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Brexitium and the new science guidelines
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2019
With tongue rammed firmly in cheek Russ Swan casts the wryest of eyes over the omni-shambles of Bre…
Immigration post-Brexit: A scientific viewpoint
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2019
We have used many column inches in Lab News to talk about immigration, but rather than focusing on …
A word on Watson…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2019
That a scientist who uncovered the very structure of the code of life should be called out on racis…
Picking your way through deadlines
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Feb 2019
When is a deadline really a deadline? It is a tricky skill to learn, but learn it you must… otherwi…
Crop crisis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2019
Regardless of where you stand on the ethics of GM food, one thing is undeniable – a recent decision…
All aboard the space bus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2019
This year could finally see mankind scratch that space-bound itch and develop commercial, manned sp…
An author, philosopher and mathematician walk into a bar…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2019
Of all the unusual research we have covered over the years here on Science Lite – even we baulked a…
Here's to a scientific icon
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2019
The United Nations has designated 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table to celebrate…
Show us the money
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jan 2019
In what is a turbulent political time, CaSE has been working to support the cross-party desire to i…
The human effect on biodiversity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2019
The relationship between human activity and animal evolution is complex, but one thing we do know i…
Tough questions on ageing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2019
There comes a time – and this must happen to everyone – when you suddenly notice you are old…or, at…
Addressing the helium shortage
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2019
The helium shortage, party balloons and a revolutionary energy source – all the perfect ingredients…
Seasonal kissing and unfortunate penguins
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2019
So that’s it then. That was the season to be jolly, and now the thick grey coat of January threaten…
New Year tips for last minute presentations
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2019
Forget that resolution to start completing tasks well in advance – just get really good at doing th…
Reaching the Government’s R&D target
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2018
In the 2017 General Election campaign, the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all made…
A strange sequence of events
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Dec 2018
An enigmatic interstellar visitor, a grand failure of our space-based instruments and ever-gatherin…
Science is a very human endeavor
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2018
Scientists are a hard working bunch. Very hard working in fact – but even you need time to consider…
Clowning around with cynicism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2018
Cynicism is no stranger to us here on the Science light desk. Indeed it has become a close and valu…
Split the difference
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2018
Our brains can integrate left and right functions... so why can't our society do the same?
Influenza epidemic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2018
We are overdue an influenza epidemic and the hunt is on for a universal flue vaccine. Here we look …