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Why the kettle whistles

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2013

For more than 100 years, scientists have been puzzled as to why a kettle on the stove whistles – wh…

The planet that ‘shouldn’t exist’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Dec 2013

Astronomers have weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star and concluded that it shouldn’…

Fluid frenzy at MIT

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Nov 2013

In separate studies, two groups of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been…

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…

Ultra-compact dwarf galaxy discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2013

An ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a density of stars 15,000 times greater than the Milky Way has b…

Microfluidics competition

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2013

Could you design the next generation of microfluidics equipment – then Dolomite need you!!--more--

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Magellanic Stream mystery solved by Hubble telescope

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Sep 2013

A 40-year old mystery has been solved by astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They have…

Organic solar cells in a spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2013

Manipulating the ‘spin’ of electrons in organic solar cells can drastically improve their performan…

Solar tsunami used to measure Sun’s magnetic field

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Aug 2013

A solar tsunami has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun’s magnetic field.!…

Hear a heartbeat in space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2013

A new electronic stethoscope designed for NASA could deliver accurate heart and body sounds to doct…

Maths model explains why our Universe is a hologram

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2013

Researchers have taken a significant step to understanding the physics behind the structure of the …

Doughnut-shaped electromagnetic fields demystify dark matter

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2013

A pair of physicists say their simple theory may explain dark matter – the mysterious, invisible fo…

Mars – warm, wet and rusty long before Earth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

New evidence from the NASA Mars rover suggests that the red planet was wet, warm and had oxygen bil…

Putting the physics into spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

As the Ashes series gets underway next week, physicists from Australia have been exploring the phys…

Einstein’s theory aids planet-hunters

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2013

A team of astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s…

Universe evolved ability to make black holes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2013

The maths underpinning Darwin’s theory of natural selection might explain how the universe may be d…

Modelling the Sun’s magnetic field

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2013

The important mechanism behind the generation of astrophysical magnetic fields such as that of the …

It’s going pear-shaped for atomic nuclei

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2013

According to the Standard Model, we shouldn’t even exist – but an international team of physicists …

Coupling single atoms to form quantum states

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 May 2013

Scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states…

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…