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Here is my latest Crucible column for Chemistry World . Do look out for Jim and Johnjoe’s book Life of the Edge , which very nicely rounds ...

Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller is one of the finest and funniest meditations on writing that I’ve ever read. It also co...

Here’s my take on Dürer’s Melencolia I on its 500th anniversary, published in Nature this week. _____________________________________...

The nerd with the safety specs who is always cropping up on TV doing crazy experiments for Jim Al-Khalili or Mark Miodownik or Michael Mos...

Here’s my Point of View piece from the Guardian Review a week ago. It’s fair to say that my new book Invisible is now out, and I’m deligh...

This is my Materials Witness column for the August issue of Nature Materials . I normally figure these columns are a bit too specialized t...

La Recherche asked me to recommend my favourite science book for a special issue of the magazine. I had to go for Richard Holmes’ The Ag...

Here’s a Commentary written for the collection of essays curated by Nature Materials for the International Year of Crystallography . It...

This piece started off headed for Prospect's blog , but didn't quite make it. So you get it instead. ___________________________...

Here is a commentary that I have just published in the Lancet . ___________________________________________________________________ “I ...

Here is a slightly different version of my article for Nautilus on turbulence – in particular, with several more images, as this piece see...