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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…

Fracking furore

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2013

A few weeks ago, after several months of dedicated encampment, anti-fracking protesters dismantled …

Number Cruncher 8

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2013

Volcanoes can be a cruel and destructive force as the statistics behind these natural phenomenon te…

Laughing and thinking

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2013

Party hats were donned, plastic beakers full of wine were quaffed and hearty cheers were bellowed. …

Voyager's unlikely stowaway

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Oct 2013

Clean room etiquette, Voyager 1 and an unlikely stowaway ­– how a human fingerprint ended up leavin…

Do we need to rethink our relationship with bacteria?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Oct 2013

Is our need for clean making our children – and us – sick?!--more--

In our increasingly sanitary wor…

Epigenetics reaches fever pitch

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2013

The excitement around epigenetics has mounted almost to fever pitch levels in the last five years.!…

Number Cruncher 7

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2013

NASA have reported that Voyager 1 left the heliosphere - a 'bubble' of plasma that streams outward …

Riddle me this…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Sep 2013

As you have no doubt seen – we are giving away the rather marvellous Art of Science game. Chock ful…

Humans are dominant cause of climate change

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Sep 2013

As the IPCC delivered their fifth assessment report on climate change they were very keen to stress…

A case of mistaken identity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2013

An adorable creature was assumed to be something else for more than 100 years, but what is the sign…

Predicting the future is a risky business

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2013

No fusion power, no fuel cells…not even reliable light bulbs – have we really got the 21st century …

Marvellous microbes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Sep 2013

Readers of our print edition will have recieved  the second of the LN Companion Series of supplemen…