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This is the introduction to a forthcoming Chinese edition of my book Bright Earth . ______________________________________________________...

It’s interesting now to go back (such a long time ago!) and read the White Paper released by the UK government in February on exiting the E...

I’ve had an illuminating discussion with Mateus Araujo after he blogged about my piece for Nature on quantum teleportation. Mateus pointe...

Tristan Casabianca has kindly drawn my attention to an article he published last year which discussed the case for the authenticity of the ...

This graphic from New Scientist , and conversations last night at the Science Museum, got me thinking. Using Schrödinger’s cat as a way t...

It was fun to write this piece for Nautilus on who would have made some of the great discoveries in science if their actual discoverers ha...

These were my comments on Hisham Matar’s book The Return for the Baillie Gifford Prize award event on 15 November. The prize, for which ...

Did the First Emperor of China import sculptors from classical Greece to help build the Terracotta Army? That’s the intriguing hypothesis ...

This is the catalogue essay to accompany the exhibition Metachromes by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London, 6 Oc...

In the wake of the most ugly nationalism we have seen from a British government for some decades, here’s my oh-so-topical column on music ...

This is a longer version of a comment in the latest issue of Research Fortnight . It took a while, and inevitably events have somewhat moved...

Is anyone any longer in any serious doubt that the leaders of the Brexit campaign feel they can just come out with whatever fact-free, delir...