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Primordial soup secret revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2013

Scientists may have cracked a common conundrum about how objects from space could have kindled life…

Ring rain influences Saturn’s atmosphere

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 May 2013

Saturn’s atmosphere is home to more charged water particle “rain” than previously thought suggests …

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 …

A scaled-up solar system

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2013

A team of astrophysicists have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupite…

Turning winemakers’ trash into treasure

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2013

Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have realised leftover pulp (called pomace) from crush…

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…

“Spooky action at a distance” on the ISS

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013

The International Space Station (ISS) will reportedly host quantum entanglement experiments that ma…

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…

Mummy study reveals ancient ancestors’ clogged arteries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2013

Ancient hunter-gatherers suffered from clogged arteries too, reveals a study published in The Lance…

Modelling the hearts of the unborn

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2013

An ECG device used in a study aimed at developing the first comprehensive model of the functioning …

Hopping back to the gene pool

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2013

Scientists have revitalised the genome of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning te…

Safer foot-and-mouth vaccine developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2013

Researchers from Diamond Light Source and The Pirbright Institute have developed a safer vaccine fo…

World’s saltiest pond suggests water on Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2013

A team of geologists led by Brown University have discovered the secrets of a pond in Antarctica wi…

Spray-painting solar cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2013

University of Sheffield researchers have made solar cells using a spray painting-like process. The …