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Here’s my Material Witness column for the July issue of Nature Materials – less techie than usual, so suitable, I think, for your tender ...

Here’s my fourth column on music cognition for Sapere magazine (where you'll only find it in Italian). ____________________________...

Everyone on Twitter seemed to like this amazing droplet video so much that I thought I should put it up here too. I never went quite as gag...

…and here’s a review of an interesting book which also appears in the current issue of Chemistry World (along with a piece by Andy Extan...

Here is my piece on “Pelican blue” from this month’s Chemistry World , which is a lovely special issue on chemistry and art. __________...

Then there’s this , also for Nature news. It shows, I think, that those boring bass solos beloved of jazz and rock bands really are superf...

This piece was for Nature news. For more on animal photonics, look here . Congratulations, by the way, to Peter Vukusic (reference 2) for...

Well, I thought I should put up here for posterity my comment published in the Guardian online about the Breakthrough Prizes . I realise t...

Fashions change. I just learnt from Louise Levathes’ book When China Ruled the Seas that upper-class men in fifteenth-century Siam made a t...

Here’s my latest piece for BBC Future, pre-editing. I was going to illustrate it with that scene from Trainspotting , but I feared no one ...

I don’t think of myself as a pope-basher. But there are times when one can’t help being flabbergasted at what the Vatican is capable of sayi...

My interest in the merits (or not) of cursive writing prompted me to follow up Ed Yong’s recent tweet about an article on handwriting in t...

Here's how my recent article for IEEE Spectrum started off, with some more references, info and links. _____________________________...

Here's my third column for the Italian science magazine Sapere on music cognition. It mentions one of my favourite spine-tingling momen...

Here’s my latest piece for BBC Future . ____________________________________________________________________ So what happened to the ...

Here is my review of Alex Wright’s book on Paul Otlet, published in Nature this week. __________________________________________________...

Here’s the original text of my article on D-Wave’s “quantum computers” (discuss) in the March issue of La Recherche . ________________...