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Researchers begin to crack magnetic mystery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2009

A seven decade magnetic mystery involving space hunts and quantum probes could have ended thanks to…

Pokemon and 2012 Olympics set off epilepsy trail

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2009

What did an episode of the Pokemon cartoon in 1997 and the promotion of the 2012 London Olympics ha…

Honeybee queens too conservative in the bedroom

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2009

The answer to the decline in honeybee numbers could lay in the bedroom habits of the queen say Univ…

Eureka moment offers neuron breakthrough

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2009

Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists finally have an idea of the function of …

Is it time to change how we think of fossil fuels?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2009

Battling with scientific consensus, one scientist says we have got it wrong when to comes to oil an…

Hey scientist – just how do you think?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2009

Dr Nancy J Nersessian has studied the cognitive processes that underlie scientific creativity by ob…

Notation for biologists

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2009

The first standard graphical notation for biology has recently been launched by the European Molecu…

Scientists turn off ‘obesity gene’ in mice

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2009

Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a gene that appears to control obesity in…

Nanotube separation wins BNC new contract

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Sep 2009

Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) has signed its largest contract to date with an unnamed chemical company.

Space technology transfer handled by SFTC

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2009

STFC Innovations - the technology transfer office of the Science & Technology Facilities Council - …

A light solution to amorous birds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Sep 2009

Oxford University researchers have discovered how birds sense the lengthening days of early Spring …

Mutated mitochondria promote premature ageing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Sep 2009

Researchers have shown how mitochondria - popularly known as the cells\' power plants - can be the …

Researchers FRET over vesicle formation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2009

New insights into vesicle formation could open up prospects for the research of neurological and in…

Replica brain possible – but funding stands in way

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2009

Creating a replication of the human brain is a feasible short term goal according to neuroscientist…

Parasitic sleight of hand key to Leishmaniasis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2009

New research, led by Imperial College London, suggests the parasites that cause the tropical diseas…

You spin me white round

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2009

The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray telescope has uncovered the fastest rotating white dwa…

Just how ripe is that pineapple?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Sep 2009

A new system based on metal oxide sensors could check the safety and quality of foods reliably, qui…

Cellular alarm bell secrets uncovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Sep 2009

Scientists have discovered how cells react to a molecular ‘alarm bell’ that goes off when their DNA…

The mystery of the vanishing Martian methane

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Sep 2009

The 2004 discovery of methane means that either there is life on Mars, or that volcanic activity co…

Chemistry in fine health – but definitely room for improvement

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Sep 2009

An international review of chemistry research in the UK has found that despite overall health being…