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A green invasion

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Jul 2013

We come to you this month with some alarming news. If you have read Russ Swan’s babble on p17 you w…

A worthwhile doomsday

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2013

Never quite found a doomsday scenario to suit your scientific tastes? Look no further than robotic …

An awkward solution for an awkward problem

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2013

MIT researchers have developed software to analyse and help improve people’s social skills, but cou…

Number Cruncher 4

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2013

Water research has been beset with controversy - but here are some things that we do know...

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Literary explorations of laboratory life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2013

Talk about art imitating life – see how the rise of ‘Lab Lit’ has got Russ Swan in a literary lathe…

What’s in a name?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jun 2013

Not content with Academy Awards? Now you only really know you’ve ‘made it’ when a new species bears…

The age of organic supercomputing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2013

“Big data” has well and truly entered into the lexicon of science. Large data sets are vital – defi…

Number Cruncher 3

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2013

Exoplanets are planets the reside outside of our solar system

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Paying homage to inspiration

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 May 2013

The great thing about scientists – well, one of the many great things about scientists – is that, a…

Nothing more than this year's best guess

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2013

 Don’t panic, but everything you think you know could be wrong. Sit down and let Russ Swan hold you…

Giving a soapbox to pseudoscience

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2013

 The largest measles outbreak for a decade is posing a serious danger to many, so why is the media …

Not abiding by the constraints of species

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2013

On the cover this month you’ll find staring back at you a killer of truly grotesque stature. Respon…

Number Cruncher 2

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2013

Zoonisis is the transfer of infectious disease between species

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A sweet mission

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2013

Rarely would we be so bold as to start this column with a quote from one of the most harrowing poem…

Every silver lining has a cloud

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Apr 2013

We have entered the golden age of scientific imaging, thinks Russ Swan, but it’s possible to have t…

Arguing about Antarctica

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2013

 Hype about unclassified life found in sub-glacial Lake Vostok has led to an almighty squabble betw…

Scott R. White - The man who can heal materials

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2013

For many the work of Scott R. White seems like magic – he can make material heal itself when cracke…

A cosmologist's delight

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2013

Cosmologists – you’ll no doubt be unsurprised to learn – are quite a hard bunch to please. The ques…

Number Cruncher

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Apr 2013

De-extinction is a new field of science resulting from the convergence of rapid advances in molecul…

Kind of blue...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Mar 2013

We come to you this month from on high, floating in a miasmic cloud of our own delight. Something r…