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Unique organ gives koalas low-pitched call
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013
Koalas have an unusual mating call; its pitch is about 20 times lower than it should be for an anim…
Award for talented eight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2013
Eight recent graduates are set to follow in the footsteps of luminaries such as Professor Peter Hig…
Network nanotrain arrives on time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2013
Powered by nanoscale motors and controlled by DNA – the latest tiny self-assembling transport netwo…
Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013
Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by co…
Nanoparticles by design
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013
Researchers in Japan say they have succeeded in designing and creating multicomponent nanoparticles…
Why the kettle whistles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2013
For more than 100 years, scientists have been puzzled as to why a kettle on the stove whistles – wh…
Nanoparticles deliver punch to breast cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2013
Triple negative breast cancer – an aggressive form of the disease – is very difficult to treat; res…
The planet that ‘shouldn’t exist’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2013
Astronomers have weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star and concluded that it shouldn’…
Acid rain plays role in Great Dying
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…
Unexpected boron coupling reaction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2013
Two positively charged compounds of boron have been joined to form a chain of four boron atoms in a…
New mammalian cell culture facility
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Nov 2013
A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by…
Sticky sperm
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2013
Sticky sperm could hold the key to greater success for those undergoing IVF treatment say researche…
Award for Immunocore
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2013
Oxford-based Immunocore has won the Best Biotech Dealmaker Award of 2013 at the OBN (Oxfordshire Bi…
Fluid frenzy at MIT
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Nov 2013
In separate studies, two groups of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been…
Sea louse with second body clock
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Nov 2013
The tiny speckled sea louse boasts not one but two body clocks – one for night and day, and one fo…
Science Nobels awarded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…
New technique to image cell interior
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2013
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see ti…
Ultra-compact dwarf galaxy discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2013
An ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a density of stars 15,000 times greater than the Milky Way has b…
Interview with Stephanie Preston, scientific glassblower
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Oct 2013
Laboratory News visits Big Ask participant Stephanie Preston about the seemingly dwindling art-form…
Plant scientists pick wrong model
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Oct 2013
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists be…
