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Evidence week, or weak?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2018
The tail end of June saw Parliament’s first ‘Evidence Week’ - important, sure, but isn’t this head …
A big boat and some excessive capitals
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2018
Fuel giant Shell says this month will see the successful implementation of a project that they hope…
The great conference call checklist
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2018
To travel is to be free. It is to seek out like-minded scientists and share in their expertise… unl…
Consensus and conspiracy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2018
Time, I think, to talk about scientific consensus. It is a tricky beast – sometimes friend, sometim…
FOI request draws government on STEM immigration problems
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2018
An FOI request reveals the number of visa application refusals affecting STEM
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Democracy is dead, long live scientific sentimentocracy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2018
As political unrest spills across the globe, could science have the answer? Democracy is dead, long…
Is it time for science embrace coffee shop culture?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 May 2018
Cheap, sociable and a brilliant source of delicious beverages – Matthew Partridge ponders the possi…
Government must work hard to meet its research and development target
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 May 2018
When it comes to investment in science - Government don't have a plan to reach their own targets...…
The importance of green chemistry
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2018
Green chemistry has had an incredible impact over the last 20 years – here are some stats showing j…
Holiday season brings volcanic dreams
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 May 2018
For goodness sake - can't science and engineering give us a holiday in paradise without the Earth t…
Pound of flesh
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 May 2018
In light of the recent report from Goldman Sachs suggesting medical success is bad business, Russ S…
Tick-tock, tick-tock
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2018
How long, do you think, we will be doing science? It is now impossible to ignore the fact that the …
At the risk of being an idiot
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2018
Time for the Science lite desk to admit, as much as it might pain us, that we are idiots.
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Are scientists part of the plastic problem?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2018
Single-use consumables are rapidly becoming the norm in many laboratories – so how are we to addre…
An immigration system that supports science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2018
In recent months, UK employers have encountered issues with recruiting staff from outside of the EU…
Cliche and chemical weapons
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Apr 2018
As the sorry tale of a former Russian double agent and his daughter escalates, once again chemistry…
The sense of touch is incredibly important
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2018
Incredible work on the neurobiology of touch means we are on the road to rewiring the sense in para…
On the age-old question of polishing a turd...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Mar 2018
You can’t, the saying goes, polish a turd. Possibly not – but you can increase the market value of …
Has the 21st century really lived up to the hype?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2018
After all the technological promises, has the 21st century really lived up to the hype? Russ Swan i…
Sunny solar stats
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2018
Work on ‘hot electrons’ could make for incredibly efficient solar panel technology (p32) – here are…