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Turning winemakers’ trash into treasure
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2013
Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have realised leftover pulp (called pomace) from crush…
Gravity affects sex in plants
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2013
Changes in gravity affect reproduction in plants, reveals a University of Montreal study. Their fin…
“Spooky action at a distance” on the ISS
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013
The International Space Station (ISS) will reportedly host quantum entanglement experiments that ma…
Turning a mobile into a low-cost microscope
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013
A cheap glass lens, a strip of double sided sticky tape and a simple torch are all you need to turn…
Brain preservation technique could lead to unreliable autopsies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013
For the first time, scientists have conducted neutron scattering experiments on brain tissue. They…
Mummy study reveals ancient ancestors’ clogged arteries
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2013
Ancient hunter-gatherers suffered from clogged arteries too, reveals a study published in The Lance…
Modelling the hearts of the unborn
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2013
An ECG device used in a study aimed at developing the first comprehensive model of the functioning …
Hopping back to the gene pool
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2013
Scientists have revitalised the genome of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning te…
Safer foot-and-mouth vaccine developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2013
Researchers from Diamond Light Source and The Pirbright Institute have developed a safer vaccine fo…
World’s saltiest pond suggests water on Mars
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2013
A team of geologists led by Brown University have discovered the secrets of a pond in Antarctica wi…
Spray-painting solar cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2013
University of Sheffield researchers have made solar cells using a spray painting-like process. The …
Sockeye salmon migrates magnetically
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2013
The sockeye salmon uses a magnetic map to return to its spawning ground after navigating across tho…
Alzheimer’s hope in form of wine and tea
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2013
Substances found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer’s disease pathwa…
Curiosity finds conditions once suited to life on Mars
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
An ancient network of rivers on Mars could once have supported life according to the latest finding…
How a brain cell can change its mind
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Harvard stem cell biologists have turned one type of already differentiated neurons into another wi…
Shedding light on solar flares
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Astrophysicists at the University of Glasgow are investigating auroras to better understand the mec…
Sponge soaks up coal emissions
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Materials Science
A new energy-efficient ‘solar sponge’ developed by researchers at Monash Universit…
New evidence that asteroid caused dinosaur demise
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2013
In an attempt to discover what wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers have now determined the most pr…
Rats ‘touch’ infrared light
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2013
Neuroscience
Laboratory rats were given the ability to “touch” infrared light by Duke University res…
A pleasant aroma relies on good vibrations
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2013
The way molecules vibrate, rather than their shape is responsible for giving substances their chara…
