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Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to preve…

New microscopy technique images living single cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Sep 2014

A new microscopy technology has allowed scientists to paint a target in a living subject and watch …

Plumage no sacrifice for peacocks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Sep 2014

Peacocks are known for their long iridescent feathers which they use to attract a mate, but their d…

Meteorite points to life on Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2014

A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant m…

AMS show modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Sep 2014

Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been reve…

Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2014

Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint sig…

Cheetah-bot’s successful test run

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2014

Cheetahs are the fasted land mammal on Earth, capable of going zero to 60 miles per hour in a matte…

Extremophile key to nuclear waste disposal

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2014

A subterranean bacterium could solve the problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste say researchers…

Splitting water based on nuclear spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2014

Separation of water based on the nuclear spin of individual molecules has been made possible thanks…

Freshwater springs likely played role in early human evolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Sep 2014

The ability to move and seek out new sources of groundwater in dry periods may have been pivotal to…

New threat to ozone layer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2014

The Antarctic ozone hole is beginning to show signs of recovery, but a new threat is lurking sugges…

Autism therapy could eliminate symptoms

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Sep 2014

A new therapy aimed at treating infants as young as 6-months-old who exhibit signs of autism has sh…

Alice returns results

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Sep 2014

Alice, the miniature ultra-violet imaging spectrograph aboard the Rosetta orbiter, has successfully…

Maglev to allow manufacture using soft materials

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2014

A system which allows objects to float in suspension could aid manufacturing with fragile materials…

Winter weather set to get more erratic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2014

Extreme variations in pressure over the North Atlantic are responsible for our increasingly erratic…

Why do HIV patients develop dementia?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2014

Life expectancy for patients with HIV has increased thanks to combination anti-retroviral therapy, …

New heart drug beats current gold standard

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2014

Clinical trials of a new drug to treat heart failure were brought to an early close after results s…

Biomimetic sheets offer improved chemical functionality

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2014

A two-dimensional biomimetic material with customisable properties able to self-assemble at an oil-…

Protein synthesis offer clues to memory loss

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Sep 2014

A new method of identifying proteins as they are created in the body could offer insight into why l…

Engineered E. coli turns fatty acids into propane

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Sep 2014

By engineering a protein found in the gut, researchers have generated renewable propane and taken a…