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Here is an extended version of my latest piece for Nature News. There are of course more details about lots of the things discussed here i...

The story about demands (on my publisher) for royalties for quoting Goebbels raises fascinating issues. It is all the more complex because ...

Here is the original version of my leader for Nature Materials , which I want to put up here to acknowledge the insightful input from Bob C...

Prospect preferred that I keep my short review of Steven Weinberg’s book To Explain the World behind the paywall. But he’s obliged by inv...

Very interesting to see in Nature the changes in British readers’ voting intentions from 2010 to the forthcoming UK election in May. In a n...

In the Dark Ages, the Vikings set out in their longships to slaughter, rape, pillage, and conduct sophisticated measurements in optical p...

I haven’t found any reports of the opening of Cornelia Parker’s new solo show at the Whitworth in Manchester. Did the fireworks go off? Di...

Here’s an extended version of my article in Chemistry World on the "Books of Secrets" exhibition currently at the Chemical Herit...

Oh, they used the G word. The Guardian put “playing God” in the headline of my article today on mitochondrial replacement, and now everyon...