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Here’s my last story for BBC Future . _______________________________________________________________ Who will find dark matter first? W...

Of all the regular meetings that I used to attend as a Nature editor, the one I enjoyed most was the annual Fall meeting of the US Material...

Oh, here’s one from BBC Future that I almost missed – the latest in ‘illusion optics’. I have a little video discussion of this too. ___...

Here’s my latest piece for the Prospect blog. I also have a piece in the latest issue of the magazine on quantum computing, but I’ll post ...

Here’s my latest Crucible column for the November issue of Chemistry World . It’s something that’s always puzzled me. I suppose I could laz...

Time to catch up a little with what has been happening with my new book Serving The Reich . It has had some nice reviews in the Observer , ...

Here’s a blog posting for Prospect . You can see a little video podcast about it too. __________________________________________________...

Here’s a news story I have written for Physics World . It makes me realize I still don’t understand the uncertainty principle, or at least ...

In working on my next book (details soon), I have recently been in touch with a well-known science-fiction author, who very understandably...

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...