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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…
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…
