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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…