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Rock detectives turn back time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2008
A new technique using X-rays has enabled scientists to solve a debate about the origins of a three …

Getting to know the genome of your bugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2008
Researchers have set out to understand the genetic component of all those friendly – and not so fri…

Everest study shows neuron loss when climbing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Nov 2008
Researchers have discovered that climbers could suffer a reduction in brain size during high climbs.

Mans best friend helps disease hunt
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Nov 2008
For centuries man has had a uniquely close relationship with dogs. Now, dogs are taking on a new ro…

Textbooks use white men as ‘universal model’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Nov 2008
Images of white men predominate in western anatomy textbooks, which present them as a “universal mo…

Nanotech key in weaning Europe off oil
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Nov 2008
Optimistic views of global solar power are possible say ESF

Of mice and men
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Oct 2008
If you want to know the history of human movement across the planet - have a look at mice DNA. This…

Ground level ozone is not yesterday's problem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Oct 2008
Existing ozone controls are simply not enough – the message from the report by the Royal Society an…

Flexible approach to organic display screens
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Oct 2008
It was two years ago when Sony proudly announced the development of flexible display screens that u…

3-D cell growth attracts funding
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2008
A company hoping to revolutionise the way cells are grown in the laboratory, is preparing for comme…

How Jellyfish revolutionised bioscience
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2008
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2008 went to the researchers that discovered GFP (Green Flourescent P…

Energy storage a boost for renewables
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2008
Engineers and scientists think they have paved the way for the massive installation of renewable en…

BSE test may prevent precautionery slaughter
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2008
Scientists hope a new discovery might lead to a urine-based BSE test that could prevent the precaut…

No such thing as a safe tan
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2008
After an underwhelming summer, you may be entertaining thoughts of topping up your tan on the sun b…

Fast food set to make criminal sweat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2008
The inventor of a new forensic fingerprinting technique claims criminals who eat processed foods ar…

Physicists tune in to big questions
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2008
In a month dominated by Cern and the study of the very small, a group of astronomers from the UK ha…

Memories are made of this
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2008
For the first time scientists have recorded individual brain cells in the act of calling up a memor…

School in store for iPhone style desks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2008
Schools could be set for a Star Trek make-over thanks to the development of the world’s first inter…

Science and art set to combine for arctic trip
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2008
Science and art has come together in an expedition to monitor the sensitive and rapidly changing Ar…

Science divided over Royal Society “creationism” resignation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2008
Director of education steps down after suggesting creationism should be discussed in science lessons