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Microbullet hits confirm graphene’s strength

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2014

Scientists at Rice University have developed a technique to fire microbullets at graphene sheets to…

Early detection of liver disease ‘non-existent’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2014

Leading medical experts have warned that early detection of liver disease by GPs in the UK is “virt…

New particles found as CERN make data publicly available

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2014

CERN has announced that the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has found two new pa…

Treating cancer by draining its fuel tank

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2014

Mitochondria fuelled by related proteins are key to promoting the proliferative expansion and survi…

Did gravity save the universe after the Big Bang?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Nov 2014

The universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang and a team of European physicists migh…

UK-built comms technology to fly on ISS

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Nov 2014

The UK subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has won the first phase of a contrac…

New sensor for MRI and fluorescent imaging

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Nov 2014

Nanoparticles capable of simultaneously performing fluorescent and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)…

Divide and conquer protein revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Nov 2014

The structure of a key protein involved in building defensive bacterial cell walls has been reveale…

The answer is in the intergalactic wind

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2014

Astronomers have observed the first direct evidence that an intergalactic “wind” is stripping galax…

Gee-whiz science yields high res climate models

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Nov 2014

A climate scientist has used the powerful supercomputers at Berkeley Laboratory to carry out ‘gee-w…

Mary Rose dog male, not female

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2014

The smallest member of the crew on board the Mary Rose – a dog named Hatch – was a he and not a she…

Philae finds organics on comet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Nov 2014

Philae detected organic molecules on the surface of comet 67P before it went into hibernation scien…

Smart drugs impair the healthy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Nov 2014

Smart drugs won’t make smart people smarter suggests new research from the University of Nottingham…

Longitude Prize open for entries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2014

The Longitude Prize to tackle resistance to antibiotics has opened today, 18 November.!--more-- En…

Controlling genes with your thoughts

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Nov 2014

Scientists have developed a mind-control system that allows a person to switch on genes in mice thr…

Philae to start drilling

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2014

Scientists have started drilling into comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko amid fears that the battery a…

Eyespots deter predatory attack

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2014

Many butterflies use colouration and patterns to avoid attacks from predators, protecting their mos…

We are on the comet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2014

Philae has now stabilised on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after landing  not once; not twice but…

Separating the plant genome

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2014

A new approach to separating plant nuclear DNA from organellar DNA could speed up DNA sequencing an…

Single mutation disrupts morphology of sexual organs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Nov 2014

A single mutation in a gene coding for a protein deeply involved in developmental and homeostatic p…