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I have a piece in the July issue of Prospect on DNA nanotechnology. This is the pre-edited version. ____________________________________...

John Gray once said to me, wary that we might find consensus on the topic we were discussing, that “there can be too much agreement”. That i...

Here’s my latest piece for BBC Future. And this seems an opportune place to advertise Jo Marchant’s latest book The Shadow King (Da Capo)...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature . __________________________________________________________ A new ‘invisibility cloak’ can hi...

Yes, but then you turn to Carole Cadwalladr’s article in the Observer Review on having her genome sequenced. It made me seethe. The arti...

Here’s a book review of mine that appears in today’s Observer . ___________________________________________________________ Time Reborn...

The special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on the work and influence of D’Arcy Thompson that I have coedited with Matthew Jarr...

Here’s the more or less original version of an article I’ve written for Aeon magazine. It carries a heavy debt to the wonderful catalogu...

Here’s my latest piece for BBC Future . _______________________________________________________________ Bacteria resistant to antibioti...

I have reviewed a new biography of Nikola Tesla in the Wall Street Journal . The review is available online , but I don’t know how long i...

This year isn’t only the diamond anniversary of Watson & Crick’s DNA structure but also the centenary of the technique that enabled them...

BBC4’s The Science of Music , presented by Robert Winston, has impressed me so far with the level at which it has been able to discuss the i...

I’ve written the catalogue notes for an exhibition that has just opened at the Pangolin Gallery in the King’s Place, King’s Cross, Londo...