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New method for volcano eruption forecast developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015

By estimating the pressure in the magma-chamber of a volcano, geologists have developed a method to…

Cardiff University wins prestigious award

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015

Cardiff University’s mental health research facility, the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics …

Partnership to launch Compound Semiconductor Centre

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015

IQE – supplier of advanced semiconductor wafers – and Cardiff University have announced new partner…

Scientific passport required by Royal Society next year

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Dec 2015

From 2016, all papers submitted to the Royal Society will be required to have an identification cod…

Lead exposure can affect children’s sleep

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2015

Lead exposure in early childhood can increase the risk for sleep problems, new study finds.

Tim Peake becomes first Brit in Space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2015

Tim Peake will become the first British ESA astronaut to visit the International Space Station this…

Ancient bees collected pollen in two ways

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2015

The ancestors of honeybees that lived 50 million years ago collected pollen in two ways.

£10 million for University of Bristol spin-out

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2015

Funding worth £10.1 million has been awarded to the University of Bristol spin-out – developer of t…

Brain mechanism for durable memories revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2015

Rehearsing information immediately after being given it may be all you need to make it a permanent …

Martian valleys carved by less ancient water

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2015

Martian valleys could have been carved by much less water in a much shorter time span than previous…

Meat-cooking compounds increase the risk of kidney cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2015

Following a recent report by WHO suggesting the consumption of red and processed meat can increase …

Chicken study reveals speedy and dynamic evolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2015

Mutations in chicken genomes suggest that evolution rates could occur 15 times faster than previous…

£8 million to develop low-carbon technologies

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2015

NERC has announced £8 million for research ensuring the access of elements needed for environmental…

Life hits 4.1 billion years

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2015

New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.

Transport sector can reduce CO2 emission by 50% by 2050

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2015

The transportation’s sector CO2 emissions could be halved by 2050, according to new research.

New material for water desalination

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2015

Engineers at the University of Illinois have developed an energy efficient material for desalinatin…

Umbilical stem cells help retinal neurons grow

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2015

Cells found in human umbilical cord tissue could be used in the future for the treatment of degener…

Protein found to affect HA efficacy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2015

Hyaluronic acid (HA), used to treat osteoarthritis, could be modified to become even more useful fo…

New record set at CERN

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2015

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has achieved collisions between lead nuclei at the highest levels s…

2016 Breakthrough Prizes announced

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2015

The winners of the 2016 Breakthrough Prizes – worth $22 million in total (£15 million) – in life sc…