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David Wootton has sent me some responses to the accusations made by some of the reviewers of his book The Invention of Science , including ...

Here is a longer version of the leader that I wrote for Nature this week. ______________________________________________________________...

There’s a very interesting post (if you’re a science writer) on journalistic ethics from Erik Vance here . I confess that I’ve been blissful...

This summer I went to one of the most extraordinary scientific gatherings I’ve ever attended. Where else would you find Martin Rees, Rolf Ha...

I have just received a copy of the Australian science magazine Cosmos in the post, as I have an article in it on invisibility. And it reaff...

Here is a review of Melinda Baldwin’s basically sound and thoughtful “biography” of Nature . It was destined for the Observer , but scheduli...

The impressive experiments described in a preprint by Ronald Hanson at Delft and colleagues have been widely reported (for example, here a...

Can a crowd write a song? That’s what an online experiment by computer programmer Brendon Ferris in the Dominican Republic is hoping to det...

Here, a little belatedly, is my July column for Nature Materials , which considers the issues around bioprinting of fake rhino horn. ____...

Here’s my latest column for Nature Materials . _______________________________________________________________________ The ability of co...

I was perhaps a bit cryptic in tweeting about my New Statesman piece on “the immortality business” (which I’m afraid I can’t put up here, b...

That the computer scientist Charles Simonyi has endowed a professorial chair at Oxford for the Public Understanding of Science seems a rathe...