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I seem to have persuaded Charlotte Raven , and doubtless now many others too, that Yves Saint Laurent’s Forever Youth Liberator skin cream i...

Here’s a piece about an event in NYC in which I took part at the end of last month. _______________________________________________________...

Here’s the news story on this year’s Abel Prize that I’ve just written for Nature . You’ve always got to take a deep breath before diving i...

Here’s another piece from BBC Future. Again, for non-UK readers the final version is here . _______________________________________________...

I have begun to write a regular column for a new BBC sci/tech website called BBC Future. The catch is that, as it is funded (not for profit)...

One of the leaders in this week’s Nature is mine; here’s the original draft. ____________________________________________________ Paul ...

Here’s the pre-edited version of my latest news story for Nature . I really liked this work. I was lucky to meet Rolf Landauer before he di...

For Francophones, I have a piece in the February issue of La Recherche on spacetime cloaking, part of a special feature on invisibility. F...

Well, I'm here and just thought it possible that someone in NYC might see this before tomorrow (25 Feb) is up. I'm taking part in th...

I wrote a leader for this week’s Nature on the forthcoming talks for an international Arms Trade Treaty. Here’s the original version. ___...

With the shrill cries of new atheists ringing in my ears (you would not believe some of that stuff, but I won’t go there), I read John Gray...

This piece in the Guardian has caused a little storm, and I’m not so naive as to be totally surprised by that. There’s much I could say ab...

I have a review of a book about John Dee in the latest issue of Nature . Here's how it started. ______________________________________...

Here’s my latest Muse for Nature News. But while I’m in that neck of the woods, I very much enjoyed the piece on Dickens in the latest iss...

Tanguy Chouard at Nature has pointed out to me Google’s tribute to the snowflake today: This is a beautiful example of the kind of bogus f...

I’ve just published a feature article in New Scientist on “reactions they said could never happen” (at least, that was my brief). A fair b...