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It’s sometimes said in defence of J. K. Rowling that even indifferent writing can take children towards better fare. I have no idea, from ve...

Here’s a piece I wrote for the Prospect blog on the physics Nobel. For my Prospect article on the renaissance of interest in the foundati...

This one appeared yesterday on Nature news . __________________________________________________ A study of scientific papers’ histories ...

Here’s my previous piece for BBC Future . A new one just went up – will add that soon. This Center for Lightning Research in Florida lo...

Just got back from judging the Chemistry World science writing competition . Makes me feel old, or perhaps just reminds me that I am. Anywa...

This was a damned difficult story to write for Nature news, and the published version is a fair bit different to this original text. I can...

Yes, there’s more tonight. It's Friday. Here’s my latest news story for Nature . This one was tough, but hopefully worth it. Possibly I...

OK, BBC Future again. Who said Zzzzz? [Incidentally, who did decree in kids’ books that sleeping would be denoted by “Zzzzz”? It sounds noth...

Here is my latest piece for BBC Future (which you can’t see in the UK). I have at least one other piece from this column yet to put up here...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature . There’s a lot of superscripts in here, for which I’ll use the x**n notation. Every time I encounte...

This obituary of Martin Fleischmann appears in a similar form in the latest issue of Nature . No one, of course, wants to seem carping or c...

Here’s my latest Crucible column for Chemistry World . A techie one, but no harm in that. I also have a feature on nanobubbles in this (Sep...

Here’s more on Iamus , the computer programme that writes music you might actually want to listen to. It is published in Nature this week,...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature . ____________________________________________________________________ A recent finding that un...