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P hysicists start saying farewell to reality Quantum mechanics just got even stranger [This is my pre-edited story for Nature News on a pap...

Tales of the expected [This is the pre-edited version of my latest Muse article for Nature online news.] A recent claim of water on an extra...

Violin makers miss the best cuts [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for Nature’s online news. For more on the subject, I r...

Prospect - a response David Whitehouse, once a science reporter for the BBC, has responded to my denunciation of ‘climate sceptics’ in Prosp...

When it’s right to be reticent [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for muse@nature.com] The caution of climate scientists i...

More noise from the markets Those wacky economic analysts are at it again. Since I enjoy Paul Mason’s cheeky-chappie appearances as the busi...

Can you tell true art from fake? Well, find out. Mikhail Simkin at UCLA (whose work on 'false citations' in the scientific literatu...

If addiction's the problem, prohibition's not the answer [This is the pre-edited version of my latest muse article for Nature's ...

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 ...