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Malaria drug can combat cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2011

An anti-malaria drug used in combination with cancer treatments can enhance its effectiveness by ov…

Master switch for inflammation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Mar 2011

A master switch in certain white blood cells determines whether they promote or inhibit inflammatio…

Newborn mice heal broken heart

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2011

Move over zebrafish – newborn mammals can heal their hearts too say researchers in America.

Science proves Guinness better in Ireland

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2011

Its official – Guinness tastes better in Ireland say researchers who spent twelve months travelling…

Super star

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2011

Scientists studying the remnants of Cassiopeia A – a massive star that exploded 330 years ago – hav…

Caterpillars under threat metamorphasise early

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2011

Caterpillars that protect themselves from predators by regurgitating semi-digested cabbage pay for …

Large missions debated by ESA

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2011

Although 2020 is almost a decade away, the European Space Agency is busy debating which large missi…

Vision loss pinpointed and test developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2011

Glaucoma threatens the sight of millions each year and one group of American scientists think they’…

Super speed broadband

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2011

Waiting for a website to load is annoying at the best of times but a new research project aimed at …

Learning increased with brain stimulation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Mar 2011

Cerebral stimulation may be used to treat functional disorders of the brain thanks to research whic…

p63 – the cause of female infertility

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2011

Cancer treatment can often leave women infertile and researchers in Germany believe they have begun…

Blue cheeses under the microscope

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2011

Blue cheeses are going under the microscope as scientists in the East Midlands try to figure out wh…

Goldilocks explains lack of dino tracks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2011

The Goldilocks Effect – where all conditions have to be ‘just right’ – might explain why dinosaur t…

Hope for rare chameleon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2011

A new population of a critically endangered Madagascan chameleon has been found on the island just …

Protein collisions derail DNA replication

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2011

DNA replication is riskier than originally thought say researchers at the University of Nottingham …

Earth’s core rotates slower than thought

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2011

The Earth’s core is moving at one degree every million years, not one degree each year as scientist…

Powerful microscope to solve virus riddle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2011

The standard optical microscope can only see items around 1 micrometre – 0.001mm – clearly, but res…

First crustacean genome sequenced

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Mar 2011

The humble water flea might be too small to see, but is valuable as a marker for pollution and toxi…

Unlocking the Sun’s secrets

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2011

In their quest to unlock the secrets of the Sun, scientists from Sheffield and Belfast have observe…

Southern carbon sinks on the rise

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Feb 2011

Polar carbon sinks may be increasing say researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who ha…