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Ginger attracts stag beetle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2011
Ginger traps and miniature microphones are key to conserving the UK’s largest terrestrial beetle – …
Watery success for Acoustic cloak
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2011
Now you hear it, now you don’t – scientists have discovered how to hide underwater objects from son…
‘School science prescriptive’ says report
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2011
Students in a third of secondary schools are given a limited opportunity to design and carry out sc…
Yeast offers clue to Huntington’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2011
Scientists have uncovered a process thought to be implicated in Huntington’s disease using simple b…
Shoestring-budget experiment records curvature of Earth
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2011
A homemade experiment made on a shoestring budget has recorded a video of the Earth from the outer …
Bigger brained birds took to skies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2011
What can the flocculus tell scientists about flight, and did the dodo become flightless because its…
Coffee protects against diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011
Your early morning coffee might be doing more than just waking you up say American researchers who …
Mystery of Arctic mercury solved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011
The concentration of toxic mercury in humans and animals living in the polar regions is on the incr…
Smartphone set for blast off
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011
The humble mobile phone has come a long way in the last 25 years and scientists hope to use the lat…
Herpes hitches a ride on cellular protein
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2011
The herpes virus protein piggybacks the human cellular machinery, hijacking human cells and spreadi…
Pfizer to close Sandwich plant
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2011
Pharmaceuticals company Pfizer are to close their research and development facility in Sandwich, Ke…
Charitable funding for cystinosis research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Jan 2011
A chemically modified version of drug used to treat cystinosis could spell the end of its unpleasan…
One-stop-shop for cancer research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jan 2011
A one-stop-shop cancer drug discovery database has been launched by scientists who hope it will spe…
Keeping blood sugar under control
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2011
A new mechanism for controlling blood sugar levels following a meal has been discovered by scientis…
Couch potato sheds light on exercise and diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Mice lacking in a protein coactivator maintain normal activity and body weight, but can’t seem to m…
Banded penguins suffer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Trying to tell one penguin apart from another can be quite difficult – the tuxedoed birds tend to l…
Fatal childhood disease treated with soya
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2011
Soya beans could hold the key to treating a fatal childhood disease say researchers in Manchester, …
Science talent worries over immigration cap
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
The Government is proposing to cap the number of non-EU economic migrants entering the UK at 21,700…
GM against bird flu
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
Genetically modified chickens with a decoy molecule could prevent the spread of avian flu to other …
Clever plastics indicate off food
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
Packaging that changes colour to alert consumers when food is starting to go off is being developed…
