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A 'good book' to believe in...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Sep 2015

Over the last few months on my way to the office I have been regularly told that I am going to hell…

Cutesy language of modern space discovery...is it needed?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Aug 2015

Cutesy language of modern space discovery...is it needed?

Should Tom have defecated near Jerry?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Aug 2015

A small brown mouse peers tentatively from its nest. As it emerges – confidence growing – a creak i…

How to write a paper (part 1)

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2015

Hangers-on, the evil axis and ‘Chekhov’s gun’ – here Dr Matthew Partridge gives us some vital tips …

Cut out the media middle-man

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Aug 2015

The lament of scientists to be given fair air time and column inches in the popular media is a long…

The pseudoscience of nutrition and the great chocolate hoax

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2015

The pseudoscience of nutrition and the great chocolate hoax

Stop horsing around

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jul 2015

‘Stop horsing around’…that was definitely it; that was what we were going to call this instalment o…

Whatever you do…don’t fall asleep

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jul 2015

With his top tips for scientific presenters covered, Dr Matthew Partridge turns his attention to a …

Poorly standardised tests, an obvious scam and chip fat...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jun 2015

Poorly standardised tests, an obvious scam and chip fat...

Science, straight from the horse’s mouth…and by horse, we mean scientist.

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jun 2015

Right…forgive us everyone, but we have to make this quick. Regular readers of Science Lite (…you po…

Turn your presentation into a presentAWESOME (...and do it without using horrendous puns)

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2015

I have been to a lot of scientific presentations. So many in fact, that I’m scared to try and work …

Stats on the ATLAS experiment

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2015

In Big, bold and complex… we find out just how hard it is to handle the big data from the ATLAS det…

We are living in the golden age of big data.

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2015

We are, I hardly need point out, living in a golden age of big data. It is completely changing the …

Here are some diamond stats

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 May 2015

A girl's best friend they may be - but now computer scientists want a bit of bling. The colour cent…

Musical mould makes miserabilists mirthful

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

As the occupants of the Science Lite desk segue gently into middle-age, there aren’t many occasions…

Unleash your chemical Gollum

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

My lab is currently undergoing a Health and Safety (H&S) upgrade

A crowdfunded device to'fix' colour-blindness?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

A crowdfunded device to'fix' colour-blindness?

Are we living through the seventh mass extinction event?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

Mass extinctions…they are a bit like buses. You wait an epoch for one, then two come along at once.…