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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…
Champagne for a new supernova
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
Astronomers from the University of Warwick believe that a mystery stellar explosion during 2006 was…
Scientists really rate robot rat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
A team of scientists have developed a robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its w…
Elephants told to buzz off!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
Scientists from Oxford University, in collaboration with the charity Save The Elephants, have used …
Time for a scientific code of ethics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
New meta-survey raises serious concerns about scientific misconduct
Biotech buoyant – but fragile
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2009
Despite worldwide economic turmoil, the global biotechnology industry delivered a solid financial p…
Astronomers comb the stars for planets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009
Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant …
Sandcastle secret used for new materials
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009
The secret of building a perfect sandcastle is in making sure the sand is neither too wet nor too d…
