell could sign…

Get your teeth into it

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012

Milk teeth and permanent adult teeth do not develop in the same way suggests new research which cou…

Redefining the kilogram

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012

British researchers are leading the way when it comes to redefining the kilogram.!--more--

The kilog…

T. rex has most powerful bite

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Feb 2012

An adult Tyrannosaurus rex has the most powerful bite of any terrestrial animal suggests a new comp…

Science not ‘glamorous’ and ‘not for me’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Feb 2012

Fewer than 17% of 10 year olds are interested in pursuing a career in science despite viewing scien…

S-Lab Awards call for entrants

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2012

S-Lab – in conjunction with the National HE STEM program – is looking for entries for the Effective…

Endomannosidase structure revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2012

The structure of an enzyme that hijacks human enzymes to reproduce and cause disease has been deter…

Magnetic breakthrough

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2012

A revolutionary new way of magnetic recording could open the door for faster information processing…

Fool’s gold to improve catalysts

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2012

Fool’s gold may hold the key to better catalytic material

Iron pyrite – or Fool’s gold – could be an…

Smells like young fruit flies

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2012

The younger you smell the more likely it is males will be attracted to you – at least that’s true f…

Students get taste of science and engineering

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2012

Students are getting a taste of science and engineering thanks to the Royal Society who have awarde…

Boost for successful IVF and foetal gender

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2012

By imaging and tracking movements in the egg during fertilisation, Welsh scientists can identify em…

It’s all about the soil temperature

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2012

By changing their sensitivity to plant hormones, dormant seeds detect and respond to changes in soi…

Down to the wire

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2012

A silicon wire just four atoms wide and one atom thick containing a string of phosphorus atoms has …

How do we recognise a face?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2012

The left side of the brain is analytical, and the right side is creative so goes the adage – but wh…

Tracking enhancers during development

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2012

Genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls switching genes on and off and scient…

AstraZeneca restructure to affect 7,300 jobs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012

Following the publication of their full year 2011 results, AstraZeneca have announced a restructuri…

Starbursts and galaxies

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012

Astronomers have found a link between starbursts in the early Universe and the most massive galaxie…

Magnetic soap created

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012

A soap that can be controlled by magnets has been created by scientists at the University of Bristo…