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Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013
Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by co…
Acid rain plays role in Great Dying
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…
New mammalian cell culture facility
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Nov 2013
A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by…
Sticky sperm
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2013
Sticky sperm could hold the key to greater success for those undergoing IVF treatment say researche…
Sea louse with second body clock
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Nov 2013
The tiny speckled sea louse boasts not one but two body clocks – one for night and day, and one fo…
Science Nobels awarded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…
New technique to image cell interior
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2013
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see ti…
Plant scientists pick wrong model
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Oct 2013
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists be…
Breaking the blood-brain barrier
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Oct 2013
Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs…
Sorting the good from the bad bacteria
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2013
There are good bacteria and bad bacteria – some coexisting in the same species – and researchers at…
‘Writing’ artificial membranes on graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2013
Graphene has emerged as a versatile new surface on which to assemble model cell membranes mimicking…
Ribosome-building dance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2013
An important step in building ribosomes is like a strictly choreographed dance say scientists from …
Scientists view 3D chromosomes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2013
Researchers have been able to model the structure of chromosomes when they are active using a novel…
Left or right? It’s not genetic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2013
It is often assumed that handedness is inherited but a new study rules out a strong genetic factor …
Multiple mates improves disease resistance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2013
Being promiscuous may have benefits say researchers who have found mating with different males help…
British baked beans – yes please
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2013
Baked beans are a staple of the British diet, with over 1.7 million cans consumed in the UK every y…
An evolutionary fear of holes?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2013
Trypophobia is the most common fear you’ve never heard of – but what is it about clusters of holes …
Plant geometry secret revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Sep 2013
Researchers from the University of Leeds have discovered how plants set the angles of their branche…
Polypill key to preventative medicine
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2013
Taking several pills for one condition is an undesirable but necessary scenario for many, but a new…
Helping hand for panda cubs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Sep 2013
As Edinburgh Zoo eagerly anticipates the birth of a panda cub, scientists in Glasgow – together wit…
