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Unlocking opium

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2010

Genes that allow the opium poppy to make codeine and morphine have been discovered by researchers a…

Accidental discovery in MEMS

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2010

A serendipitous discovery by scientists at MIT could lead to cheaper, more pliable microelectromech…

Seen it through the grapevine

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2010

Electron microscopy has enabled researchers in America to see for the first time how a bacterium th…

A classic case of Brain freeze

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2010

Three-dimensional images of structures involved in communication in the brain have been obtained us…

A night on the town

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2010

Its official – beer is good for you, or so say scientists from the University of California who hav…

Energy from down under

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2010

A few miles below the Earth’s surface, there is a huge, untapped power source which could provide a…

Nanotech looks to the sticky feet of gecko

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2010

Science often tries to mimic what nature has already achieved, and nanotechnology is no exception –…

Junk DNA could help diagnose cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2010

Genetic rogue elements produced by ‘junk DNA’ could help diagnose breast and bowel cancers accordin…

The future of fusion

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Mar 2010

Nuclear fusion could provide a virtually endless supply of energy with no carbon emissions and litt…

Dual system attack against cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Mar 2010

A dual system of nanoparticles injected into the bloodstream can locate and kill cancer tumours in …

Breakthrough in HIV research

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Mar 2010

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in HIV research after finding the answer to a 20 year-old…

H1N1 prevented by natural human protein

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2010

A naturally occurring human protein which could help slow transmission of H1N1, or even prevent inf…

Large Hadron Collider produces results

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2010

After the well documented false start, the Large Hadron Collider at Cern was up-and-running at the …

Tutankhamun's parents identified

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2010

After two years of extensive research using cutting edge techniques, anthropologists have discovere…

Power of the body

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2010

Hybrid cars could be powered by their body parts as scientists have patented a new composite materi…

Element 112 named

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2010

Chemical element 112 has been named Copernicium in honour of the scientist Copernicus, the first as…

Drinking you under the table

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2010

Bats could drink us under the table according to new research from Canada which tested how the crea…

New dinosaur species discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2010

A new species of dinosaurs thought to be related to the Brachiosaurus has been discovered after pal…

Cancer drug target identified

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2010

The molecular structure of a kinase involved in the development of cancer has been identified by sc…

Beating the cystic fibrosis barrier

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2010

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that kills thousands each year because it is difficult to t…