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Here’s my latest piece for BBC Future. ___________________________________________________________ How cold is it in space? That questio...

So the plan is that I’ll be writing a regular (ideally weekly) blog piece for Prospect from now on. Here is the current one , stemming fr...

I have finally published a long-gestated piece in Nature ( 501 , p154; 12 September) on quantum reconstructions. It has been one of the mo...

Here’s the initial version of my latest news story for Nature . ___________________________________________________ Toothed gears all...

Here’s the last of the La Recherche pieces on 'controversies': a short profile of Martin Fleischmann and cold fusion. ___________...

Here’s my second piece for La Recherche ’s special issue in August on scientific controversies – this one on the ‘memory of water’. ______...

The August issue of La Recherche has the theme of ‘controversies in science’. I wrote several pieces for it – this is the first, on the bat...

Before it gets too previous, here is an earlier piece for BBC Future. _________________________________________________________ It’s tim...

I hope people have been listening to Lisa Jardine’s Seven Ages of Science on BBC Radio 4. It is very nice – a refreshingly personal and idi...

Here’s my latest Crucible column for Chemistry World . ________________________________________________________ The strange thing about...

Several things to catch up with after the holidays, and here’s the spoddiest first: a leader for Nature Materials celebrating the 50th a...

This is a long version of the news story I’ve just published with Nature – there is just so much to talk about here. _________________...