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With the fallout from the MMR scare still with us, t his programme on BBC Radio 4 is a timely reminder of the issues. “Science betrayed”...

I have reviewed the National Theatre’s production of Frankenstein in the latest issue of Nature . Worth seeing (though if you haven’t got ...

Here’s a little news story I wrote for Nature on the Abel Prize. This award presents a notoriously challenging subject for science repo...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature. Eduardo Miranda is working very much at the experimental edge of electronic music – what I’ve h...

Attending a planning meeting for the forthcoming Elements event at the Wellcome Institute on 8 April prompts me to advertise it. I can c...

I have an Opinion piece in Saturday’s Times prompted by research being pursued by the Newcastle embryology team. No point in giving the lin...

I have reviewed  for  Nature the thriller Spiral by nanotech expert Paul McEuen. It is somewhat formulaic but great fun. One could quib...

If you’ve been hearing rumours that alien life forms have been found, here’s the story, as I reported for Nature News. It’s a strange un...

Here’s a little piece I wrote for Nature news. To truly appreciate this stuff you need to take a look at the slideshow . There will be a...

I have a comment on the Prospect blog about the production of Frankenstein at the National Theatre, which I saw this week. To save you...

I have a Muse on Nature’s online news about metaphor in science; here’s the pre-edited version. In this huge and complex topic, this pie...

Here’s my latest news article for Nature . It’s worth checking out the comments on the Nature site. ___________________________________...

While they last: I discuss Unnatural on the Guardian books podcast and on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last Tuesday. 

Here’s my latest Crucible column for Chemistry world. Weird stuff, huh? ***************************************** There is an early can...

If the Daily Mail review is anything to go by (see below), people are going to find in Unnatural just what they expect to find. And I t...

When I wrote recently in New Humanist , apropos of my new book Unnatural , that “It is all too easy for self-appointed moralists who wa...

Another piece for Nature’s online news, and while this is pretty hardcore, it is also a gorgeously bold experiment. *******************...