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An embarrasment of riches for relativity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2012

Einstein’s view of the Universe has gained yet more evidence as cosmologists better understand the …

Revealing volcanic plumbing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 May 2012

Understanding the plumbing systems that lie under volcanoes could help scientists predict large sca…

Hookworms to treat MS

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2012

Parasitic worms could offer a new treatment for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) say researchers…

Dione has oxygen exosphere

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012

Saturn’s moon Dione has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen suggests new findings f…

Glowing fish offer clues to pollution damage

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012

Green-glowing zebrafish could offer new clues to the health impacts of pollution on both wildlife a…

Brain freeze offers new insight into headache

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012

The phenomenon of brain freeze – associated with eating ice-cream and cold drinks – has been used a…

New clues to cancer communication

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012

There is growing interest in the idea that the body’s immune system might be trained to fight cance…

Sanofi to close R&D and drug manufacturing site

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012

Sanofi are to close their drug manufacturing site in Newcastle, and the Genzyme R&D site in Cambrid…

Observing embryonic development

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012

Embryonic development that was previously unobservable has now become observable thanks to Cambridg…

Advances in blood clot switch understanding

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012

Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding how a biochemical switch linked to blood-clott…

Marine worm with a toxic diet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012

Faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments in which it lives, a small marine worm survi…

Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012

Glowing carbon nanotubes could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells or modified DNA molec…

Click chemistry to aid biotechnology research

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2012

A new technique to click together DNA and RNA segments has won researchers from Southampton and Oxf…

Revealing how a soil bacterium carries out surprising chemistry

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2012

An international team of researchers have discovered how soil bacteria utilising surprising chemist…

Tweezers break up Parkinson’s aggregates

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2012

Molecular tweezers have been shown to block protein aggregation, prevent toxicity and reverse aggre…

Inbreeding didn't kill off Wrangel mammoths

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012

Mammoths living on Wrangel Island didn’t go extinct due to inbreeding says new research.!--more--

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Fruit flies get kidney stones

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012

When exposed to certain dietary foods, fruit flies rapidly and reliably get kidney stones.!--more--…

Earth's clock refined

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012

Some events in Earth’s history may have happened more recently than previously thought suggests new…

Protecting cells from HIV

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2012

The protein SAMHD1 protects cells from infection by HIV, and researchers hope to harness its protec…

Ocean acidification speeds up

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2012

The oceans are acidifying faster today than at any other time in the past 300 million years say res…