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Human love of novelty drove animal colour

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2009

Humans have actively changed the coats of domestic animals by cherry-picking rare genetic mutations…

The age of personal electricity monitors

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jan 2009

Intelligent sustainable energy - a spin-out from Oxford University, has been set up with funding fr…

Government funding for foot and mouth detection

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2009

Southampton University spin-out Stratophase is to take the lead in a consortium formed to develop a…

A giant leap for geology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

Physicists have cracked the mystery behind the strange and uncannily well-ordered hexagonal columns…

Xtreme scientists conquer Everest to find lowest blood oxygen levels

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

A team of mountaineering doctors from UCL have reported the lowest human blood oxygen levels ever r…

A map like no other

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

Astronomers from UK universities are to take on the mammoth challenge of mapping the distribution o…

Cheating ants ousted by chemistry

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

The want to reproduce is the most natural instinct in the animal world except - it would seem - for…

Alzheimer’s research suggests recovery possible

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2009

Researchers have discovered that the brain\'s circuitry survives longer than previously thought in …

Mystery of Mars is a washout

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2009

Scientists have proposed that some of the least understood features on Mars were formed when large …

Bug suicide could reveal new antibiotic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2009

Scientists have come to understand the mysterious behaviour of kamikaze bacteria, and they say it c…

Iron-age sacrifice is oldest brain in Britain

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2009

The oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age, has b…

‘Flexible’ gibbon feet model for early humans

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2009

Scientists have found that early humans could have walked successfully on a flexible flat foot, sim…

Predicting the onset of depression

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2009

Researchers from UCL have developed the first online tool that can be used to identify those who ar…

New ebola species threatens Africa

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2009

Following an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in Uganda, scientists have isolated a new species of eb…

Will robots increase the class divide?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2009

A Spanish study has looked at the future impact of robots on society and concludes that a technolog…

Euro threat to MRI scanners

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2009

Urgent action and public pressure is still required to stop the European Union adopting legislation…

The new wave

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2009

2000 PhD students to take on big problems with £250million new funding

A real blow for the sneezes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2008

For those sufferers of allergic rhinitis – scientists at Oxford University have some good Christmas…

'Tis the season to be contrary

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2008

In the build up to Christmas tempers may well be frayed – but fear not, endocrinology may hold the …

...FIVE gold rings

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2008

As Christmas and the credit crunch collide, is it the men that are feeling the pinch the most? We m…