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Crustaceans Remake Finding Nemo (sorta)

16/09/2012

With sea ice in the Arctic melting to record lows in summer months, marine animals living there face dramatic changes to their environment. Yet some crustaceans, previously thought to spend their...

Emma Sywyj: China [Photography]

16/09/2012

Sywyj's China series is as colourful and eclectic as one would expect of the location, but dispenses with the more obvious depictions of new-urban environments, ancient aesthetics and displaced...

Extreme Winters: Advance Warning

15/09/2012

Severe UK winters, like the 'big freeze' of 2009/10, can now be better forecast months in advance using the Met Office's latest model. A new study, published today, Friday 14 September, in IOP...

Rare Grooves: The Dropa Discs

15/09/2012

‘The stone disks you have mentioned do not exist; but, being extraneous objects in this museum, they were relocated.’ The discovery of a mass grave containing dwarfish skeletons with abnormally...

Hot as Hell, But Where’s the Hottest?

14/09/2012

"This investigation demonstrates that, because of continued improvements in meteorology and climatology, researchers can now reanalyze past weather records in much more detail and with greater...

Jeff The Brotherhood [Live]

14/09/2012

Jeff The Brotherhood are amongst the new wave of noisy duos to create a substantial buzz. Although the Nashville band have now been in existence for more than a decade - including drummer Jamin's...

[Video] A Winged Victory for the Sullen

13/09/2012

A Winged Victory for the Sullen's 'Requiem For The Static King Part One' directed by Christopher Hewitt...

[Listen] The New Union

13/09/2012

Brighton's The New Union combine the better bits of The Macabees and Coldplay in a joyous single 'Without You', out on October 8th (Two Sisters Records). Details of where to catch them live are at...

Disgusting! Sexual Arousal Makes Us Less Squeamish

13/09/2012

Well, we've all done things in the heat of passion that, in other circumstances, would seem a touch yucky (now give that hairbrush a good wash, madam). Actually, in the cold light of morning, the...

With a bit of graft you can get almost anyone's contact detail. Every so often I propose something sensible and they get back to me. The results are some of the best and most interesting work we've...

2:54 Cover Adamski/Seal

12/09/2012

When ZTT bit the dust, Seal went from being an edgy urban electronica act to something more akin to a one-man Lighthouse Family. That said, 2:54 have channeled the bleak and sterile undertones of...

Redrails [Album]

12/09/2012

Challenging, Redrails most certainly is. Rewarding, in equal measure. Intriguing, and destined to be the source of many hours spent, headphones on, grasping to find the mental setting in which it all...

Gut Feeling. Surgeons Leave 4000 Objects Inside Patients

11/09/2012

The swab, which was boring its way into the rectum, was clearly visible on a CT scan. Removal of the swab resolved her symptoms. Well, here's a word for you: 'gossypium'. And it refers to the...

The Economy of Violence

11/09/2012

The fact that Hollywood often releases certain types of movies ‘en glut’ has led to conspiracy theories that it is manipulated by our old friend ‘dark forces’, but the truth is that this...

Rupert Stroud [Single]

10/09/2012

Putting in the miles, sofabeds and service-station all-day breakfasts, Rupert Stroud has been touring hard in the UK all summer. All grist to the mill, and meaning that when 'Twisted Games' and 'No...

Listener [Live]

10/09/2012

Performing a set covering both old and newer material, Listener create an electric, vacuous atmosphere of mystification and strike the crowd near-dumb. The usual glazed, blank looks at the back of...

Green Man [Festival]

10/09/2012

What with hugging around the Green Man and reading people’s wishes on little mailing labels around the tree, this has been a pleasant valley, bucolic, neo-druidic experience. Thoughts of love, to...

Loitered Lens: Taragano Theatre

09/09/2012

Carl Byron Batson captures the passion of Taragano Theatre's Chrysalis. They played together with the combination of the deep, soulful tones of the cello and the higher pitched breathy sound of...

Fathers who sleep closer to children have lower testosterone levels

08/09/2012

Surely this is a good thing. Fathers who sleep closer to children have lower testosterone levels Closer sleeping proximity between fathers and children is associated with a greater decrease in the...

Trickle Up

08/09/2012

Exceptional upward mobility in the US is a myth, international studies show. ...

David Lynch : Crazy Clown Time [Deluxe Edition]

08/09/2012

David Lynch is a deft practitioner of ‘Vagueness of form’, as so evidently witnessed in Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Firewalk With Me, and, in fact - all his films. Crazy Clown Time uses a mixture...

LEDs winning Energy Race.

07/09/2012

Today's light-emitting diode light bulbs have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps. And that gap is expected to grow significantly as technology and manufacturing methods...

[Listen] Matmos release Schwarz Remix

07/09/2012

Matmos' forthcoming 'Very Large Green Triangles' has been remixed by Baltimore producer Schwarz in aid of the Maryland Food Bank The track can be purchased from Matmos' Bandcamp for a voluntary...

London: The Modern Babylon [Film]

07/09/2012

Temple’s film is aimed at middle-aged armchair warriors, like himself, and clumsily manipulates the moving image to reinforce left wing stereotypes. Churchill was BAD. Thatcher was BAD. Ken...

Zed Bias – Heavy Water Riddim [Listen]

06/09/2012

There are overtones of Amon Tobin, the Zatoichi rhythm sequences and of course Matthew Herbert in the track - so if those names mean anything give it go. ...

Reusing London’s Olympic Drug Labs

06/09/2012

London Olympics anti-doping labs set for first-of-a-kind repurposing...

Soon Come: Male birth control on the way.

06/09/2012

Attention men: The day may be coming soon when you can take your own birth control pill with no side effects, according to a study done by a group of scientists that includes a Texas A&M University...

Lydia Lunch: The Lexington

06/09/2012

Fresh from her performance at the Manchester 'Fat-out' festival, Lydia Lunch relished the part of 'Mistress of Ceremonies', showcasing various friends and new talents that she had cobbled together...

Sex and Women, It’s a Magazine Thing. Or not.

05/09/2012

"Our results suggest that the complex and sometimes conflicting representations of female sexuality proliferating in the mass media and popular culture could potentially have both empowering and...

Bloodstock 2012

05/09/2012

Their fist-pumping fusion of brutish guitar and folk-esque synth lines make for a brilliant way to kick off my Bloodstock. They bring a feeling of raw ‘epic-ness’ that, although strived for by...

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