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X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2013
Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs an…

UK leads the way in ‘legal high’ analysis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013
A team at the University of Lincoln, UK, is leading the way in new research aimed at detecting the …

Coral reef skeleton can survive even in acidic oceans
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2013
For the first time, scientists have described the biological process of how corals create their ske…

Fibre-optic pen aids understanding of dyslexia
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013
A fibre-optic pen developed at the University of Washington will help scientists to see inside the …

New layer of human cornea discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013
Research at University of Nottingham has uncovered a previously undetected layer in the cornea, the…

Printing artificial bone
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to design synthetic bone-like materials and quickly turn…

Why strawberries taste like strawberries
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013
Researchers have discovered what gives ripe strawberries their characteristic aroma.!--more-- Acco…

Neutrons reveal potential dangers of pharma’s golden bullet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2013
Gold nanoparticles are projected to be the ‘magic bullet’ of drug delivery, but scientists working …

Coral reefs could be saved by geoengineering
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2013
At-risk tropical coral reefs could be bought time by limiting the amount of warming experienced by …

Alligator’s smile provides tooth regeneration clues
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2013
Scientists are studying alligators in order to potentially understand how to stimulate tooth regene…

Flesh-eating plant discards DNA ‘junk’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2013
Scientists have spent decades puzzling over why noncoding DNA makes up the majority (98%) of the hu…

Wood-eating gribble could be key to biofuel future
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2013
Studying the gribble, a tiny marine organism that eats wood, has revealed a surprising discovery th…

Control a flying robot with just your thoughts
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2013
University of Minnesota researchers have developed a new non-invasive system that allows people to …

Quantum carotenoids shine light on photosynthesis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 May 2013
The mechanism by which carotenoids help chlorophyll turn light into chemical energy has been uncove…

Hunter-gatherers had a taste for fish
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 May 2013
The first study to directly address the often posed question, “why did humans make pots?” reveals t…

3D printed shapes mimic living tissue
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2013
A custom-built programmable 3D printer that can print materials with the properties of living tissu…

Sensing an invisible hand
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 May 2013
The ability to recognise your own body is more complicated than you think, suggest Swedish scientis…

Mathematicians solve a foamy problem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2013
Two researchers from University of California Berkeley have now described mathematically the succes…

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…