All Biological Sciences
Frog-like robots to assist surgery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2013
A tiny robot inspired by the feet of tree-frogs is being built at the University of Leeds. The devi…
Turning cellulose into starch for new food source
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2013
A potential food source can be created from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops sugge…
Air-breathing batteries powered by the people
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Apr 2013
Researchers in Poland have created air-breathing biobatteries that may be used to power pacemakers,…
Flight of the bumblebee
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Apr 2013
A bumblebee is more stable when it is flying quickly, rather than hovering at slow speeds suggests …
Gravity affects sex in plants
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2013
Changes in gravity affect reproduction in plants, reveals a University of Montreal study. Their fin…
Turning a mobile into a low-cost microscope
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013
A cheap glass lens, a strip of double sided sticky tape and a simple torch are all you need to turn…
Brain preservation technique could lead to unreliable autopsies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013
For the first time, scientists have conducted neutron scattering experiments on brain tissue. They…
Mummy study reveals ancient ancestors’ clogged arteries
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2013
Ancient hunter-gatherers suffered from clogged arteries too, reveals a study published in The Lance…
Modelling the hearts of the unborn
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2013
An ECG device used in a study aimed at developing the first comprehensive model of the functioning …
Hopping back to the gene pool
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2013
Scientists have revitalised the genome of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning te…
Safer foot-and-mouth vaccine developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2013
Researchers from Diamond Light Source and The Pirbright Institute have developed a safer vaccine fo…
Sockeye salmon migrates magnetically
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2013
The sockeye salmon uses a magnetic map to return to its spawning ground after navigating across tho…
Alzheimer’s hope in form of wine and tea
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2013
Substances found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer’s disease pathwa…
How a brain cell can change its mind
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Harvard stem cell biologists have turned one type of already differentiated neurons into another wi…
Rats ‘touch’ infrared light
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2013
Neuroscience
Laboratory rats were given the ability to “touch” infrared light by Duke University res…
4D microscope captures motion in space and time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2013
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have developed techniques for visualising th…
Glacier melting accelerated by dark microbial life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2013
Scientists previously viewed glaciers as “lifeless lumps of ice” but an Aberystwyth University-led …
Ovary development theory overturned
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013
The theory of ovary development has been overturned by new research from the University of Adelaide…
A gullet-scanner the size of a pill
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2013
Medical Imaging
Researchers have developed an imaging system enclosed in a capsule about the size of…
The surprising way a tadpole regrows its tail
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2013
Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered, to their surprise, that a tadpole’s abi…
