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Working toward an eco-robot

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2012

Researchers working on an environmentally friendly robot which decomposes at the end of its useful …

Drug combination to treat prostate cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2012

Combining two new prostate cancer drugs could delay drug resistance and increase the number of men …

Special Report: Free access to peer review

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2012

In an article in The Guardian last month, Minister of State for Universities and Science David Will…

No 3D structure for peculiar protein

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2012

An unusual protein which lacks any definable structure – defying the long-held notion that a protei…

Music by natural selection

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012

Music evolves and ‘mates’ via natural selection according to new research from Imperial College Lon…

Voyager to break interstellar space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012

Voyager 1 is about to cross over into interstellar space having travelled almost 18 billion km sinc…

New species of yeast discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012

A new rare and unusual species of yeast has been discovered at three separate locations across the …

Warm currents melt ice shelf underbelly

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2012

The air might not be warm enough to melt snow on top of glaciers, but warm ocean currents are thawi…

Peptide immunotherapy to prevent diabetes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2012

A new therapy for Type 1 diabetes could be in the pipeline thanks to a new project at King’s Colleg…

Cellular basis for age-related breast cancer vulnerability uncovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2012

The risk of breast cancer increases dramatically for women over the age of 50, but why has remained…

DNA fingerprinting with lobSTR

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2012

A novel method for profiling short tandem repeats (STR) in personal genomes has been developed in A…

New nano-factory to boost graphene research

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2012

Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material which could replace silicon in microchips thanks to i…

New evidence for shunned Parkinson’s theory

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2012

A once-shunned theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops has received renewed support thanks to re…

IceCube puts cosmic ray theory on ice

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2012

A $272m telescope buried deep beneath the South Pole has failed to find any neutrinos accompanying …

Biological trigger for high blood pressure found

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2012

A biological tipping point in the development of high blood pressure may have been discovered by re…

Nature-inspired surface for self-cleaning glass

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2012

A new multifunctional glass that allows water droplets to bounce of its surface like tiny rubber ba…

Exploring the Sun with Dr Lucie Green

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012

Laboratory News packed up their camera and went on the road to visit Dr Lucie Green, a space scient…

First walking tetrapod couldn’t walk after all

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012

An ancient tetrapod thought to be the first ever to walk on land couldn’t actually walk at all sugg…

Safeguarding crucial genetic material

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012

Cells have evolved a risk strategy prioritising which genes to guard most closely to prevent delete…

Evil eyebrows of the cartoon villain

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012

The evil eyebrows and pointy chin so characteristic of a cartoon villain make our ‘threat’ instinct…