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Super-Earths likely to be dead worlds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2014

Many of the super-Earths discovered in recent planet-hunting missions are likely to be dead, uninha…

New hope for CNS damage

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2014

It might be possible to reprogram and repair nerves damaged through spinal cord injury and brain tr…

Ebola outbreak in West Africa

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2014

Five new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been recorded in Guinea in the last 24 hours accor…

Preserving fertility in young male cancer patients

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2014

Freezing testicular tissue from young boys who are not yet sexually mature before they undergo canc…

Cosmic collision created ringed planet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Apr 2014

A comet-like planet surrounded by two fine rings of ice and pebbles has been found between Saturn a…

Early arthropods evolved into filter feeders

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Mar 2014

Newly discovered fossils of marine animal Tamisiocaris suggest the early arthropod evolved into sus…

Ubiquibodies mark proteins for destruction

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Mar 2014

A newly engineered type of antibody fragment which mark specific proteins inside a cell with a mole…

Merm1 cancer target

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2014

A newly-discovered enzyme is supressed in cancer and lung inflammation and could help in the develo…

Understanding chromatography saves pharma big money

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2014

By fine tuning a critical process in drug manufacture, researchers at Rice University say they can …

Edinburgh student scoops Abcam award

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2014

Edinburgh student Yali Huang has won the Abcam 15 Discoveries Contest, receiving a $15,000 research…

Epigenetic root to endometriosis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2014

An epigenetic modification could be an integral component in endometriosis and its progression sugg…

Antimicrobial pizza herb

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2014

A simple herb used on pizzas could play an important role in defeating the winter vomiting bug say …

Surplus neurons could cause neurodevelopmental disorders

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2014

Autism could be caused by cells called microglia failing to trim unnecessary connections between ne…

The slow thaw

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2014

Despite the headline-making recent insights, some maintain the Universe didn’t start with the Big B…

New evidence for Big Bang

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2014

Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansio…

Synthetic Dirac monopoles visualised

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2014

Eighty years ago, Paul Dirac discovered a quantum-mechanical structure which allowed the existence …

Wobbly spinning top planet found

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2014

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a wobbly planet akin to a child’s spinning top near the c…

Circadian clock sensitive to vibration

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Mar 2014

The internal circadian clock of the fruit fly can be influenced by more than just the cycle of nigh…

Engraving glass prevents shattering

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2014

Drop a glass on the floor and the likelihood is it will smash; do the same with a seashell and it w…

Prostate cancer drugs ‘not treating root cause’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2014

New drugs aimed at treating prostate cancer may not be targeting the root cause of the disease say …