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Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2011
Well, yet another round of New Year celebrations have come and gone. Yet, for us here at Laboratory…

Want to stick to your resolutions? Then remember, the brain is your worst enemy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2011
As the cloying fug of the festive period lazily begins to lift here on the Science lite desk, we ta…

Science and Harry Potter
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2010
The Harry Potter story is coming to an end – all seven books in the series have been published and …

Science is Vital!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Nov 2010
The science budget has miraculously avoided drastic cuts in the recent Comprehensive Spending Revie…

Crop circle mystery solved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2010
Most crop circles are manmade but ‘experts’ maintain that there is a distinct difference between ma…

Its all about the curl
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2010
Fluke or skilful – just how much did Roberto Carlos know about the science of ‘that’ goal in the 19…

Dreams are made of this
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Sep 2010
Sleep is such a natural part of life and yet it remains largely unexplained by science. Leila Satta…

Cloning – unsafe or just misunderstood?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2010
Cloning has always been a controversial issue and it’s been thrust into the limelight again recentl…

The bio-revolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Aug 2010
Geneticist and entrepreneur Dr Craig Venter hit the headlines in May 2010 after creating the first …

Bright ideas needed for Deepwater Horizon
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Aug 2010
Three and a half months after the initial incident and oil is still leaking from BPs Deepwater Hori…

European investment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jul 2010
Britain’s current competitive advantage in many sectors is at risk of being wiped out by our global…

Science set to suffer in post-election budgets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2010
With the excitement of the election and the wait to see who’s would take power over, the real nitty…

Science and politics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2010
The dramatic election outcome has given the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats the chance to bring…

The key to success
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2010
The key to future success in the pharmaceutical field might not be competition, but rather collabor…

Thanks to Iceland for the reality check
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 May 2010
As Iceland’s glacier-covered Eyjafjallajökull volcano continues to erupt and send plumes of ash ove…

Sharing science with the masses
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Apr 2010
Communicating science to the general public can be an uphill struggle – Leila Sattary investigates …

Ecofrauds and little green lies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2010
Corporations are seeing “eco-friendliness” as a key selling point - green is indeed the new black …

Is there a consciousness confidence crisis?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2010
Trauma to the brain can result in patients being in a vegetative or minimally conscious state – awa…

Spinning out
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2010
The number of university spin-out companies has declined in the last year despite the government’s …

Animal ethics - pets or research tools
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2010
Animal ethics is a difficult subject – how do we tally our affection for animals as pets with our c…