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An ex- Nature editor says that peer review is dead? I hope that isn’t what you’d be left thinking from my Comment in the Guardian (below)...

Here for the record is my article published yesterday on the Guardian History of Science blog (The H Word). Seems you get a better class o...

I have two half-Italian friends who have independently decided to flee that country, partly in despair at the state it’s in. The science m...

What sort of company, then, is GSK? I ask because they seem to be trying very hard to convince us that Ben Goldacre actually gave Big Pharma...

Tomorrow a new exhibition by Peter Randall-Page opens at Pangolin London, called Upside Down & Inside Out . Peter has a long-standing in...

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. ___________________________...