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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…