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Flea mystery solved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2011
A debate that has raged on for 44 years has finally been settled by scientists in Cambridge: a sere…
Facing the pain
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2011
If you’re one of those people who hate blood tests, looking at your arm might reduce the pain you f…
Big four combine to give life sciences muscle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2011
The UK’s major human healthcare industries have joined forces to form LifeSciencesUK, a new initiat…
Ginger attracts stag beetle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2011
Ginger traps and miniature microphones are key to conserving the UK’s largest terrestrial beetle – …
Watery success for Acoustic cloak
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2011
Now you hear it, now you don’t – scientists have discovered how to hide underwater objects from son…
‘School science prescriptive’ says report
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2011
Students in a third of secondary schools are given a limited opportunity to design and carry out sc…
Yeast offers clue to Huntington’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2011
Scientists have uncovered a process thought to be implicated in Huntington’s disease using simple b…
Shoestring-budget experiment records curvature of Earth
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2011
A homemade experiment made on a shoestring budget has recorded a video of the Earth from the outer …
Bigger brained birds took to skies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2011
What can the flocculus tell scientists about flight, and did the dodo become flightless because its…
Coffee protects against diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011
Your early morning coffee might be doing more than just waking you up say American researchers who …
Mystery of Arctic mercury solved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011
The concentration of toxic mercury in humans and animals living in the polar regions is on the incr…
Smartphone set for blast off
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011
The humble mobile phone has come a long way in the last 25 years and scientists hope to use the lat…
Herpes hitches a ride on cellular protein
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2011
The herpes virus protein piggybacks the human cellular machinery, hijacking human cells and spreadi…
Pfizer to close Sandwich plant
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2011
Pharmaceuticals company Pfizer are to close their research and development facility in Sandwich, Ke…
Charitable funding for cystinosis research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Jan 2011
A chemically modified version of drug used to treat cystinosis could spell the end of its unpleasan…
One-stop-shop for cancer research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jan 2011
A one-stop-shop cancer drug discovery database has been launched by scientists who hope it will spe…
Keeping blood sugar under control
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2011
A new mechanism for controlling blood sugar levels following a meal has been discovered by scientis…
Couch potato sheds light on exercise and diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Mice lacking in a protein coactivator maintain normal activity and body weight, but can’t seem to m…
Banded penguins suffer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Trying to tell one penguin apart from another can be quite difficult – the tuxedoed birds tend to l…
Fatal childhood disease treated with soya
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2011
Soya beans could hold the key to treating a fatal childhood disease say researchers in Manchester, …
