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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…

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…