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Here’s the thing. Director and former particle physicist Mark Levinson has made a film, Particle Fever , about the finding of the Higgs part...

Here, just in time for the London Marathon, is my latest piece for BBC Future . And now I know where the cover of Critical Mass came from...

The aforementioned A Natural History of Ghosts by Roger Clarke (which I highly recommend) informs me that Einstein once wrote “Even if I sa...

There is probably some unwritten rule somewhere that you should never blog at 5 in the morning, but I see no real prospect that the Atletico...

My enjoyment of eulogies for J. G. Ballard, like this one in the Guardian on the 5th anniversary of his death, is always tempered by a sen...

No one particularly needs me to tell them about the BICEP2 results, given that so many others have already done so very nicely. But here is ...

I do enjoy reporting for Nature on the Abel Prize in maths, as I’ve done for the past several years. The Norwegians are friendly and helpf...

Here's my latest piece for "Under the Radar" at BBC Future . ____________________________________________________ Listen, ...

I hear that the relaunched Cosmos TV series has included a little hagiography of Giordano Bruno as a martyr to Copernican science, and I sig...

Here’s a kind of initial edit of my piece and invisibility for Nautilus. ________________________________________________________________...

“Molecular mechanisms that generate biological diversity are rewriting ideas about how evolution proceeds”. I couldn’t help noticing how sim...

Here's a kind of pre-edit of my latest column for the Prospect blog. _______________________________________________________ As Pr...

Here’s a little book review about an intriguing field. It appeared in Chemistry World . __________________________________________________...