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I have a feature in Nature on developments in crowdsourcing science, looking in particular at the maths project Polymath on its fifth anni...

Are the UK floods a sign of climate change? According to a recent poll , 46 percent of people think so, 27 percent think not. The invitation...

Here’s my latest news story for Nature . ________________________________________________________________ From insects to whales, fly...

A popular-science magazine called Sapere has been published monthly in Italy since 1935. (There's a nice history of science populariz...

Here’s the original draft of my latest piece for Nature news. ___________________________________________________________________ Anot...

Here's a talk , nicely recorded, that I gave on colour and chemistry for the "Big Ideas" course at Bristol at the end of last ...

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. ________________________________________________...