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Harnessing the heat

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Feb 2011

Scientists are digging deep into the ground hoping to harness the Earth’s geothermal energy to use …

Oral insulin collaboration signed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Feb 2011

Biopharmaceutical company Emisphere Technologies has entered into an exclusive Development and Lice…

World’s oldest water found?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Feb 2011

Deep saline groundwater in South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin may have remained isolated for many t…

Roasting biomass

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Feb 2011

Pre-roasting plant matter could lead to more green fuel being burned in coal-fired power stations s…

Can’t get up in the morning?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Feb 2011

Fruit flies have trouble waking up because they’ve lost a gene dubbed ‘twenty-four’ which disrupts …

Blood pressure revolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Feb 2011

The way your doctor takes your blood pressure could change thanks to ground-breaking technology tha…

Inspiration in the strangest places

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2011

The ice cream cone – plus scoop – has provided an unlikely source of inspiration for the next gener…

Sleepwalking sussed?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2011

Imagine suddenly waking up in the open air and not knowing where you are: it’s a real prospect for …

Flea mystery solved

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2011

A debate that has raged on for 44 years has finally been settled by scientists in Cambridge: a sere…

Facing the pain

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2011

If you’re one of those people who hate blood tests, looking at your arm might reduce the pain you f…

Big four combine to give life sciences muscle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2011

The UK’s major human healthcare industries have joined forces to form LifeSciencesUK, a new initiat…

Ginger attracts stag beetle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2011

Ginger traps and miniature microphones are key to conserving the UK’s largest terrestrial beetle – …

Watery success for Acoustic cloak

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2011

Now you hear it, now you don’t – scientists have discovered how to hide underwater objects from son…

‘School science prescriptive’ says report

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2011

Students in a third of secondary schools are given a limited opportunity to design and carry out sc…

Yeast offers clue to Huntington’s

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2011

Scientists have uncovered a process thought to be implicated in Huntington’s disease using simple b…

Shoestring-budget experiment records curvature of Earth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2011

A homemade experiment made on a shoestring budget has recorded a video of the Earth from the outer …

Bigger brained birds took to skies

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2011

What can the flocculus tell scientists about flight, and did the dodo become flightless because its…

Coffee protects against diabetes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011

Your early morning coffee might be doing more than just waking you up say American researchers who …

Mystery of Arctic mercury solved

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011

The concentration of toxic mercury in humans and animals living in the polar regions is on the incr…

Smartphone set for blast off

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2011

The humble mobile phone has come a long way in the last 25 years and scientists hope to use the lat…