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Environmental science looks to genomics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 May 2007
Genomics has received a lot of attention in the past few years, characterisation of whole genomes h…

Is mud the key to a happy life?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2007
Dirt – perhaps not the first thing you might think of as the ideal treatment for depression. Howeve…

Tiny wires power nano revolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2007
A scientist has developed a nanogenerator that can produce a continuous flow of electricity from ul…

European award for UK immunologist
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2007
An academic who developed a treatment for autoimmune disease that has helped millions of patients a…

Earthquakes reveal the planet's temperature
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 May 2007
Scientists have taken the temperature of the Earth’s internal structure finding it to be a white-h…

Clear link for genetic component of obesity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2007
Scientists in the UK have identified the clearest genetic link yet to obesity in the general popula…

Green light for eco-car
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2007
Motor racing, hardly an ecologically sound past time, until now that is. Scientists and engineers h…

Scientists granted £1.2m to develop atom chip
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2007
The promise of quantum computing and ultra-accurate sensors could soon be one step closer with the …

Slime technology moves at a snail's pace
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2007
A gardener’s worst nightmare they might be, but that hasn’t stopped engineers from trying to get to…

Computing in science hits 50
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2007
They represent one of the most important developments for modern science, indeed the modern world, …

Study is breakthrough for dyscalculia sufferers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2007
Scientists think they have found the area of the brain that goes wrong in people with dyscalculia -…

Finding the 'DNA' of the galaxy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2007
An international team of astronomers has used the chemical composition of stars to shed light on th…

Fingerprint science makes its mark
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2007
Finding fingerprints at a crime scene has been a staple of forensic police work for decades, but no…

UK physicist shines on big screen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2007
A physicist has had a key role in bringing a new $45m British-made science fiction film to the big …

Royal Society pushes real climate science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2007
The Royal Society has published a guide to the controversies surrounding climate change in an attem…

New-car smell is safe
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2007
The smell of a new car – the leathery, plastic aroma that greets the drivers of most new cars – is …

Bat's secret to sobriety
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2007
Getting a bit tipsy, staggering about and desperately trying to sober up may be a familiar feeling …

iPods help medics become iDocs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2007
They have become a badge of honour for commuters across the nation, but now one cardiac doctor thin…

Mixed reaction as Brown pledges ?6.3bn to science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2007
The increase in the UK’s public science spending from £5 billion to £6.3 billion, as announced by t…

Mixed reaction as Brown pledges £6.3bn to science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2007
The increase in the UK’s public science spending from £5 billion to £6.3 billion, as announced by t…