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Journey to examine swirling plastic vortex
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2009
A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific …
Synchrotron goes all arty
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009
With vast particle accelerators and finely tuned magnetic and electric fields, synchrotrons are nor…
Giant prehistoric bird gets ‘clothed’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009
Scientists from Australia and New Zealand have completed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the …
Want to go green? Then go algal
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2009
Students from Cambridge University have won an international award for their design of an “algae ho…
Waggling wings cut emissions by 20 percent
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2009
In a surprise discovery, UK engineers have found that aircraft wings which redirect air to waggle s…
Space weather warning from ‘double pulse’ radar
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jul 2009
University of Leicester researchers have taken a step forward in helping to create a defence for ea…
Galapagos reptiles face mozzy threat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2009
The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife are facing a new threat from disease, as som…
Anti-inbreeding trick found in poppy genome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jul 2009
Scientists have identified an elusive male gene in the field poppy that stops self-fertilization, a…
We all love a good laugh - even the great apes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jul 2009
Human laughter can be traced back 10-16 million years to the last common ancestor of humans and gre…
Selfish gene makes for a nasty virus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2009
Scientists studying why parasites are not more harmful to their hosts have discovered that as the w…
Champagne for a new supernova
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
Astronomers from the University of Warwick believe that a mystery stellar explosion during 2006 was…
Scientists really rate robot rat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
A team of scientists have developed a robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its w…
Elephants told to buzz off!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
Scientists from Oxford University, in collaboration with the charity Save The Elephants, have used …
Time for a scientific code of ethics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2009
New meta-survey raises serious concerns about scientific misconduct
Biotech buoyant – but fragile
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2009
Despite worldwide economic turmoil, the global biotechnology industry delivered a solid financial p…
Astronomers comb the stars for planets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009
Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant …
Sandcastle secret used for new materials
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009
The secret of building a perfect sandcastle is in making sure the sand is neither too wet nor too d…
Detecting the undetectable
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009
How do you do about detecting something that has yet to be created? Well Scientists from the SLAC N…
Cheltenham Science Festival brings fun and learning
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2009
Once again, Cheltenham Science Festival brought together an eclectic group of scientists and scienc…
Nanocrystals key to cheap lasers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2009
Scientists think they may have opened the door to dramatically less expensive and more versatile la…
