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Cold is hot Three cheers for BBC4’s Absolute Zero , a two-part series on ‘cold’ that began last night. I thought this was one of the best sc...

Liquids bounce again [I can’t resist putting up this little item, written for news@nature, because it is a classic kitchen experiment you ca...

Chartres on film Late last year I nearly froze my tender parts off standing on the turret of a ruined Tudor mansion in Sussex taking about C...

It could only happen in the movies [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for muse@nature.com] Real science can’t compete at t...

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...