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Yes, it looks different. It sort of just happened. I was updating my links, and then they all vanished and I got this new look, complete wit...

I thought I could resist. I really did. I was convinced it would just waste my time, and perhaps it will. But here it is: I’m on Twitter. ht...

This ball lightning has got everywhere (like here and here and here ), often inaccurately – the paper in Physical Review Letters doesn...

Here is 2012 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Brian Kobilka speaking yesterday at the opening ceremony of the International Year of Crystallograp...

Here’s my other little piece for Nature news. The videos of this thing in flight, provided on the Nature site , are rather beautiful. ___...

I have a couple of news stories on Nature ’s site this week. Here’s the first . This is, I think, more of a cautionary tale than a surprisin...

Research Funding Insight recently asked me to write a piece on the “future of physics”, to accompany a critique of string theory and its off...

In my book Serving the Reich , I make some remarks about the potential pitfalls of naming institutions, prizes and so forth after “great” sc...

I have a piece in Aeon about instruments in science. Here’s how it looked at the outset. ________________________________________________...

More supermarket science for the rather sweet lifestyle magazine The Simple Things . This time it’s a little discourse on colour. Just in ca...

This is my Crucible column for the January issue of Chemistry World . _______________________________________________________________ Th...

Here’s the initial version of my latest piece for the Under the Radar column of BBC Future . ____________________________________________...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature . ______________________________________________________________ A tiny island in the Pacific wa...

Here’s something that boggled my mind, and which I wrote up for BBC Future . __________________________________________________________ ...

There’s a bit of a fracas going on about David Dobbs’ article in Aeon on the obsolescence of the ‘selfish gene’: see here and here . In th...