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Heart attack deaths halve in last decade
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2012
The number of deaths in England caused by heart attacks has halved in the last decade say researche…

Hep C vaccine breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2012
A decade of research into hepatitis C may have yielded results as researchers in Canada have announ…

Time for something a little different...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2012
Slug-like aliens on a Segway and the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire – not necessarily two thin…

A prehistoric revolution (with video)
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2012
Dinosaurs just don’t work – they’re too large to have carried their colossal weight on four limbs w…

Manipulating antimatter with microwaves
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2012
By manipulating antihydrogen atoms with microwaves, scientists have provided the first glimpse of a…

UK Biobank opens
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Mar 2012
UK Biobank – a key resource for health research – opens today with more than 1,000 separate pieces …

Two legs better than four
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2012
Early ancestors began to walk on two instead of four limbs in order to carry as much food as possib…

Popcorn is healthy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2012
Popcorn might be a popular cinema treat, but popped corn can actually provide more antioxidants tha…

Gravity measured by globe-trotting gnome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2012
Kern the globe-trotting gnome heads to the South Pole on his latest leg of his round the world trip…

Nanoslinky created
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Mar 2012
American researchers have created the nanoslinky, a novel microfluidic technology for DNA manipulat…

Unravelling the genetic code of cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2012
Sequencing of two hereditary breast cancers caused by a faulty BRCA1 gene have revealed surprising …

Science World challenge launched
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2012
Schoolchildren are getting the chance to cook up their own product to display and sell among the ex…

GSK to build new manufacturing plant
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2012
GlaxoSmithKline are to build a new manufacturing facility in Cumbria and invest more than £500m in …

Oxford Innovation to boost Welsh life sciences
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2012
The Welsh Government has appointed Oxford Innovation to deliver the High Potential Starts programme…

Freshwater pool in western Arctic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Mar 2012
A strong Arctic wind is responsible for an enormous dome of freshwater in the western Arctic Ocean …

Silver-based drug as effective as Cisplatin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2012
Laboratory tests have shown that silver is as effective at treating cancer as the leading chemother…

Smart paint transforms structural safety
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2012
A smart paint made of recycled materials which can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mine…

Why spiders don’t stick to their own web
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
If you walk into a spider’s web, you generally get it stuck all over you, but spiders don’t stick t…

New sensor inspired by origami
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
Inspired by origami – the Japanese art of paper folding – American chemists have developed a point-…

Taking a numerical approach to fMRI
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
Functional magnetic resonance imaging only gives us a glimpse of what’s going on in the brain. Rese…