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UK team develop swarming robots
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2008
A new project is to investigate how swarms of miniature robots can work and evolve together.

Safe guarding Earth's data
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2008
The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate but…

Is a cup of tea the answer to everything - even anthrax?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Apr 2008
A new study by an international team of researchers has revealed how the humble cup of tea could we…

Astro-amino acids suggest life fell from the stars
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2008
The theory of panspermia - that life on planets like Earth and Mars was seeded from space - has rec…

A bridge too far
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2008
Small sample size is a problem often encountered in laboratory life, but scientists at the National…

Caffeine helps brain fight cholesterol
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2008
Scientists have given those that like a morning doughnut every now and then a top tip for counterin…

Planet hunters score a perfect 10
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2008
The discovery of 10 new planets has been announced at the Royal Astronomical Society’s largest ever…

Sharks shop for food just like us
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2008
Sharks and other marine animals find food using a similar search pattern to the way people may shop…

Penicillin back in bug war
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Apr 2008
Research has uncovered how Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicill…

Budget sells short green issues
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2008
The environmentally focused budget predicted by many did not materialise and although the chancello…

Foot-and-mouth lab 'ineffective' says review
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2008
It was “creeping degradation of standards” at the Institute for Animal Health’s Pirbright laborator…

Mobile camera developers snap up commercial prize
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Mar 2008
Four researchers from the University of Edinburgh, who all played a key role in the development of …

UK company aids fire service with positioning system
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2008
The Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service has joined forces with the Research and Technology lab of Tha…

Researchers target rusty worms
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2008
Researchers have found that the way we transport iron through our blood stream can malfunction and …

New light source given go ahead
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2008
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) have given the go ahead for a project to devel…

New research reveals our flock mentality
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2008
Have you ever arrived somewhere and wondered how you got there? Scientists at the University of Lee…

Microbes hold key to climate change
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2008
We might think we control the climate but unless we harness the powers of our microbial co-habitant…

Listen up - our hearing is perfect for a cocktail party
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2008
Ever managed to isolate what a particular person is saying while simultaneously ignoring what anoth…

ET targeted for a spot of consumerism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2008
First came unmanned probes then a dog, and then the space race’s crowning achievement – man. Now - …

World's strongest creature harbours colour change secret
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2008
Not only is the aptly named Hercules Beetle the strongest creature in the world, capable of lifting…