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Roll on the robots This is the pre-edited version of my Materials Witness column for the April issue of Nature Materials. Spirit, the redoub...

Science on Stage: two views Carl Djerassi has struck back at Kirsten Shepherd-Barr’s rather stinging critique of his plays in a review of ...

Don’t censor the state climatologists Aware that I will no doubt be dismissed as the yes-man of the ‘climate-change consensus’ for my critiq...

The more voices, the better the result in Wiki world Here's the pre-edited version of my latest article for news@nature… The secret to t...

The secret of Islamic patterns This is the pre-edited version of my latest piece for news@nature. The online version acquired some small e...

When research goes PEAR-shaped I’ve got a muse@nature.com column up today about the closure of the lab at Princeton that was investigating ...

Sceptical of the sceptics Here’s the pre-edited version of my March Lab Report column for Prospect . In the course of writing it, I found it...

Space wars I have an editorial piece on news@nature on China’s recent missile destruction of a satellite. The commentary in the scientific ...

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’...