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Not quite what you expected
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Feb 2014
Have you ever felt a bit ripped off? Like you haven’t quite got what was advertised?!--more-- Then…
A lupine conundrum
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2014
Hello dearest inside back cover readers – and a happy new year to you. By way of a post-festive per…
The Science of Prediction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jan 2014
Bemused by a Swiss attempt to analyse a joke, Russ Swan finds real humour in a dubious attempt at t…
Fall - and return - from grace
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2014
A long time ago, in a laboratory not far from here, a scientist sat in his lab pondering his latest…
Number Cruncher 10
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2014
The idea that cells can handle their proteome in a way similar to the way a business handles its as…
Biological villain turns nanotech poster boy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2014
In this modern age of research where ‘interdisciplinary’ and ‘translational’ are the watchwords of …
The elephant in the room
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Dec 2013
Laboratory News has offered many a scientific take on the festive season over the years. !--more--T…
The law of unintended consequences
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Dec 2013
Russ Swan finds the unpredictable outcomes of genetic sequencing technology, well, rather predictab…
A year in science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2013
With Britain being touted as the ‘best place in the world to do science’, what part have British sc…
Number cruncher 9
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Dec 2013
With the opening of MERIL, we take a look at the statistics of some of the big science facilities i…
Thinking about thought experiments
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2013
Niels Bohr, a quantum physics godfather if ever there was one, once said: "Anyone who is not shocke…
A closer look at nanotechnology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2013
Definitions of nanotechnology have been in an almost constant state of flux since the ‘birth’ of th…
Duelling dinosaurs fail to sell
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Nov 2013
A pair of duelling dinosaurs which have the potential to answer a long-standing scientific question…
An interplanetary diamond-rush
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2013
Roll-up, roll-up! For we have an offer you can’t possibly refuse. A business venture, to end all bu…
The science of speed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2013
The science of speed is fraught with frustration for Russ Swan, but a chance meeting leads to a rat…
Is private investment robbing science of important finds?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2013
An incredibly well-preserved fossil of two duelling dinosaurs is set to go under the hammer this mo…
Fracking furore
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2013
A few weeks ago, after several months of dedicated encampment, anti-fracking protesters dismantled …
Number Cruncher 8
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2013
Volcanoes can be a cruel and destructive force as the statistics behind these natural phenomenon te…
Laughing and thinking
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2013
Party hats were donned, plastic beakers full of wine were quaffed and hearty cheers were bellowed. …
Voyager's unlikely stowaway
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Oct 2013
Clean room etiquette, Voyager 1 and an unlikely stowaway – how a human fingerprint ended up leavin…
