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When I was talking recently in Barcelona at a music conference, I was interviewed by a Spanish newspaper, which has now published the piece ...

A lot of people have strong opinions about that, as is clear from the comments that have followed on from my article of this title for Physi...

Here’s my latest Crucible column for Chemistry World . ___________________________________________________________________________________...

I just discovered that this book review I wrote recently for The National , a UAE newspaper, was published back in early June. It doesn’t s...

I’ve got a piece in the latest issue of Prospect (not yet online) about the recent report on the state of the oceans from the IPSO project....

Earlier this month I went to a discussion about SciArt – more specifically, BioArt – at the GV Art gallery in London. Debates about science ...

Here’s my Crucible column for the July issue of Chemistry World . We haven’t heard the end of this story, I’m sure. ______________________...

Here’s a bit of naked advertising, because it’s for a good cause. The competition below, organized by ASCI in New York, should be fun if it ...

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...