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Exploding star ends decade long search
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jul 2008
Scientists have, for the first time, observed a flash of ultraviolet light from within a dying star…

Is allergy a cruel evolutionary throwback?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jul 2008
Just as hay fever season kicks off in earnest scientists have discovered how evolution may have lum…

Can Science Feed Africa?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2008
A new £2.8 million study will bring together researchers from medicine, plant science, ecology, soc…

Stem cell breakthrough closes gap between mouse and human studies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2008
Scientists have shown for the first time that embryonic stem cells are able to self-renew without t…

Science gets in the festival spirit
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2008
For all those that didn’t make this years Cheltenham Science Festival, our girl on the ground Leila…

Dissolving glass stimulates bone growth
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008
Scientists from Imperial College London are developing a new form of glass, which can dissolve insi…

Space penetrator a smashing success
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008
Scientists have been smashing their instruments into the Welsh countryside in preparation for futur…
New skills plan for UK biosciences
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008
The UK’s first skills plan for bioscience has been launched mapping out exactly what skills bioscie…

Men and chocolate - both have a grey old time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008
Greying with age isn’t always a bad thing – both men and chocolate may lose their looks over a numb…

Collaboration extends cancer research tools
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2008
Cambridge Enterprise portfolio company Horizon Discovery is to link custom cell biology assays from…

Sticky patents licenced from MOD
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2008
Archimedes Development has licensed a portfolio of patents from Ploughshare Innovations - the techn…

Protein interaction explains life's complexity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2008
The complexity of an organism lies in the number of protein interactions in its body rather than th…

Laser fusion a step closer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2008
Scientists are one step closer to fusion power thanks to work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory…

Diamond shines in first real test
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2008
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have been the first to use the Diamond Light …

Cowboy lasso key to cancer treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2008
Scientists have compared a protein vital for passing on an accurate copy of the genome from mother …

Following leader not always best idea
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2008
For animals that live in social groups, and that includes humans, blindly following a leader could …

Volcanologists earn their crust
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2008
Scientists from Durham University have set off to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study…

Texting costs are astronomical
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jun 2008
A UK space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more e…

New guidlines published as mouse models thrown into question
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2008
As guidelines for animal testing are published, new genetic data suggests mouse models may not be r…

Sculpture resurrected thanks to science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2008
A dismantled Henry Moore sculpture could be re-erected in Kensington Gardens, thanks to the latest …