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'Twas the Night Before Christmas – in the Laboratology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Dec 2014

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the laboratory Not an experiment was stirring, n…

How a comet can inspire a generation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2014

In the middle of November – I hardly need remind you – the human race made a historic, if rather bu…

Super spectroscopy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Nov 2014

In the final LN Companion Series of 2014, we take a look at an analytical method that has enlighten…

What are you saying, exactly?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2014

Hidden messages. Could there be anything more innately conspiratorial? Books, films – entire cults …

Need a new holiday destination? Let us help

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Nov 2014

Bored of the same old holiday destinations? Want to try something a bit different? Let Russ Swan ta…

Number Cruncher 20

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Nov 2014

New research suggests the ozone hole is shrinking; here are some atmospherostats

NC November 2014

Reverting to type...prototype

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Nov 2014

Prototypes are things of beauty. I've made a few over the years and each one is a fantastic bodge o…

The 'omics' revolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Nov 2014

The ‘omics’ revolution that has taken place in biology over the last few decades promises to yield …

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…