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Next-gen sequencing finds ‘genes of luxury’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2009
For the first time, researchers are able to look at the need for every gene in a bacterial cell in …
Scientists wanted for Martian odyssey
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2009
Calling all biologists, medics, engineers and computer scientists – the European Space Agency has a…
No increase for European R&D funding
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2009
R&D funding in Europe was unchanged from 2006 to 2007, sticking at 1.85% of gross domestic product …
Electricity flows for new spin-out
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Oct 2009
A new Oxford University spin-out company - Oxford Yasa Motors - has been set up to commercialise li…
Can an equation determine potential habitats?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Oct 2009
Researchers are laying the groundwork for a new equation that could mathematically quantify a habit…
Algae nanostructure makes ideal battery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2009
A group of researchers have discovered that the perfect environmentally friendly battery could be i…
Real research for kids’ education centre
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2009
The first children’s science education centre based within a working medical research laboratory ha…
XBox does science as well as games
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2009
It has become a gamer’s best friend and given Microsoft hordes of young fans – but now one research…
A simple pollution solution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2009
Researchers from the University of Leeds have found that pedestrians can significantly reduce their…
Plants set ablaze to improve risk maps
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2009
A team of researchers have been setting alight plant life to test a new method that measures how di…
Researchers begin to crack magnetic mystery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2009
A seven decade magnetic mystery involving space hunts and quantum probes could have ended thanks to…
Pokemon and 2012 Olympics set off epilepsy trail
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2009
What did an episode of the Pokemon cartoon in 1997 and the promotion of the 2012 London Olympics ha…
Honeybee queens too conservative in the bedroom
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2009
The answer to the decline in honeybee numbers could lay in the bedroom habits of the queen say Univ…
Eureka moment offers neuron breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2009
Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists finally have an idea of the function of …
Is it time to change how we think of fossil fuels?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2009
Battling with scientific consensus, one scientist says we have got it wrong when to comes to oil an…
Hey scientist – just how do you think?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2009
Dr Nancy J Nersessian has studied the cognitive processes that underlie scientific creativity by ob…
Notation for biologists
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2009
The first standard graphical notation for biology has recently been launched by the European Molecu…
Scientists turn off ‘obesity gene’ in mice
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2009
Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a gene that appears to control obesity in…
Nanotube separation wins BNC new contract
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Sep 2009
Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) has signed its largest contract to date with an unnamed chemical company.
Space technology transfer handled by SFTC
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2009
STFC Innovations - the technology transfer office of the Science & Technology Facilities Council - …
