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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

NC February 2014

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…

Fall - and return - from grace

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2014

A long time ago, in a laboratory not far from here, a scientist sat in his lab pondering his latest…

Number Cruncher 10

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2014

The idea that cells can handle their proteome in a way similar to the way a business handles its as…

Biological villain turns nanotech poster boy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2014

In this modern age of research where ‘interdisciplinary’ and ‘translational’ are the watchwords of …

The elephant in the room

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Dec 2013

Laboratory News has offered many a scientific take on the festive season over the years. !--more--T…

The law of unintended consequences

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Dec 2013

Russ Swan finds the unpredictable outcomes of genetic sequencing technology, well, rather predictab…

A year in science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2013

With Britain being touted as the ‘best place in the world to do science’, what part have British sc…

Number cruncher 9

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2013

With the opening of MERIL, we take a look at the statistics of some of the big science facilities i…

Thinking about thought experiments

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2013

Niels Bohr, a quantum physics godfather if ever there was one, once said: "Anyone who is not shocke…

A closer look at nanotechnology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2013

Definitions of nanotechnology have been in an almost constant state of flux since the ‘birth’ of th…

Duelling dinosaurs fail to sell

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Nov 2013

A pair of duelling dinosaurs which have the potential to answer a long-standing scientific question…

An interplanetary diamond-rush

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2013

Roll-up, roll-up! For we have an offer you can’t possibly refuse. A business venture, to end all bu…

The science of speed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2013

The science of speed is fraught with frustration for Russ Swan, but a chance meeting leads to a rat…

Is private investment robbing science of important finds?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2013

An incredibly well-preserved fossil of two duelling dinosaurs is set to go under the hammer this mo…