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Here’s my latest news story for Nature News. **************************************************** Script writers have internalized the ...

From time to time, Nature used to receive (and doubtless still does) crank letters claiming that Einstein was not the first to derive E=mc2...

I have a feature in this week’s Nature on quantum biology, and more specifically, on the phenomenon of quantum coherence in photosynthesis...

To be honest, I already suspected that Philip Pullman, literary darling of militant atheists (no doubt to his chagrin), is more religious th...

Nicholas Lezard has always struck me as a man with the catholic but highly selective tastes (in literature if not in standards of accommodat...

In the latest issue of Nature I have interviewed the composer Eduardo Reck Miranda about his experimental soundscapes, pinned to a forthc...

That’s the question that New Statesman put to a range of folks, including me. My answer was truncated in the magazine, which is fair enoug...

I’ve just discovered a review of Unnatural in the Lancet by Steve Jones. As one might expect, he has an interesting and quite particular ...

I realise that I meant to put up earlier my May column from Prospect . Almost time for the June column now, but here goes. _______________...

I have a review of the RSC’s play Little Eagles in Nature this week. Here it is. Too late now to catch the play, I fear, but I thought i...

Here’s the pre-edited version of my latest news story for Nature . This is such an interesting issue that I plan to write a more detailed p...

There is a smart review of Unnatural in The Age by Damon Young. I don’t just say it is smart because it is positive – he engages intellig...

Here’s my latest Muse for Nature News. _________________________________________________________ Scientific reputations emerge in a col...

Actually (to pick up from the previous post), I’d meant to put my last Crucible column up here too. So here it is now. ___________________...

Oh, it’s risky, I know. But I offer the following mild observations about the recent Templeton Prize in my Crucible column in Chemistry Wor...

I have a review of James Gleick's new book in the Observer today. Here it is. He does an enviable job, on the whole - this is better t...

I have written a news story and a leader for Nature on a new paper examining the notion that there are universal grammatical principles ...

Here’s the pre-edited text of my review for Nature of a new play about Isaac Newton, which I saw recently at the Royal Society and enjoy...

The Naked Scientists is (are?) running a series of podcasts called The Naked Oceans. The latest one has an interview with me about Ernst ...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature, pre-editing. _______________________________________________________________ A disorderly envir...