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Sports doping
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2016
Find out facts about the history of doping in sports.
Is piracy of journals wrong?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2016
Piracy and the modern world of academic publishing – Russ Swan gets into the moral maze of copyrigh…
Has science cracked the PR formula?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2016
When did it become the norm, I have been wondering, to treat a scientific announcement like a glitt…
Would you stand up for British science?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Feb 2016
Thirty years ago, a full page advert paid for by 1500 scientists appeared in The Times calling on t…
Dropping like flies...but what species of fly, named after who?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Feb 2016
First Lemmy, then Bowie and then Glen Frey. January was a tough month for rock iconography.
The collaboration game!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2016
Efficious campus security, crazy numbering schemes and disappointing meetings - the obstacles are m…
Is science using images to cheat?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2016
As the power of the image continues to grow in science, Russ Swan asks…are we abusing this power?
Will ageing only be a bane to the poor?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2016
There comes a time – and this must happen to everyone – when you suddenly notice you are old…or, at…
Did George Osborne give science a happy New Year?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2016
At first glance, there appeared to be a lot of gifts under the Spending Review Christmas tree last …
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…
