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Resurrecting the mighty
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
In an attempt to figure out why the mammoth became extinct over 10,000 years ago, an international …
Buckyball leads to 3D breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2011
A ‘guest’ molecule has led to a major breakthrough in nanotechnology by allowing scientists to buil…
Rhea’s Atmosphere holds surprise oxygen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2011
A fragile atmosphere of carbon dioxide and oxygen has been discovered around Rhea, Saturn’s second-…
Monopoles and magnetricity - the story of spin ice
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2011
A major breakthrough has been made in understanding magnetic monopoles and magnetricity as scientis…
Leaky blood vessel drug treats Alzheimer’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2011
Drugs currently used to treat leaky blood vessels could treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease say r…
Innocent bystander is not so innocent
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2011
The long-standing mystery of how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T cells and causes AIDS has been sol…
Sloppy maths surprisingly useful
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
If your head is still a little fuzzy after the New Year and you can’t keep up with the calculations…
Scientists honoured in New Year list
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
The New Year’s Honours Lists was announced at the end of 2010, and science featured prominently wit…
What’s yours?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
It might be a New Year, but the resolutions are the same – and our brain hampers our efforts to sti…
Bettering Haber-Bosch
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2011
Cambridge researchers think they’ve figured out a way to improve the efficiency of ammonia synthesi…
New component to gravity explains anomaly
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2011
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can be reconciled with a new force which explains the rotation of s…
Antibiotics boost
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2011
A company developing novel DNA-based antibiotic technology against drug-resistant infections has re…
New home for cell research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
Scientists investigating the building blocks of life are being built a new home at the University o…
Is Santa toxic?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
How does Santa survive in the North Pole? Not only is it freezing cold, but everything he eats is l…
Saving the Christmas tree
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
Your living room floor is awash with needles from the Christmas tree because the plant hormone ethy…
Tropical mistletoe discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
A new parasitic tropical mistletoe has been described just in time for Christmas. The mistletoe – d…
Variant for reduced hypertension discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2010
A genetic variation that is associated with reduced hypertension and a 7.7% reduction in cardiovasc…
Perforin packs a punch
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2010
The human immune system’s assassin – the protein perforin – has been seen in action for the first t…
Where are the women?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2010
There’s a real lack of women representing science – most young adults can’t name a female scientist…
Urine test for CAD
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2010
A simple urine test that looks for particular protein expressions can detect coronary artery diseas…
