June 22, 2015

Right…forgive us everyone, but we have to make this quick. Regular readers of Science Lite (…you poor, poor souls) will be used to their acerbic take on all things scientific.

June 15, 2015

I have been to a lot of scientific presentations. So many in fact, that I’m scared to try and work out how many – I really don’t want to know...

June 4, 2015

In Big, bold and complex… we find out just how hard it is to handle the big data from the ATLAS detector at CERN. Here are some stats on the ATLAS experiment...

June 1, 2015

We are, I hardly need point out, living in a golden age of big data. It is completely changing the way most science is done; indeed some science can only...

May 29, 2015

A girl's best friend they may be - but now computer scientists want a bit of bling. The colour centres in that famous carbon lattice could well make the ideal...

May 28, 2015

As the occupants of the Science Lite desk segue gently into middle-age, there aren’t many occasions where we all look at each other and say “so, that gig last night…Aaaamazing...

May 28, 2015

My lab is currently undergoing a Health and Safety (H&S) upgrade

May 28, 2015

A crowdfunded device to'fix' colour-blindness?

May 28, 2015

Mass extinctions…they are a bit like buses. You wait an epoch for one, then two come along at once. Over the past 540 million years there have been five periods...

April 23, 2015

It is, we sometimes find; sitting here eating doughnuts and drinking sweet tea, easy to forget the innate cruelness of Nature. To us, the barbarism that 99.9% of species on...