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There’s something you should know about dogs…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Oct 2014

There are times, dear reader, when the miasma of lethargy within which the Science Lite team ordina…

Number Cruncher 19

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2014

Stephen Hawking thinks we should think again about the nature of black holes. Here we take a look a…

We've got it all wrong

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2014

From outrage to a rising dawn of realisation – when it comes to the way we name ourselves and our p…

Taking a COSHH to the head

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

A few weeks ago I made a terrible mistake of taking the day off. Normally, a nice day off would be …

Respect in the face of desolation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2014

Tunneling through mountains, creating entire islands where once open ocean dominated, razing swathe…

Robot nightmares and the chocolate Doctor...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Sep 2014

Here at the Science Lite desk we've been inundated with research that is not only interesting and w…

The world will end in a flood of pointlessness

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2014

How will life on this planet end – a deadly pathogen, intense heat? Oh no, something much more poin…

How to play, and win, lab Risk

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Sep 2014

Let our shiny new columnist Dr Matthew Partridge take you by the hand and lead you through the nigg…

Number Cruncher 18

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Sep 2014

A skills crisis looms when it comes to the science technician workforce

NC September 2014

Combating chemical warfare

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Sep 2014

 A year ago the world stood open mouthed as reports came in on the use of chemical weapons in the S…

Chairman of the bored…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Aug 2014

As a species we like to think we are conquerors of our own niche; that we could, if it came to it, …

Stretching the truth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Aug 2014

Nothing is new in the world of TV science says Russ Swan ­– but with the advent of ‘docufiction’ ha…

Number Cruncher 17

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Aug 2014

As animal experiments in the UK rose to over 4m in 2013, we take a look at some of the facts and fi…

Data data everywhere...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Aug 2014

Let our shiny new columnist Dr Matthew Partridge take you by the hand and lead you through the nigg…

A hot button issue

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Aug 2014

It is, and I think will remain so for some time to come, the hottest of hot button issues. A subjec…

Number Cruncher 16

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014

The delicious world of flavour analysis is explored - so stick out your tongue and taste some stats

NC July 2014

Its time to fight back

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014

The colourful world of mesothermic dinosaurs inspires Russ to send out a rallying call to us all…fi…

Do you suffer BICYCLE FACE?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jul 2014

Don’t look like that…it’s a serious question. Because while it might sound like the best playground…

Synthetic biology; learning the language of nature

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2014

It was, I suppose, inevitable that we would reach this point. !--more--The fate of Synthetic Biolog…

Environmental Science - the perfect multidiscipline

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2014

As an endeavour, Environmental Science is surely the prime example of the term ‘multidisciplinary’.…