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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…
The colour of our galaxy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2012
We know a lot about our celestial neighbourhood. The galaxy in which our solar system resides has b…
Let’s go LEGO!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2012
From the earliest recoded traces of human culture, to copy something was considered the highest for…
Business or conservation?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jan 2012
Welcome one and all to this, your very own 2012! If we seem a little perky for what would ordinaril…
CFC replacements are greenhouse gases
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2012
The Montreal Protocol – which came into force in 1989 – banned or phased out CFCs and HCFCs because…
These meme streets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2012
In this month's column, Russ Swan takes on the dubious world of pseudo-scientific advertising and i…
Biobank excitement
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jan 2012
At the tail end of last year – a time that tends to be fairly quiet in terms of news worthy events …
Is there any point in IQ tests?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2011
Just what is the point of an IQ test – should we bother with them and are they accurate? !--more--…
A wrong turn in Vienna
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2011
In his new column, Russ Swan cuts a swathe through pomp to find out what's what in science and R&D.…
Brainy Rudolph
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Dec 2011
Tis the season to be jolly – for many a time to wind down from the year’s pressures, a time to rela…
The mysteries of the Moon
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2011
The moon, it seems to me, has been somewhat hidden in plain sight over the past 40 years. Since the…
Green-eyed monster
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Nov 2011
A tinge of professional jealousy is something that most have experienced at some stage, but in the …
Nobel assembly bend the rules
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2011
Nobel Prizes are traditionally not awarded posthumously, so what happens when one of the laureates …
