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Science World challenge launched
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2012
Schoolchildren are getting the chance to cook up their own product to display and sell among the ex…
GSK to build new manufacturing plant
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2012
GlaxoSmithKline are to build a new manufacturing facility in Cumbria and invest more than £500m in …
Oxford Innovation to boost Welsh life sciences
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2012
The Welsh Government has appointed Oxford Innovation to deliver the High Potential Starts programme…
Freshwater pool in western Arctic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Mar 2012
A strong Arctic wind is responsible for an enormous dome of freshwater in the western Arctic Ocean …
Silver-based drug as effective as Cisplatin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2012
Laboratory tests have shown that silver is as effective at treating cancer as the leading chemother…
Smart paint transforms structural safety
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2012
A smart paint made of recycled materials which can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mine…
Why spiders don’t stick to their own web
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
If you walk into a spider’s web, you generally get it stuck all over you, but spiders don’t stick t…
New sensor inspired by origami
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
Inspired by origami – the Japanese art of paper folding – American chemists have developed a point-…
Taking a numerical approach to fMRI
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
Functional magnetic resonance imaging only gives us a glimpse of what’s going on in the brain. Rese…
Food crops damaged by continent-travelling pollution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2012
Europe loses 1.2 million tonnes of wheat a year because of man-made air pollution sweeping across t…
Next generation solar cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2012
A new type of solar cell that generates two electrons from every photon absorbed has the potential …
‘Goldilocks’ gene dictates TB response
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Mar 2012
A ‘Goldilocks’ gene that dictates whether your response to tuberculosis is ‘too much, ‘too little’ …
A deadly solution (Video exclusive)
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2012
Faced with snakes, spiders and scorpions – there was only one thing the Lab News team could do; mak…
Protein family hails Hypoxia breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2012
The discovery of a new family of proteins which regulate the body’s hypoxic response has allowed a …
Spider’s web resists damage
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2012
It’s not just the strength of the silk that makes a spider’s web so strong, say researchers in Amer…
Ancient mating song revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2012
The mating song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been bought back to life…
Mathematics of a heart beat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012
A new mathematical model that looks at the calcium activity within the atrial heart cell could sign…
Get your teeth into it
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012
Milk teeth and permanent adult teeth do not develop in the same way suggests new research which cou…
Redefining the kilogram
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012
British researchers are leading the way when it comes to redefining the kilogram.!--more--
The kilog…
T. rex has most powerful bite
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Feb 2012
An adult Tyrannosaurus rex has the most powerful bite of any terrestrial animal suggests a new comp…