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Number Cruncher 2

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2013

Zoonisis is the transfer of infectious disease between species

NC May 2013

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…

An acquired taste…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Mar 2013

Is musical preference a representation of self-expression or a function of education and exposure?!…

Shouting out about bad science in the media

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2013

Shouting at the TV – madness or necessity? Russ Swan loves a good shout whenever he spots a scienti…

The infiltration of rogue information

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2013

For me, the past month can be summed up in one word; infiltration. Horse meat has infiltrated our f…

Can you speak pharmacish?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2013

Modern medicine – one of humanities greatest on-going endeavours and saviour of countless lives. Bu…

How experiments really happen

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Feb 2013

Scientists take to Twitter to reveal the hilarious truth behind their not so scientific methods...!…

Is space trade the first step to colonisation?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2013

The era of humanity’s presence in space is entering a new dawn. Until now we have looked to the hea…

A scientific New Year's resolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2013

The modern paradigm of ‘Big Data’ is all well and good – but does harvesting it leave room for insp…

Contemplating the benefits of a year in Space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2013

Was the year gone by everything you hoped it would be, or would you rather have spent the entirety …

A new energy production paradigm

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2013

The gulf between science and policy has never seemed greater than at the recent UN climate summit.!…

Human enhancement: will the benefits outweigh the costs?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Dec 2012

Colossal advances in human enhancement technologies could allow us to overcome the current limits o…

A little Application…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012

Never has the term ‘generation gap’ been quite so relevant to me as when my 3-year-old recently tri…

On a mission statement mission

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012

Marketing strategy seems increasingly important, yet Russ Swan finds himself frustrated with contri…