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Coral heading for disaster warn Zoological Society

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Aug 2009

Coral reef survival is balancing on a knife edge as the effects of ocean acidification and warming …

A watched nanopillar always bends…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Aug 2009

UK researchers have solved a rather bendy nanotechnology problem by realising that observation itse…

Galileo ahead of the game – by 234 years

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2009

Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, …

Marching soldiers charge batteries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2009

Engineers have found a way of converting kinetic energy produced when soldiers march into electrici…

Watching the infectors

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2009

Thanks to research from the University of Bath and the University of Exeter, it is now possible to …

Feel terrific - be low calorific

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2009

Rhesus monkeys now join the list of creatures - from yeast to rats - who live longer and better whe…

Killer cell secret key to immunological puzzle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2009

Scientists say they have solved a great immunological puzzle as they explain how the body’s immune …

Plant love makes for a good defense

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2009

Why do some plants defend themselves from insect attacks better than others? New evidence shows tha…

Genomic approach gives old dog new tricks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2009

As one of best known and extensively studied organisms in the world you might think that there are …

Global warming: Are the models wrong?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Aug 2009

It has become one of the most important questions of modern science – but are we looking in the rig…

Will the UK boldly go?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2009

As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, the Department for Bus…

Cannabis use avoids hard drug addiction in orphans

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2009

New findings hint that the active ingredient of cannabis could have beneficial effects for opiate a…

New centre boosts UK’s genomic capacity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2009

Just as calls come for the UK to be better at handling genomic data - A new national genome centre …

Forensic job losses precursor to sell-off

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2009

Unions think the radical transformation plan for the Forensic Science Service is softening up the o…

Journey to examine swirling plastic vortex

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2009

A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific …

Synchrotron goes all arty

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009

With vast particle accelerators and finely tuned magnetic and electric fields, synchrotrons are nor…

Giant prehistoric bird gets ‘clothed’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009

Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have completed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the …

Want to go green? Then go algal

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009

Students from Cambridge University have won an international award for their design of an “algae ho…

Waggling wings cut emissions by 20 percent

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2009

In a surprise discovery, UK engineers have found that aircraft wings which redirect air to waggle s…

Space weather warning from ‘double pulse’ radar

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jul 2009

University of Leicester researchers have taken a step forward in helping to create a defence for ea…