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Are hackers 1337?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2011

The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has been under great pressure to stop publishing secret diplo…

To test or not to test...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2011

Well, yet another round of New Year celebrations have come and gone. Yet, for us here at Laboratory…

Want to stick to your resolutions? Then remember, the brain is your worst enemy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2011

As the cloying fug of the festive period lazily begins to lift here on the Science lite desk, we ta…

Science and Harry Potter

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2010

The Harry Potter story is coming to an end – all seven books in the series have been published and …

Science is Vital!

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Nov 2010

The science budget has miraculously avoided drastic cuts in the recent Comprehensive Spending Revie…

Crop circle mystery solved

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2010

Most crop circles are manmade but ‘experts’ maintain that there is a distinct difference between ma…

Its all about the curl

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2010

Fluke or skilful – just how much did Roberto Carlos know about the science of ‘that’ goal in the 19…

Dreams are made of this

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Sep 2010

Sleep is such a natural part of life and yet it remains largely unexplained by science. Leila Satta…

Cloning – unsafe or just misunderstood?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2010

Cloning has always been a controversial issue and it’s been thrust into the limelight again recentl…

The bio-revolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Aug 2010

Geneticist and entrepreneur Dr Craig Venter hit the headlines in May 2010 after creating the first …

Bright ideas needed for Deepwater Horizon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Aug 2010

Three and a half months after the initial incident and oil is still leaking from BPs Deepwater Hori…

European investment

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jul 2010

Britain’s current competitive advantage in many sectors is at risk of being wiped out by our global…

Science set to suffer in post-election budgets

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2010

With the excitement of the election and the wait to see who’s would take power over, the real nitty…

Science and politics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2010

The dramatic election outcome has given the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats the chance to bring…

The key to success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2010

The key to future success in the pharmaceutical field might not be competition, but rather collabor…

Thanks to Iceland for the reality check

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 May 2010

As Iceland’s glacier-covered Eyjafjallajökull volcano continues to erupt and send plumes of ash ove…

Sharing science with the masses

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Apr 2010

Communicating science to the general public can be an uphill struggle – Leila Sattary investigates …

Ecofrauds and little green lies

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2010

Corporations are seeing “eco-friendliness” as a key selling point - green is indeed the new black …

Is there a consciousness confidence crisis?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2010

Trauma to the brain can result in patients being in a vegetative or minimally conscious state – awa…

Spinning out

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2010

The number of university spin-out companies has declined in the last year despite the government’s …