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Galapagos reptiles face mozzy threat

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2009

The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife are facing a new threat from disease, as som…

Anti-inbreeding trick found in poppy genome

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jul 2009

Scientists have identified an elusive male gene in the field poppy that stops self-fertilization, a…

We all love a good laugh - even the great apes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jul 2009

Human laughter can be traced back 10-16 million years to the last common ancestor of humans and gre…

Selfish gene makes for a nasty virus

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2009

Scientists studying why parasites are not more harmful to their hosts have discovered that as the w…

Champagne for a new supernova

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009

Astronomers from the University of Warwick believe that a mystery stellar explosion during 2006 was…

Scientists really rate robot rat

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009

A team of scientists have developed a robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its w…

Elephants told to buzz off!

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009

Scientists from Oxford University, in collaboration with the charity Save The Elephants, have used …

Time for a scientific code of ethics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009

New meta-survey raises serious concerns about scientific misconduct

Biotech buoyant – but fragile

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2009

Despite worldwide economic turmoil, the global biotechnology industry delivered a solid financial p…

Astronomers comb the stars for planets

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009

Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant …

Sandcastle secret used for new materials

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009

The secret of building a perfect sandcastle is in making sure the sand is neither too wet nor too d…

Detecting the undetectable

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009

How do you do about detecting something that has yet to be created? Well Scientists from the SLAC N…

Cheltenham Science Festival brings fun and learning

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009

Once again, Cheltenham Science Festival brought together an eclectic group of scientists and scienc…

Nanocrystals key to cheap lasers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2009

Scientists think they may have opened the door to dramatically less expensive and more versatile la…

Better batteries? The answer is blowing in the wind…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2009

A new generation of electric cars, mobile phones and laptops could be just around the corner thanks…

Sports drinks outdone by humble cereal

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jun 2009

A bowl of whole-grain cereal is as good as a sports drink for recovery after exercise.

Just why do unusual things persist?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2009

Rare traits persist in a population because predators detect common forms of prey more easily.

Attack on great pillar of physics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2009

A new paper by a UK academic attempts to slay two giants in one claiming that the Large Hadron Coll…

Nature holds key to improved carbon capture

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jun 2009

A team of academics have gone back to nature to figure out how to bring carbon capture and storage …

Human nose too cold for flu

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jun 2009

Avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside a person\'s nose is …