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Aphids act as pawns to spread viruses

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2014

Aphids have become the pawns of crop-infecting viruses which influence their host and force them to…

Who are the scientists? 100 leading UK practising scientists listed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2014

A list of the 100 leading UK practicing scientists has been compiled by the Science Council to high…

S-Lab Awards 2014

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jan 2014

S-Lab have launched their third Award scheme and conference to highlight best practice in achieving…

Chemical structures transferred to public domain

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2014

Patented chemical structures are to be transferred to the public domain, giving researchers access …

Ground breaking European missions to probe early universe

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2014

The ESA has announced their next two L-class missions; one to study galaxy and black hole formation…

Scientists feature in New Year's Honours

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2014

Science featured heavily in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list with the following being awarded to pr…

Nanoparticles and the environment

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Dec 2013

Metallic nanoparticles have many possible uses – including clean fuel technology and high density s…

Lion’s Lair winners

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Dec 2013

Cleaver Scientific scooped first prize in the Lion’s Lair at LABINNOVATIONS for its ‘Safe’ Series, …

‘Swiss army knife’ secret of RNA polymerase I

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013

The 3-dimensional structure of a molecular machine scientists have likened to the Swiss army knife …

Unique organ gives koalas low-pitched call

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013

Koalas have an unusual mating call; its pitch is about 20 times lower than it should be for an anim…

Award for talented eight

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2013

Eight recent graduates are set to follow in the footsteps of luminaries such as Professor Peter Hig…

Network nanotrain arrives on time

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2013

Powered by nanoscale motors and controlled by DNA – the latest tiny self-assembling transport netwo…

Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013

Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by co…

Nanoparticles by design

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013

Researchers in Japan say they have succeeded in designing and creating multicomponent nanoparticles…

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…

Nanoparticles deliver punch to breast cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2013

Triple negative breast cancer – an aggressive form of the disease – is very difficult to treat; res…

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’…

Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2013

Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…

Unexpected boron coupling reaction

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2013

Two positively charged compounds of boron have been joined to form a chain of four boron atoms in a…

New mammalian cell culture facility

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Nov 2013

A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by…