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The lab resolution countdown

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2016

Happy New Year and all that jazz, but don’t waste time setting unrealistic resolutions says Matthew…

Here are some stats about the human microbiome

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2016

Ever wondered about the human microbiome....here's some information you may not know...

Time to get serious about protecting science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2016

As another year slips by, Russ Swan says it is high time to drop the pretence and get serious about…

Asteroid mining...the final frontier?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jan 2016

It’s all gone a bit ‘inner-space’ in this issue. A growing body of evidence suggests the human micr…

The strange enigma of unusual fallings

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Dec 2015

Tadpoles, blackbirds, apples, sprat and meat. What, you may well ask, is this rather absurd list?

It just wouldn’t be xmas without a new laser

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015

Time for a festive treat says Dr Matthew Partridge, but can he navigate the specs and options maze?

Here are some stats on the widest section of the Earth - the mantle...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2015

Here are some stats on the widest section of the Earth - the mantle...

What’s clearly needed is an alternative to the Turing Test. Something less likely to become a laughing stock. Something like laughter, perhaps?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2015

As the UK languishes in the supercomputing doldrums, Russ Swan asks: Are we having a laugh? If not …

Time to turn away from a very modern snake-oil...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2015

A fine chap, Simon Singh. To my mind one of our most important science communicators. And now it se…

Is this the scariest image ever seen in science?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Nov 2015

There is little point in crafting a natty introduction to this piece. We have, surely, already lost…

Here we look at some stats on photosynthesis...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2015

Photosynthesis is just one classically understood biological process now thought of as quantum. Her…

Get ready to make a move

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Nov 2015

We’ve had a bit of re-jig in my labs and I’ve just sorted out a larger chemical lab space.

UK Science and a possible Brexit

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2015

To misquote Monty Python: what has the EU ever done for you?

Is science running out of names to call things?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2015

Modern science faces a huge crisis says Russ Swan, one we have taken to calling the No Ability to M…

Paris Climate Conference - intervention or toothless?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2015

It was always going to be a near impossible task. So simple to summarise yet so difficult to accomp…

Is that a bee-sting in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2015

Rarely is physical suffering a suitable topic for a whimsical column like Science Lite. The wry len…

Spending Review uncertainty

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2015

On Saturday 9th October 2010, tourists bustled around Westminster, as they usually do, taking pictu…

Here we look at some stats on organic matter in space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2015

Here we look at some stats on organic matter in space

The serious side of science jokes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2015

If we really want to take science to the public, we’ll have to crack a smile says Dr Matthew Partri…

From Martian utensils to the man in the moon…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2015

From Martian utensils to the man in the moon…our imaginations will always get the better of us says…