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It just wouldn’t be xmas without a new laser

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015

Time for a festive treat says Dr Matthew Partridge, but can he navigate the specs and options maze?

Here are some stats on the widest section of the Earth - the mantle...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2015

Here are some stats on the widest section of the Earth - the mantle...

What’s clearly needed is an alternative to the Turing Test. Something less likely to become a laughing stock. Something like laughter, perhaps?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2015

As the UK languishes in the supercomputing doldrums, Russ Swan asks: Are we having a laugh? If not …

Time to turn away from a very modern snake-oil...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2015

A fine chap, Simon Singh. To my mind one of our most important science communicators. And now it se…

Is this the scariest image ever seen in science?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Nov 2015

There is little point in crafting a natty introduction to this piece. We have, surely, already lost…

Here we look at some stats on photosynthesis...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2015

Photosynthesis is just one classically understood biological process now thought of as quantum. Her…

Get ready to make a move

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Nov 2015

We’ve had a bit of re-jig in my labs and I’ve just sorted out a larger chemical lab space.

UK Science and a possible Brexit

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2015

To misquote Monty Python: what has the EU ever done for you?

Is science running out of names to call things?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2015

Modern science faces a huge crisis says Russ Swan, one we have taken to calling the No Ability to M…

Paris Climate Conference - intervention or toothless?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2015

It was always going to be a near impossible task. So simple to summarise yet so difficult to accomp…

Is that a bee-sting in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2015

Rarely is physical suffering a suitable topic for a whimsical column like Science Lite. The wry len…

Spending Review uncertainty

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2015

On Saturday 9th October 2010, tourists bustled around Westminster, as they usually do, taking pictu…

Here we look at some stats on organic matter in space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2015

Here we look at some stats on organic matter in space

The serious side of science jokes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2015

If we really want to take science to the public, we’ll have to crack a smile says Dr Matthew Partri…

From Martian utensils to the man in the moon…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2015

From Martian utensils to the man in the moon…our imaginations will always get the better of us says…

Message in a bottle used for science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2015

Back in August, the Marine Biological Association of the UK announced a rather surprising world rec…

The answer is in the toilet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Sep 2015

As the seat-belt light stubbornly refuses to go out, and the three G&Ts sunk even before the pilot …

What is the future for the analytical laboratory? Time to extrapolate

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2015

Are we to trust the extrapolators of the world? And if so, what does this mean for the analytical l…

How to write a paper (part 2)

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Sep 2015

Panic, co-authors and funny cats – you can put it off no longer, time to knuckle down in part 2 of …