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From laboratory to art gallery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2010

An artist has swapped the laboratory for an art gallery window and used microtitre plates in his la…

Strike averted at NPL

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2010

A last minute resolution has been offered to Prospect members at the National Physical Laboratory (…

Running a marathon can halt cell death

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 May 2010

It may hurt at the time but strenuous activity could halt programmed cell death.

Spin out success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 May 2010

Spin out company MGB BioPharma has been created by the University of Strathclyde to commercialise a…

Zero gravity for Newton’s tree

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2010

A piece of Newton’s apple tree – the tree which inspired the scientist to formulate his theory of g…

Listening to Mozart doesn’t make you smart

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2010

The ‘Mozart effect’ has gained widespread recognition since its publication in 1993, but a new stud…

Venus erupting

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2010

Venus is still geologically active, its surface being wiped clean by a gradual sequence of volcanic…

New techniques for gene sequencing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 May 2010

Next generation techniques have decoded the genome of the fungus Sordaria macrospora with some surp…

Proteins in urine indicate kidney cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2010

The presence of a pair of proteins in urine could lead to an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of…

Deep volcanic vents discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2010

A British scientific expedition has discovered the world’s deepest undersea volcanic vents in the C…

Tomato therapy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2010

Tomato plants could be used in cancer treatment after a study revealed that a tomato gene can cause…

Diamond receives £100m boost

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2010

The Diamond Light Source at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus has been allocated £97.4m by …

Blackcurrants reduce inflammation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Apr 2010

Natural chemicals found in blackcurrants may help reduce inflammation in asthma sufferers according…

Obesity epidemic blamed on bacteria

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Apr 2010

Scientists at the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia have published a study that…

Researchers generate artificial skin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Apr 2010

Scientists in Spain have generated artificial human skin via tissue engineering based on agarose-fi…

Cancer fighting molecules discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Apr 2010

An enzyme-blocker with a new mechanism of action has been discovered by scientists at the Universit…

Forensic sciences embrace the digital age

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Apr 2010

Imagine carrying out a post-mortem where you never have to cut into the human body – forensic scien…

Science champions named

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2010

Six individuals have been named as industry champions and will work with five universities to devel…

Sea shells inspire composite material

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2010

Using a combination of chalk and polystyrene, scientists have produced a tough composite material w…

Orange peel breakthrough in biofuels

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2010

Orange peels and newspapers may be the source of a clean, cheap fuel according to scientists from t…