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Everyone knows how science writing works. Academic scientists labour with great diligence to tease nuanced truths from theory and experiment...

Here's the English version of my column on music cognition for the current issue of the Italian science magazine Sapere . ____________...

I reviewed Stephen Hawking's last book Brief Answers to the Big Questions for New Scientist , but it needed shortening and, in the prin...

There’s a curious incident that took place at the excellent "Schrödinger at 75: The Future of Life" meeting in Dublin last week th...

The conference “Schrödinger at 75: The Future of Life” in Dublin, from which I’m now returning, was a fabulous event, packed with good talk...

The rapid advances in quantum computing as a technology with real applications are reflected in the increases in the number of qubits these ...

Discussing the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics with Adam Becker and Jim Baggott makes me think it would be worthwhile setting...

Here’s a longer version of the news story I just published in Scientific American , which includes more context and background. The interpr...

There was never any prospect that my article in New Statesman on genes, intelligence and education would wrap up everything so nicely that...

In February I had the pleasure of meeting Jem Finer, the founder of the Longplayer project, to discuss the “music of the future” at this eve...

Dana Smith has written a nice article for Undark about whether science journalists should or should not show drafts or quotes to their sci...

The Twitter discussion sparked by this poll was very illuminating. There’s a clear sense that scientists largely think they should be entit...