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Music by natural selection

June 21, 2012
Music evolves and ‘mates’ via natural selection according to new research from Imperial College London.Researchers wanted to test the theory that cultural changes in language, art and music evolve through...

Voyager to break interstellar space

June 21, 2012
Voyager 1 is about to cross over into interstellar space having travelled almost 18 billion km since its launch from Earth in 1977.The spacecraft has encountered a region of space...

New species of yeast discovered

June 21, 2012
A new rare and unusual species of yeast has been discovered at three separate locations across the world.The novel strain of yeast – Saccharomycopsis fodiens – was isolated in three...

Warm currents melt ice shelf underbelly

June 20, 2012
The air might not be warm enough to melt snow on top of glaciers, but warm ocean currents are thawing the underbellies of floating ice sheets in Antarctica say NASA...

Peptide immunotherapy to prevent diabetes

June 19, 2012
A new therapy for Type 1 diabetes could be in the pipeline thanks to a new project at King’s College London which has received a £2.3m Translation Award from the...

Cellular basis for age-related breast cancer vulnerability uncovered

June 18, 2012
The risk of breast cancer increases dramatically for women over the age of 50, but why has remained a mystery. However, researchers have uncovered a cellular basis for age-related breast...

DNA fingerprinting with lobSTR

June 18, 2012
A novel method for profiling short tandem repeats (STR) in personal genomes has been developed in America, bringing STR identification into the 21st Century.The three stage technique – named lobSTR...

New nano-factory to boost graphene research

June 15, 2012
Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material which could replace silicon in microchips thanks to its strength and conductivity, and researchers in the South-West have developed a nano-factory which...

New evidence for shunned Parkinson’s theory

June 14, 2012
A once-shunned theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops has received renewed support thanks to researchers in America. Using powerful computational tools and laboratory tests, scientists from the University of California...

IceCube puts cosmic ray theory on ice

June 13, 2012
A $272m telescope buried deep beneath the South Pole has failed to find any neutrinos accompanying exploding fireballs in space, undermining a leading theory on how cosmic rays are born.IceCube...

Biological trigger for high blood pressure found

June 13, 2012
A biological tipping point in the development of high blood pressure may have been discovered by researchers at St George’s University of London.The team discovered that the reduced activity of...

Nature-inspired surface for self-cleaning glass

June 11, 2012
A new multifunctional glass that allows water droplets to bounce of its surface like tiny rubber balls has been developed by scientists in America.The surface, inspired by Nature’s textured surfaces,...

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