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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…