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Nuclear power under scrutiny

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2008

As the government gives its formal backing to a new generation of nuclear power stations, the Unive…

Giant palm goes out in blaze of glory

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2008

A gigantic palm that flowers itself to death and exists as part of an entirely unique genus has bee…

Antibiotic resistance: A global phenomenon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2008

Scientists have discovered antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the Arctic, suggesting that drug-resist…

HIV cell puncturing pathway changes conventional wisdom

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2008

Two theoretical physicists have uncovered what they believe is the long-sought-after pathway that H…

Want to keep your partner? Better be cooperative

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2008

Mathematicians have tackled the question of why cooperative behaviour is common in many species whe…

Electrons given easy ride in graphene

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2008

Research has revealed that charged particles move through graphene, the 2D counterpart of graphite,…

Biofuel selectivity key to greenhouse reduction

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2008

Biofuels could fail to deliver significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and may even be e…

Meta-material gives near perfect medical scan

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2008

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have mathematically shown that it is possible to have fu…

Young, gifted and in with a chance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jan 2008

Applications are invited for a €15,000 prize intended to encourage and support the work of promisin…

Autumn warming reduces carbon uptake

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jan 2008

Research has suggested that, in terms of carbon, we lose more than we gain from warmer autumns.

Chemical engineers scoop Dragon's Den style award

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jan 2008

A team of UK Chemical Engineers have won the support of an International PR agency, after being awa…

Hydrogen power squeezed into reality

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2008

The prospect of hydrogen-fuelled cars may be one step closer thanks to a new form of compound disco…

Infections gets nosis put out of joint

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2008

The UK’s National Centre for Zoonosis Research, dedicated to the study of animal-borne human diseas…

UK cuts research budget as Europe pushes for greater spend

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2008

Public spending on medical research in Europe should be doubled over the next ten years to ensure t…

Strong BERT quells ERNI

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2008

BERT and ERNI may be familiar to Sesame Street fans, but now researchers have found that play a vit…

Turning physics up to 11

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2008

Rock guitars, superstrings, 11 dimensions and the world’s largest and highest energy particle accel…

Plucking scientists get to root of problem

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2008

It sounds like something from a science fiction novel: Pluck a few of someone’s hairs, and four to …

Xmas carbon emissions over the moon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2008

The season’s festivities are over and you are back to work with a bump, but new research suggests t…

Moss - a supermodel of a different kind

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2008

New genetic sequencing research on one of the simplest plants on the planet could help scientists c…

Kelvin centenary marked at Westminster Abbey

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2008

The University of Glasgow has marked the centenary of the death of its most illustrious scientist a…