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Nanotech rolls on There's a nice little paper about to appear online in Nature Nanotechnology (advance online publication, doi:10.1038/...

Water in biology I have started a new blog called Water in Biology , which does what it says on the can. My hope is that it will act as a fo...

Dark matter, memories and chimeras [ This is my Lab Report column for the forthcoming (February) issue of Prospect. ] Cosmic bones The unive...

You couldn't make it up "School chemistry ban for teen tartan terrorist". There I was all ready to sink my teeth into this gre...

Looking for ways to fill up your Christmas holiday? Then why not heed these shameless plugs for my friends? John Whitfield’s book In The Bea...

Pushing protons around [This is the pre-edited version of my Crucible column for the February issue of Chemistry World .] Life is pretty sim...

Mining the moon for all it’s worth It's one of the curious characteristics of space exploration that the usual stringent hurdles for sci...

Treacherous beauty [This is a review of a book on the zoological art of Ernst Haeckel, to be published in Nature .] Visions of Nature: The A...

Tainted by association? [This is the pre-edited version of my latest muse column for news@nature .] Richard Doll's links with industry a...

Looking for Turing’s fingerprints Here is the pre-edited version of my Crucible column for the January 2007 issue of Chemistry World .There’...

Is there such a thing as a 'safe technology'? [This is the pre-edited text of my latest muse for Nature , which relates to a paper ...

Hooke: what came next? I went to a nice talk by Lisa Jardine at the (peripatetic) Royal Institution last week, on the newly discovered notes...

Economists as storytellers Economist blogger Dave Iverson has written to me about my “tease” (his words, nice choice) in the Financial Times...

Was life inevitable? Here’s the unexpurgated version of my latest story for news@nature. There’s a lot of really interesting back story her...

No offence? Well well, I hadn’t anticipated that I was lighting a fuse with my FT article on economics. There has been more follow-up in th...

When you can't do it all with mirrors [This is the unedited text of my recent article for muse@nature.com.] A new proposal and costing ...

More on the dismal science I have drawn some inevitable flak for my criticisms of economic theory in the Financial Times . That’s no more t...

In defence of consensus If I were to hope for psychological subtlety from soap operas, or historical accuracy from Dan Brown, I’d have only ...

Decoding Da Vinci, decoded I’m hoping that anyone who feels moved to challenge my dismissal of Fibonacci sequences and the Golden Mean in na...