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Here are some stats on the widest section of the Earth – the mantle…

December 16, 2015
Here are some stats on the widest section of the Earth - the mantle...

What’s clearly needed is an alternative to the Turing Test. Something less likely to become a laughing stock. Something like laughter, perhaps?

December 7, 2015
As the UK languishes in the supercomputing doldrums, Russ Swan asks: Are we having a laugh? If not – then maybe we should be…

Time to turn away from a very modern snake-oil…

December 3, 2015
A fine chap, Simon Singh. To my mind one of our most important science communicators. And now it seems that he and his excellent Good Thinking Society have forced the...

Is this the scariest image ever seen in science?

November 30, 2015
There is little point in crafting a natty introduction to this piece. We have, surely, already lost your attention to the truly horrific image on this page.

Here we look at some stats on photosynthesis…

November 18, 2015
Photosynthesis is just one classically understood biological process now thought of as quantum. Here we look at some stats…

Get ready to make a move

November 16, 2015
We’ve had a bit of re-jig in my labs and I’ve just sorted out a larger chemical lab space.

UK Science and a possible Brexit

November 15, 2015
To misquote Monty Python: what has the EU ever done for you?

Is science running out of names to call things?

November 9, 2015
Modern science faces a huge crisis says Russ Swan, one we have taken to calling the No Ability to Mine our Imagination and Name Greatly crisis, or ‘NAMING’ for short...

Paris Climate Conference – intervention or toothless?

November 4, 2015
It was always going to be a near impossible task. So simple to summarise yet so difficult to accomplish. We need to burn less fossil fuels.

Is that a bee-sting in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

October 26, 2015
Rarely is physical suffering a suitable topic for a whimsical column like Science Lite. The wry lens through which we attempt to view certain aspects of science can’t really be...

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