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Here’s my latest Crucible column for Chemistry World . A techie one, but no harm in that. I also have a feature on nanobubbles in this (Sep...

Here’s more on Iamus , the computer programme that writes music you might actually want to listen to. It is published in Nature this week,...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature . ____________________________________________________________________ A recent finding that un...

Here is my Crucible column from the August issue of Chemistry World . This topic seems to be becoming a big deal, as witnessed for example ...

Here’s another take on the recent paper on modelling of the evolution of colour terms – this time, published in Prospect . ______________...

I discuss my new book Curiosity on the Guardian podcast here . No, I’m not at my most eloquent, but I hope you get the idea. Incidentally,...

I have mixed feelings about the Jonah Lehrer affair . No matter how I dislike the rivalries and jealousies of the writing world, it’s imposs...

My latest story for Chemistry World is strictly for chemistry nerds. But this one for Physics World – extended version below – has hopef...

I have a piece in the Guardian online about this paper from Richard Muller that is causing so much fuss, though it says nothing new and ha...

I’ve a mountain of stuff to put up here after a holiday. For starters, here’s the pre-edited version of an editorial for last week’s issue ...

I don’t read much popular science. That’s not a boast, as if to say that I’m above such things, but a guilty confession – I ought to read mo...

When I was asked to write a piece for the Guardian about the GSK scandal , my first thought was that it would be nice to know Richard Syke...

The Guardian seems to be keeping me busy at the moment. Here’s a piece published today about the GlaxoSmithKline scandal. It was apparently...

This story was in yesterday’s Guardian in slightly edited form . It was accompanied by a review of some of Iamus’s music by Tom Service, w...

I have a piece in the Guardian online on the Mpemba effect and the RSC’s £1000 prize for explaining it. The article is largely unchanged f...