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A worthwhile doomsday
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2013
Never quite found a doomsday scenario to suit your scientific tastes? Look no further than robotic …
An awkward solution for an awkward problem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2013
MIT researchers have developed software to analyse and help improve people’s social skills, but cou…
Number Cruncher 4
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2013
Water research has been beset with controversy - but here are some things that we do know...
Literary explorations of laboratory life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2013
Talk about art imitating life – see how the rise of ‘Lab Lit’ has got Russ Swan in a literary lathe…
What’s in a name?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2013
Not content with Academy Awards? Now you only really know you’ve ‘made it’ when a new species bears…
The age of organic supercomputing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2013
“Big data” has well and truly entered into the lexicon of science. Large data sets are vital – defi…
Number Cruncher 3
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2013
Exoplanets are planets the reside outside of our solar system
Paying homage to inspiration
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 May 2013
The great thing about scientists – well, one of the many great things about scientists – is that, a…
Nothing more than this year's best guess
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2013
Don’t panic, but everything you think you know could be wrong. Sit down and let Russ Swan hold you…
Giving a soapbox to pseudoscience
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2013
The largest measles outbreak for a decade is posing a serious danger to many, so why is the media …
Not abiding by the constraints of species
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2013
On the cover this month you’ll find staring back at you a killer of truly grotesque stature. Respon…
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?!…
