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When from time to time I’m fortunate enough to be asked to give a talk at a scientific meeting in a country that requires a visa, I always a...

My Chemistry World Crucible column for November... And I really do want to give this a go one day. ____________________________________...

I finally got around to watching all of Particle Fever . It’s great, and makes me all the happier that Fabiola Gianotti will be the new dire...

Here's a pre-edited version of my piece for the Observer today, with a little bit more stuff still in it and some links. This was a gr...

There’s a super discussion on evolutionary theory in Nature this week. It’s prompted by the views of Kevin Laland at St Andrews, who has b...

In what I hope might be a timely occasion with Nobel-fever in the air, here is my leader for the latest issue of Nature Materials . This pa...

As part of a feature section in the October issue of La Recherche on uncertainty, I interviewed Robert Crease, historian and philosopher of...

This is the English version of the cover article (in French) of the latest issue of La Recherche (October). It’s accompanied by an intervie...

This was intended as a "first response" to the Nobel announcement this morning, destined for the Prospect blog . But as it can t...

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...