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How do we combat the anti-vaxxers?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 May 2014
A spike in the number of measles cases in America has been blamed on the anti-vaccination movement,…
Number Cruncher 14
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2014
Scientific publishing is changing - here we look at some facts and figures
Asteroid impact a greater threat than we thought
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 May 2014
On the 6th of August 1945 the World’s eyes were violently opened to the reality of nuclear war. As …
Health & Safety gone MAD
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 May 2014
In the first LN Companion Series of 2014, we take a look at some of the Health & Safety issues faci…
Time at the bar please…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Apr 2014
A little question for you to kick off this month’s Science Lite. What is your favourite bit of lab …
Dubious scientific formulae
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Apr 2014
Russ Swan grows weary of the insatiable appetite of the gullible media for pseudoscience wrapped up…
Number Cruncher 13
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2014
This month we look at how soap bubbles can be used to predicts circling winds in tropical cyclones;…
Science is boring? Far from it
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2014
Is science boring? Last month, I became involved in a discussion on Twitter as to whether that stat…
Defining a nation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2014
How to define a nation? Its military clout? Its territories and geopolitical machinations? Its econ…
Are we living up to 2014?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2014
2014 – it’s well and truly underway. It is the here and now – the present. But don’t you think it s…
Number Cruncher 12
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2014
Algal biofuels - hailed by some as a genuine alternative to fossil fuels, and by others as a red he…
A very social affair
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2014
As a decade passes since the world became aware of Facebook, and Twitter continues its onslaught on…
Tackling antimicrobial resistance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2014
It’s 1945, and Alexander Fleming is giving his Nobel Lecture. He tells the story of the accidental …
Paranoid over androids
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Feb 2014
Ok, we have something important to share – and we are afraid to say that it absolutely justifies co…
In too deep?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Feb 2014
Everyone loves a conspiracy theory to mock, but as he begins to find himself convinced, has Russ Sw…
The dilemma of the talking head
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2014
With great power comes great responsibility – but is it down to the latest wave of high profile sci…
Number cruncher 11
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2014
Next generation sequencing has revolutionised our understanding of proteomics and genomics
Not quite what you expected
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2014
Have you ever felt a bit ripped off? Like you haven’t quite got what was advertised?!--more-- Then…
A lupine conundrum
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2014
Hello dearest inside back cover readers – and a happy new year to you. By way of a post-festive per…
The Science of Prediction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jan 2014
Bemused by a Swiss attempt to analyse a joke, Russ Swan finds real humour in a dubious attempt at t…
