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What’s in a name?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2012
What’s in a name? Well - when it comes to scientific equipment- too many capitals and a penchant fo…
Debate not destroy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2012
Genetic modification has always been a contentious issue and it hit the headlines again last month …
We feel like Chicken to-flight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jun 2012
Blessed as we are on the Science lite desk with memories that would frankly embarrass a cerebrally …
Making public research accessible for all
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jun 2012
Rarely do I find myself harbouring admiration for a politician. Yet as David Willetts, minister for…
Vaccination without comparison
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 May 2012
As methods of disease prevention go – vaccination is without comparison. If successful heard immuni…
Science trade shows cause mayhem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 May 2012
Conferences and shows cause mayhem every six years: why – when the world is now such as small place…
Be-tatted risk junkies - or just fashionistas?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 May 2012
Tattoos as a marker for drinking – never one to let a quirky piece of research pass us by, the Scie…
Extremes become the norm - is this ‘global weirding’?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 May 2012
Is ‘global weirding’ a better explanation than climate change for our extreme weather?!--more--
Cold…
The power of convention
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2012
I’m going to start this issue with a question. What would you say is the cost of presenting results…
Will colouring fear cross the Atlantic?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have altered the way the caramel colour so distinctive of their drinks is produ…
To boldly dine where no one has dined before…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Apr 2012
It’s not often that the Science Lite desk is allowed beyond the confines of the office. And for goo…
Is the best science coverage in the tabloids?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2012
Science and the popular press have never been the best of friends – yet babbler-extraordinaire Russ…
Science and politics – a match made in heaven?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2012
A ship with giant towers pumping out white clouds to reflect the suns energy and hence act to allev…
Screening for CF
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2012
Eureka moments are scarce in the business of combating disease. Finding a ‘cure’ is all too rare an…
Celebrities versus science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Mar 2012
Celebrity endorsement is worth big bucks – it’s hard to watch TV without seeing a celebrity adverti…
Rules for TV scientists
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
Glamorous, sexy and brilliant – the TV scientist of today is an all-round hero, but as our babbler-…
A very strange tail indeed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Mar 2012
Fermat’s last theorem and the Poincaré conjecture – just two of the great mathematical problems tha…
All change
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012
If there is one thing that is consistent in this world, it is change. We may be fooled into a sense…
Silicone scam
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2012
Industrial-grade silicon caused a global public-health scare – whose fault is it?!--more--
The recen…
How many Fry are you?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2012
Ever wondered how many Fry’s you are? Or how big your house is in RAHs? Perhaps you think your appe…
