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Caging water to study spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014

A pioneering method of caging and cooling water molecules to study its nuclear spin conversion coul…

Breakthrough against antibiotic resistance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014

A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by a team from the Universi…

US researchers exposed to live anthrax

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014

Failure to adhere to proper procedure means as many as 75 scientists in America may have been expos…

Research Councils adopt new reporting platform

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014

The seven UK Research Councils have announced they are to begin using a uniform digital platform fo…

Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014

Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cance…

Statins of questionable value

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014

Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adul…

Chemical sensor on a chip

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014

Infrared laser beams are ideal for analysing liquids and gases, and scientists in Vienna have minia…

Liquid biopsy to track lung cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014

A liquid biopsy using a patient’s blood sample could offer a new way to track lung cancer say resea…

Origami on the microscopic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014

Dutch researchers have taken the ancient art of origami down to the microscopic level, folding flat…

Travel Fellowships for science communicators

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2014

To mark its 50th anniversary in 2015, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust is to invest £1.2m in Br…

One-size-fits-all synthetic blood

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2014

Donated blood has a short shelf-life – only 35 days for red cells – but now researchers in Essex ho…

Proteome catalogue reveals 193 unknown proteins

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014

A proteome catalogue has revealed 193 novel proteins in regions of the genome not predicted to code…

Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014

A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and m…

Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2014

A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times…

That ‘gut feeling’ explained

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014

By severing the brain-gut communication channel, researchers have got to the bottom of the proverbi…

Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014

The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought…

Incentives needed to encourage data sharing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jun 2014

New types of incentives within the biomedical research community are necessary to improve sharing o…

New method to detect counterfeit drugs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jun 2014

Counterfeit medicines could now be detected more efficiently thanks to a new chemical analysis meth…

Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2014

The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth…

Soft touch gone awry in autism

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2014

Nerves in the skin that respond to gentle touch may go awry in disorders such as autism say researc…