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Designs for life [More matters arising from the Greenland conference: in this case, a paper that John Glass of the Venter Institute discusse...

What is life? A silly question [This will appear as a leader in next week's Nature , but not before having gone through an editorial gr...

The Ilulissat Statement [This is a statement drafted by the participants of the conference in Greenland that I attended two weeks ago. Its r...

Should synthetic biologists patent their components? [This, a piece for Nature’s online muse column, is the first fruit of the wonderful wor...

NATO ponders cyberwarfare [If I were good at kidding myself, I could imagine that NATO officials read my previous muse@nature.com article o...

Is this Chaucer’s astrolabe? [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for Nature’s online news. the original paper is packed wit...

Tendentious tilings [This is my Materials Witness column for the July issue of Nature Materials] Quasicrystal enthusiasts may have been baff...

Does this mean war? [This is my latest article for muse@nature.com] Cyber-attacks in the Baltic raise difficult questions about the threat o...

There’s no such thing as a free fly [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for muse@nature.com] Neuroscience can’t show us the...

Should we get engaged? [This is the pre-edited version of my Crucible column for the June issue of Chemistry World .] In 2015 the BBC broadc...

Prospects for the LHC [This is my pre-edited Lab Report column for the June issue of Prospect .] Most scientific instruments are doors to th...

PS This is all wrong So there you are: your paper is written, and you’ve got it accepted in the world’s leading physics journal, and it has ...

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...