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Number Cruncher 2
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2013
Zoonisis is the transfer of infectious disease between species
A sweet mission
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2013
Rarely would we be so bold as to start this column with a quote from one of the most harrowing poem…
Every silver lining has a cloud
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Apr 2013
We have entered the golden age of scientific imaging, thinks Russ Swan, but it’s possible to have t…
Arguing about Antarctica
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2013
Hype about unclassified life found in sub-glacial Lake Vostok has led to an almighty squabble betw…
Scott R. White - The man who can heal materials
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2013
For many the work of Scott R. White seems like magic – he can make material heal itself when cracke…
A cosmologist's delight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2013
Cosmologists – you’ll no doubt be unsurprised to learn – are quite a hard bunch to please. The ques…
Number Cruncher
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Apr 2013
De-extinction is a new field of science resulting from the convergence of rapid advances in molecul…
Kind of blue...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Mar 2013
We come to you this month from on high, floating in a miasmic cloud of our own delight. Something r…
An acquired taste…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2013
Is musical preference a representation of self-expression or a function of education and exposure?!…
Shouting out about bad science in the media
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2013
Shouting at the TV – madness or necessity? Russ Swan loves a good shout whenever he spots a scienti…
The infiltration of rogue information
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2013
For me, the past month can be summed up in one word; infiltration. Horse meat has infiltrated our f…
Can you speak pharmacish?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2013
Modern medicine – one of humanities greatest on-going endeavours and saviour of countless lives. Bu…
How experiments really happen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Feb 2013
Scientists take to Twitter to reveal the hilarious truth behind their not so scientific methods...!…
Is space trade the first step to colonisation?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2013
The era of humanity’s presence in space is entering a new dawn. Until now we have looked to the hea…
A scientific New Year's resolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2013
The modern paradigm of ‘Big Data’ is all well and good – but does harvesting it leave room for insp…
Contemplating the benefits of a year in Space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2013
Was the year gone by everything you hoped it would be, or would you rather have spent the entirety …
A new energy production paradigm
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2013
The gulf between science and policy has never seemed greater than at the recent UN climate summit.!…
Human enhancement: will the benefits outweigh the costs?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Dec 2012
Colossal advances in human enhancement technologies could allow us to overcome the current limits o…
A little Application…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012
Never has the term ‘generation gap’ been quite so relevant to me as when my 3-year-old recently tri…
On a mission statement mission
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012
Marketing strategy seems increasingly important, yet Russ Swan finds himself frustrated with contri…