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Watching the infectors
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2009
Thanks to research from the University of Bath and the University of Exeter, it is now possible to …

Feel terrific - be low calorific
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2009
Rhesus monkeys now join the list of creatures - from yeast to rats - who live longer and better whe…

Killer cell secret key to immunological puzzle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2009
Scientists say they have solved a great immunological puzzle as they explain how the body’s immune …

Plant love makes for a good defense
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2009
Why do some plants defend themselves from insect attacks better than others? New evidence shows tha…

Genomic approach gives old dog new tricks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2009
As one of best known and extensively studied organisms in the world you might think that there are …

Global warming: Are the models wrong?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Aug 2009
It has become one of the most important questions of modern science – but are we looking in the rig…

Will the UK boldly go?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2009
As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, the Department for Bus…

Cannabis use avoids hard drug addiction in orphans
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2009
New findings hint that the active ingredient of cannabis could have beneficial effects for opiate a…

New centre boosts UK’s genomic capacity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2009
Just as calls come for the UK to be better at handling genomic data - A new national genome centre …

Forensic job losses precursor to sell-off
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2009
Unions think the radical transformation plan for the Forensic Science Service is softening up the o…

Journey to examine swirling plastic vortex
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2009
A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific …

Synchrotron goes all arty
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009
With vast particle accelerators and finely tuned magnetic and electric fields, synchrotrons are nor…

Giant prehistoric bird gets ‘clothed’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009
Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have completed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the …

Want to go green? Then go algal
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009
Students from Cambridge University have won an international award for their design of an “algae ho…

Waggling wings cut emissions by 20 percent
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2009
In a surprise discovery, UK engineers have found that aircraft wings which redirect air to waggle s…

Space weather warning from ‘double pulse’ radar
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jul 2009
University of Leicester researchers have taken a step forward in helping to create a defence for ea…

Galapagos reptiles face mozzy threat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2009
The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife are facing a new threat from disease, as som…

Anti-inbreeding trick found in poppy genome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jul 2009
Scientists have identified an elusive male gene in the field poppy that stops self-fertilization, a…

We all love a good laugh - even the great apes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jul 2009
Human laughter can be traced back 10-16 million years to the last common ancestor of humans and gre…

Selfish gene makes for a nasty virus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2009
Scientists studying why parasites are not more harmful to their hosts have discovered that as the w…