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House of Lords calls for urgent forensics revamp

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2019

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has called for urgent reforms to forensic scien…

Welcome steps and missed opportunities

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2019

Set against the backdrop of ongoing political uncertainty, the Chancellor’s Spring Statement saw we…

An edit for good?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2019

Gene editing could allow incredible crop improvements, with the potential to reduce the harmful imp…

How science can inspire policy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2019

The development of the Periodic Table is perhaps one of the finest feats of human ingenuity. In thi…

Future Circular Collider: Is it worth it?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2019

Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

Future Circular Collider: What is it?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2019

Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

The bigger the better

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2019

A UK-wide prohibition on the use of plastic microbeads in some cosmetic and personal care products …

Immigration post-Brexit: A scientific viewpoint

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2019

We have used many column inches in Lab News to talk about immigration, but rather than focusing on …

The era of monetised DNA?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2019

The next generation of genomics platforms will usher in a personalised healthcare revolution, but w…

National Technician Development Centre turns one

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2019

The National Technician Development Centre is celebrating a year since its official opening.

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Fast food

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2019

Speed breeding isn’t a new concept but it could be crucial to ramping up food production in Europe …

75 new doctoral training centres

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2019

The government has announced 75 new centres for doctoral training in key scientific areas of the fu…

Applications that make the cut

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2019

There’s been a lot of news and hype about CRISPR, but what can it actually do?  Dr Bahri Karacay ta…

Taking the wider view

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2019

The ‘quality’ of a research paper is a tricky thing to quantify – journal impact factors and citati…

Foundation for stable science with SI redefinition

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2018

Measurement scientists from around the world have voted to redefine the International System of Mea…

Using science to change our world

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2018

As the Royal Institution sets it sights on expanding the public understanding of science, we hear f…

EPSRC announces over £5m for equality and diversity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2018

Eleven projects have been launched at universities across the UK to improve equality, diversity and…

Changes to non-EU visa regulations good for science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2018

The campaign for science and engineering has welcomed the announcement that doctors and nurses will…

New centre takes on shortage of technical skills

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2018

A new National centre aiming to tackle the shortage of specialist technical skills in the Higher Ed…

Henry Royce Institute promises collaborative approach

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2018

Construction work has begun on the Manchester hub for the Henry Royce National Institute, the natio…