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What happens when the lights go out?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2012
While the flash might draw attention, the female of the species looks for substance over show – at …
New class of porous material stores carbon dioxide
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2012
A novel material with unique carbon dioxide retention properties could play a role in reducing emis…
Open access policy strengthened by Wellcome Trust
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2012
The Wellcome Trust is to enforce its open access policy and withhold funding from scientists who do…
Cooler washes with nanodiamonds
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2012
Washing at lower temperatures is preferable, but what if you could do your week’s washing at just 1…
Vision restored in night blind mice
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2012
Mice suffering from night blindness had their vision restored after scientists from University Coll…
Tomato genome sequenced
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2012
The tomato is a major crop plant and model for fruit development, and scientists have released a hi…
New technique to improve epigenetics research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jun 2012
Scientists have developed a new chemical technique that will significantly improve their ability to…
Nottingham and GSK launch Centre of Excellence
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jun 2012
GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Nottingham have formalised a collaboration to establish a Cen…
Obesity receptor structure solved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2012
The structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor has been defined, and could help in the p…
Working toward an eco-robot
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2012
Researchers working on an environmentally friendly robot which decomposes at the end of its useful …
Drug combination to treat prostate cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2012
Combining two new prostate cancer drugs could delay drug resistance and increase the number of men …
Special Report: Free access to peer review
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2012
In an article in The Guardian last month, Minister of State for Universities and Science David Will…
No 3D structure for peculiar protein
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2012
An unusual protein which lacks any definable structure – defying the long-held notion that a protei…
Music by natural selection
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012
Music evolves and ‘mates’ via natural selection according to new research from Imperial College Lon…
Voyager to break interstellar space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012
Voyager 1 is about to cross over into interstellar space having travelled almost 18 billion km sinc…
New species of yeast discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2012
A new rare and unusual species of yeast has been discovered at three separate locations across the …
Warm currents melt ice shelf underbelly
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2012
The air might not be warm enough to melt snow on top of glaciers, but warm ocean currents are thawi…
Peptide immunotherapy to prevent diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2012
A new therapy for Type 1 diabetes could be in the pipeline thanks to a new project at King’s Colleg…
Cellular basis for age-related breast cancer vulnerability uncovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2012
The risk of breast cancer increases dramatically for women over the age of 50, but why has remained…
DNA fingerprinting with lobSTR
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2012
A novel method for profiling short tandem repeats (STR) in personal genomes has been developed in A…
