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Anxiety about the e-future – and in particular who it is going to make redundant – seems suddenly to be bursting out of every corner of the ...

Here is my latest piece for BBC Future. I have also posted a little comment on the work on a Youtube channel that I am in the process of cre...

I have just received delivery of Colour in the Making: From Old Wisdom to New Brilliance , a book published by Black Dog, in which I hav...

My new book Serving the Reich is published on 10 October. Here is one of the little offshoots, a piece for Research Fortnight (which the k...

I have just reviewed Malcolm Gladwell’s new book for Nature. I had my reservations, but on seeing Steven Poole’s acerbic job in today’s New...

I often wonder how the letters pages of newspapers and magazines work. For the main articles, most publications use some form of fact-checki...

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...