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The banality of nomenclature continues
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2019
Is there anything, we must ask, more exciting than the science of the unimaginably large and the ne…

Put that snack down you fools!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2019
For all those that partake in the occasional lab-based munch, Dr Matthew Partridge has some gentle …

Quantum computer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2019
A universal quantum computer will solve computational problems too vast to solve on a classical com…

Particle accelerator
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2019
A new particle accelerator could bring unforeseen scientific discoveries that support emerging tech…

‘Big' doesn't quite cover it
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2019
We are, I hardly need point out, living in a golden age of big data. It is completely changing the …

How science can inspire policy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2019
The development of the Periodic Table is perhaps one of the finest feats of human ingenuity. In thi…

Oi you… leave that experiment alone!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2019
Don’t go and get all grabby if your experiment is not working says Matthew Partridge… just wait it …

Spending a penny to battle pandemics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2019
As the seat-belt light stubbornly refuses to go out, and the three G&Ts sunk even before the pilot …

Brexitium and the new science guidelines
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2019
With tongue rammed firmly in cheek Russ Swan casts the wryest of eyes over the omni-shambles of Bre…

Immigration post-Brexit: A scientific viewpoint
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2019
We have used many column inches in Lab News to talk about immigration, but rather than focusing on …

A word on Watson…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2019
That a scientist who uncovered the very structure of the code of life should be called out on racis…

Picking your way through deadlines
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Feb 2019
When is a deadline really a deadline? It is a tricky skill to learn, but learn it you must… otherwi…

Crop crisis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2019
Regardless of where you stand on the ethics of GM food, one thing is undeniable – a recent decision…

All aboard the space bus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2019
This year could finally see mankind scratch that space-bound itch and develop commercial, manned sp…

An author, philosopher and mathematician walk into a bar…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Feb 2019
Of all the unusual research we have covered over the years here on Science Lite – even we baulked a…

Here's to a scientific icon
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2019
The United Nations has designated 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table to celebrate…

Show us the money
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jan 2019
In what is a turbulent political time, CaSE has been working to support the cross-party desire to i…

The human effect on biodiversity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2019
The relationship between human activity and animal evolution is complex, but one thing we do know i…

Tough questions on ageing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2019
There comes a time – and this must happen to everyone – when you suddenly notice you are old…or, at…

Addressing the helium shortage
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2019
The helium shortage, party balloons and a revolutionary energy source – all the perfect ingredients…