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Science not ‘glamorous’ and ‘not for me’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Feb 2012
Fewer than 17% of 10 year olds are interested in pursuing a career in science despite viewing scien…
S-Lab Awards call for entrants
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2012
S-Lab – in conjunction with the National HE STEM program – is looking for entries for the Effective…
Endomannosidase structure revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2012
The structure of an enzyme that hijacks human enzymes to reproduce and cause disease has been deter…
Magnetic breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2012
A revolutionary new way of magnetic recording could open the door for faster information processing…
Fool’s gold to improve catalysts
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2012
Fool’s gold may hold the key to better catalytic material
Iron pyrite – or Fool’s gold – could be an…
Smells like young fruit flies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2012
The younger you smell the more likely it is males will be attracted to you – at least that’s true f…
Students get taste of science and engineering
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2012
Students are getting a taste of science and engineering thanks to the Royal Society who have awarde…
Boost for successful IVF and foetal gender
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2012
By imaging and tracking movements in the egg during fertilisation, Welsh scientists can identify em…
It’s all about the soil temperature
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2012
By changing their sensitivity to plant hormones, dormant seeds detect and respond to changes in soi…
Down to the wire
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2012
A silicon wire just four atoms wide and one atom thick containing a string of phosphorus atoms has …
How do we recognise a face?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2012
The left side of the brain is analytical, and the right side is creative so goes the adage – but wh…
Tracking enhancers during development
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2012
Genetic sequences known as enhancers act like remote controls switching genes on and off and scient…
AstraZeneca restructure to affect 7,300 jobs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012
Following the publication of their full year 2011 results, AstraZeneca have announced a restructuri…
Starbursts and galaxies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012
Astronomers have found a link between starbursts in the early Universe and the most massive galaxie…
Magnetic soap created
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012
A soap that can be controlled by magnets has been created by scientists at the University of Bristo…
'Mind-expanding' mushrooms decrease brain activity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012
Instead of increasing brain activity, psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – suppr…
Graphitic naowiggles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2012
Caterpillar-like graphitic nanowiggles have exceptional conductivity and magnetic properties which …
MidaTech secure £6.3m through private investment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2012
Nanomedicine manufacturer MidaTech has secured £6.3 million through a private investment round to s…
Pause on avian flu research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2012
A two-month moratorium on studies that make the avian influenza virus H5N1 more transmissible betwe…
Planck has run dry
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2012
The Planck telescope is about to run out of coolant!--more--
Since 2009, a mixture of helium-3 and h…
