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Luminous mice help track disease path

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2009

It may seem like a case of scientists with too much time on their hands – but researchers have dust…

Cells' counting keeps disease away

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2009

Researchers think they have provided insight into an age-old mystery in cell biology - can cells co…

Worms in space!

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2009

Worms should be checking in for a flight onboard the Space Shuttle later this year - to help resear…

Motown right about love say mathematicians

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2009

If Valentines day this month doesn’t quite meet your romantic expectations fear not - scientists ha…

Plants off the hook

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2009

Far from being environmental saviours – work in 2006 suggested plants may actually contribute to gr…

Hate the dentist? Just have a laugh and relax

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2009

Nitrous oxide - laughing gas - has well known sedation effects but researchers from UCL have discov…

Getting rice to soak up more rays

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2009

Scientists at Oxford University have set out to make rice more efficient by actually changing the w…

Catching Z's boosts immune system

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2009

Animal species that sleep for longer do not suffer as much from parasite infestation and have a gre…

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to win £5,000

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2009

Oxoid, a world leader in microbiology, reminds you that entries for 2008/2009 Oxoid Infection Contr…

Is our fatty future in our genes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2009

The average male population is heading for obesity – do we know why, and can we do anything to stop…

Human love of novelty drove animal colour

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2009

Humans have actively changed the coats of domestic animals by cherry-picking rare genetic mutations…

The age of personal electricity monitors

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jan 2009

Intelligent sustainable energy - a spin-out from Oxford University, has been set up with funding fr…

Government funding for foot and mouth detection

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2009

Southampton University spin-out Stratophase is to take the lead in a consortium formed to develop a…

A giant leap for geology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

Physicists have cracked the mystery behind the strange and uncannily well-ordered hexagonal columns…

Xtreme scientists conquer Everest to find lowest blood oxygen levels

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

A team of mountaineering doctors from UCL have reported the lowest human blood oxygen levels ever r…

A map like no other

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

Astronomers from UK universities are to take on the mammoth challenge of mapping the distribution o…

Cheating ants ousted by chemistry

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2009

The want to reproduce is the most natural instinct in the animal world except - it would seem - for…

Alzheimer’s research suggests recovery possible

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2009

Researchers have discovered that the brain\'s circuitry survives longer than previously thought in …

Mystery of Mars is a washout

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2009

Scientists have proposed that some of the least understood features on Mars were formed when large …

Bug suicide could reveal new antibiotic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2009

Scientists have come to understand the mysterious behaviour of kamikaze bacteria, and they say it c…