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I wrote a piece for the Guardian on what we might expect in science, and what some of the big issues will be, in 2018. It was originally s...

This article on Last Word On Nothing by Cassandra Willyard brought about a fascinating debate – at least if you’re a science writer or have...

There’s something thrilling about how, five centuries ago, the rebel monk Martin Luther defied his accusers. At a council (‘Diet’) in the Ge...

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 ...