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Chemistry Nobel Prize goes to surface chemist

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2007

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to German Gerhard Ertl for groundbreaking surface chemistry w…

L.A.B. 2009 to be more British

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2007

For those of you that missed the delights of the L.A.B. show - held at Excel, London, at the beginn…

Physics Nobel goes to hard drive poineers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2007

This year’s physics Nobel Prize is awarded for the technology that is used to read data on hard dis…

Nobel goes to knock out kings

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2007

Two US scientists and their UK collaborator have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for thei…

Lord Winston speaks out against 'blinkered' regulations

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2007

Lord Robert Winston has accused “blinkered” regulations of holding up his research aimed at creatin…

New gum avoids sticky situations

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2007

Scientists are hoping that stepping in gum won’t be such a sticky situation anymore - as they have …

Beetles toxic steam inspires researchers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Oct 2007

Researchers are using an insect that sprays its predators with toxic steam to inspire new types of …

War tragedy highlights ignored scientists

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Oct 2007

A law of physics named after him, correct predictions of several unknown elements, and the first ex…

Ozone - the fallen super-hero?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Oct 2007

Ever thought of ozone of a super-hero that could turn bad at any moment? Well one scientist thinks …

Icebergs revealed as biological hotbed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2007

Rather than free-floating frozen voids of life, icebergs are now thought to be biological hot spots…

Green chemistry gives 'benign by design' coatings

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2007

Green chemistry is being employed to develop revolutionary drug delivery methods that are more effe…

Could E.T. be a particle of interstellar dust

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Sep 2007

Science has long since developed beyond the view that extra terrestrial life takes the form of litt…

Coffee gives up its bitter secret

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Sep 2007

It may be vital for that early morning pick-up, but scientists now think that caffeine is not respo…

Award for ethical science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2007

Researchers using brain scanners to develop methods of replacing invasive experiments on laboratory…

Sugar intake key to obesity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2007

It may not sound like a discovery to stop the presses, but scientists say the finding that eating m…

Genes control lonely hearts

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2007

Many people have felt the odd pang of loneliness – but now scientists think it could be all down to…

Drug detection is on the money

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2007

A research team claims they have made life for drug dealers harder by examining the amount of drug …

It only takes one

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2007

The term “biological invasion” conjures images of plagues of locusts destroying all in their path -…

Was Newton beaten by 250 years?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2007

The history books may need to be re-written according to a new finding which suggests Newton was no…

A fishy treatment for malaria

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2007

Pesticide resistance is an increasing problem for malarial control methods but new research has pro…