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Whatever you do…don’t fall asleep

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jul 2015

With his top tips for scientific presenters covered, Dr Matthew Partridge turns his attention to a …

Poorly standardised tests, an obvious scam and chip fat...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jun 2015

Poorly standardised tests, an obvious scam and chip fat...

Science, straight from the horse’s mouth…and by horse, we mean scientist.

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jun 2015

Right…forgive us everyone, but we have to make this quick. Regular readers of Science Lite (…you po…

Turn your presentation into a presentAWESOME (...and do it without using horrendous puns)

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2015

I have been to a lot of scientific presentations. So many in fact, that I’m scared to try and work …

Stats on the ATLAS experiment

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2015

In Big, bold and complex… we find out just how hard it is to handle the big data from the ATLAS det…

We are living in the golden age of big data.

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2015

We are, I hardly need point out, living in a golden age of big data. It is completely changing the …

Here are some diamond stats

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 May 2015

A girl's best friend they may be - but now computer scientists want a bit of bling. The colour cent…

Musical mould makes miserabilists mirthful

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

As the occupants of the Science Lite desk segue gently into middle-age, there aren’t many occasions…

Unleash your chemical Gollum

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

My lab is currently undergoing a Health and Safety (H&S) upgrade

A crowdfunded device to'fix' colour-blindness?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

A crowdfunded device to'fix' colour-blindness?

Are we living through the seventh mass extinction event?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 May 2015

Mass extinctions…they are a bit like buses. You wait an epoch for one, then two come along at once.…

The unbearable lightness of shrimp

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2015

It is, we sometimes find; sitting here eating doughnuts and drinking sweet tea, easy to forget the …

The crazy dinosaur denialist movement

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2015

The crazy dinosaur denialist movement

Here we look at some stats on the visual cortex

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2015

Visual illusions trick our brain into perceiving things that do not correspond to reality. Here we …

Stop bleeding on my floor!

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2015

One of the parts of my job that I really enjoy is teaching the younger generation of scientists. Sh…

There's only one way to settle this

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2015

Debate. It is, in so many ways, the bedrock of science. Without dissemination and, more importantly…

The never ending dream of perpetual motion

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2015

When a moment’s idleness leads Russ Swan back to his childhood dream of perpetual motion he is surp…

Stats on mitochondria

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2015

Last month the house of Commons voted in favour of mitochondrial transfer, here we look at the stat…

Are you a science socialist?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2015

Social media and science is not for everyone. I am a prolific user of Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram an…