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Did 2016 end well for science?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Dec 2016
The Autumn Statement has passed, with science funding promised by the Chancellor. But what's next? …

Stereotypes - the good, the bad and the ugly
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2016
Russ Swan has done the maths on scientific-stereotypes so we don’t have to…which, it turns out, is …

Will Santa need to visit other planets?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2016
As we creep closer to holiday season and the traditional good cheer ramps up – what better time to …

All I want for Christmas is...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2016
Offensive solvents, weaponised pippette racks and lab siri – Santa has his work cut out as Dr Matth…

Genetic editing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2016
CRISPR/Cas9 has the potential to change genetic editing as we know it. But how much do you know abo…

Are scientists now considered 'elites'?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2016
Well, it has been quite a year. And while perhaps this isn’t the place to wring the political detri…

Do you have all the stuff?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2016
Work them in the right way, and lab trade shows can be as good as a day at the Science Museum says …

Words, glorious words
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Nov 2016
With interchangeable meanings and ever shifting definitions – maintaining a comprehensive scientifi…

(Not so) slippery when wet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2016
The gang try to grasp why our fingers wrinkle...

Artificial health
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Nov 2016
Examples of how AI is involved in scientific research

Asgardia - groundbreaking or simply an elaborate ruse?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2016
I simply don’t know what to make if it. A new notion of the nation state, a scientific utopia, a vi…

How do we use evidence better in society today?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Oct 2016
Dr Anusha Panjwani looks at the increasing need to better convey evidence based research.

What’s in a label?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2016
Time to stick it to The Man and play both fast and loose with H&S in the lab? Bad idea says Dr Matt…

How will UK science be protected during Brexit?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Oct 2016
Dr Anusha Panjwani writes on the challenges facing UK science in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Time to abolish embargoes?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2016
Time to tell the world about your work…but not just yet. Russ Swan on the unnecessary nuisance of s…

Man and machine or man vs machine?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2016
Can artificial intelligence carry out scientific research?

Rat sperm and rocks with personalities that dazzle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2016
It was most definitely party time here on the Science Lite desk a few weeks back – for it was the m…

Time for very careful scrutiny of the Higher Education & Research Bill
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2016
Over the summer, CaSE convened a workshop on the Higher Education & Research Bill attended by aroun…

Good hair day for mathematicians
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Sep 2016
Fermat’s last theorem and the Poincaré conjecture – just two of the great mathematical problems tha…