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Water ice discovered on Mercury

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2012

Water ice has been discovered on Mercury, despite it being the nearest planet to the Sun, often rea…

Interview with CERN Director General Professor Rolf Heuer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2012

We caught up with CERN Director General Professor Rolf Heuer at the STEMNET Awards at the House of …

Scientists welcome rejection of British Antarctic Survey merger

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2012

The Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to me…

Moon born in violent collision

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012

Planetary scientists have discovered evidence that the Moon was created when a body the size of Mar…

Insects shape genetic landscapes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Nov 2012

Plant-eating insects’ preferences play a fundamental role in maintaining and shaping the genetic va…

New approach for invisibility

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2012

A team at MIT has developed a new approach for allowing objects to become “invisible.” The new conc…

UK Flusurvey goes viral

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2012

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are appealing for people to sig…

Creating nanoscale rainbows

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2012

King’s College London scientists have discovered how to separate colours – “creating rainbows” usin…

STEMNET awards for inspiring the next generation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2012

Laboratory News was invited to attend the National STEMNET Awards ceremony at the House of Lords on…

First ever images of Landau levels

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Nov 2012

Landau Levels – the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field – h…

Surprise black hole duo discovery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Nov 2012

An international team of astronomers have made an unexpected discovery about globular star clusters…

See-through soil developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Nov 2012

Researchers from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee have developed a t…

Lithium redox imaging for a better battery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2012

A technique developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology allows, for the first time, the dire…

Mollusc missing link discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2012

A rare fossil called Kulindroplax, the missing link between two mollusc groups, has been discovered…

Nanoparticles combat ageing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2012

Spanish scientists have developed a nanodevice that may have applications in the future development…

Meteorite reveals Martian secrets

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Nov 2012

A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more clues about Mars, it…

Memories of a sleeping brain

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Nov 2012

Researchers have discovered that a region of the brain – involved in learning, memory and Alzheimer…

Interview with Heather Williams, ScienceGrrl director

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2012

Laboratory News speak to this month's Big Ask: medical physicist, Dr Heather Williams, about why in…

The sentinel sea cow

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Oct 2012

Manatees may reflect the quality of health in marine ecosystems according to a long-term, collabora…

‘Barcode’ blood test for prostate cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2012

A blood test that reads genetic changes like a barcode, and can detect aggressive prostate cancer h…