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Space experiments should be a cheap shot [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for muse@nature.com - with some added comment ...

Hybrids and helium [This is the pre-edited version of my Lab Report column for the October issue of Prospect .] It’s not obvious that, when ...

Burning water and other myths [Here is my latest piece for muse@nature. This stuff dismays and delights me in equal measure. Dismays, becaus...

Arthur Eddington was innocent! [This is, pre-edited as usual, my latest article for muse@nature. I wonder whether I have been a little guilt...

Singing sands find a new tune [Here’s the unedited version of my latest article for news@nature, which has a few more comments from the rese...

Letter to Prospect: a response My column for the June issue of Prospect (available in the archives here) can be seen as somewhat sceptical ...

Check out those Victorian shades, dude For people interested in the cultural histories of materials, there is a lovely paper by Bill Brock ...

Spider-Man’s buddies and other elites [This is the pre-edited version of my latest article for muse@nature.com.] Marvel Universe reflects so...

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water…” [It’s been pointed out to me that my commentary on the Homeopathy special issue on the memory...

After the flood [ This is the pre-edited version of my Lab Report column for the September issue of Prospect. ] Can there be a pub in the co...

The Hydra lives: more on homeopathy There’s no rest for the wicked, it seems. My wickedness was to voice criticisms, here and on the Nature ...

Chemistry in pictures Joachim Schummer and Tami Spector have just published in Hyle a paper based on their presentation at the 2004 meetin...

A wardrobe for Mars [This is my Material Witness column for the September issue of Nature Materials .] No one has a date booked for a party ...

A bad memory I have just read all the papers on ‘the memory of water’ published in a special issue of the journal Homeopathy , which will be...