Latest News

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…