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Bettering Haber-Bosch

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2011

Cambridge researchers think they’ve figured out a way to improve the efficiency of ammonia synthesi…

New component to gravity explains anomaly

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2011

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can be reconciled with a new force which explains the rotation of s…

Antibiotics boost

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2011

A company developing novel DNA-based antibiotic technology against drug-resistant infections has re…

New home for cell research

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010

Scientists investigating the building blocks of life are being built a new home at the University o…

Is Santa toxic?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010

How does Santa survive in the North Pole? Not only is it freezing cold, but everything he eats is l…

Saving the Christmas tree

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010

Your living room floor is awash with needles from the Christmas tree because the plant hormone ethy…

Tropical mistletoe discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010

A new parasitic tropical mistletoe has been described just in time for Christmas. The mistletoe – d…

Variant for reduced hypertension discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2010

A genetic variation that is associated with reduced hypertension and a 7.7% reduction in cardiovasc…

Perforin packs a punch

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2010

The human immune system’s assassin – the protein perforin – has been seen in action for the first t…

Where are the women?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2010

There’s a real lack of women representing science – most young adults can’t name a female scientist…

Urine test for CAD

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2010

A simple urine test that looks for particular protein expressions can detect coronary artery diseas…

Hope for combined muscle stimulator

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010

A microchip that stimulates muscles and helps people with paraplegia exercise their leg muscles wil…

New bacteria eats away at Titanic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010

The hull of the famous RMS Titanic, which sunk in April 1912, is harbouring a lot more than the shi…

Sci-fi screwdriver being developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010

Somewhere on children’s Christmas list this year there’s bound to be Doctor Who’s famous cure-all g…

Grey fabric could save the day

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Dec 2010

An ordinary-looking piece of grey fabric could be a life saver as it has been designed to filter ou…

Gene variation means ‘perfection’ impossible

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2010

No human carries a perfect genome with each person carrying between 250 and 300 genetic variations …

Obesity riddle sovled

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2010

The prevalence of overweight children spontaneously dropped if they followed a high-protein, low-GI…

Attention test suggests early start for Alzheimer’s

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2010

Alzheimer’s disease may begin as early as 40 say researchers who have developed simple attention te…

New forms of life on Earth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010

It turns out phosphorus isn’t a necessary part of our DNA say American scientists who discovered a …

Pimping-up graphene

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010

By tinkering with graphene, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners has developed a flat crystal ver…