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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