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Time to clear the decks and face 2017

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2017

Has 2016 sapped your optimism? Fear not – Dr Matthew Partridge has the solution, sadly it does invo…

Medical Marijuana

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2017

Information on medical marijuana, from its main medical compounds to how many people have access to…

Science communication and the figure of speech

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2017

I’ve been thinking about words. Ideal you might imagine, given my role on the magazine. But specifi…

Let the blue sky ease your hangover

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2017

Well hello there! Welcome to 2017… we trust the hangovers are beginning to wane? No? Fear not – let…

Did 2016 end well for science?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Dec 2016

The Autumn Statement has passed, with science funding promised by the Chancellor. But what's next? …

Stereotypes - the good, the bad and the ugly

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2016

Russ Swan has done the maths on scientific-stereotypes so we don’t have to…which, it turns out, is …

Will Santa need to visit other planets?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2016

As we creep closer to holiday season and the traditional good cheer ramps up – what better time to …

All I want for Christmas is...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2016

Offensive solvents, weaponised pippette racks and lab siri – Santa has his work cut out as Dr Matth…

Genetic editing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2016

CRISPR/Cas9 has the potential to change genetic editing as we know it. But how much do you know abo…

Are scientists now considered 'elites'?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2016

Well, it has been quite a year. And while perhaps this isn’t the place to wring the political detri…

Do you have all the stuff?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2016

Work them in the right way, and lab trade shows can be as good as a day at the Science Museum says …

Words, glorious words

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Nov 2016

With interchangeable meanings and ever shifting definitions – maintaining a comprehensive scientifi…

(Not so) slippery when wet

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2016

The gang try to grasp why our fingers wrinkle...

Artificial health

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Nov 2016

Examples of how AI is involved in scientific research

Asgardia - groundbreaking or simply an elaborate ruse?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2016

I simply don’t know what to make if it. A new notion of the nation state, a scientific utopia, a vi…

How do we use evidence better in society today?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Oct 2016

Dr Anusha Panjwani looks at the increasing need to better convey evidence based research.

What’s in a label?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2016

Time to stick it to The Man and play both fast and loose with H&S in the lab? Bad idea says Dr Matt…

How will UK science be protected during Brexit?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Oct 2016

Dr Anusha Panjwani writes on the challenges facing UK science in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Time to abolish embargoes?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2016

Time to tell the world about your work…but not just yet. Russ Swan on the unnecessary nuisance of s…

Man and machine or man vs machine?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2016

Can artificial intelligence carry out scientific research?