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This is my latest column for the Italian science magazine Sapere . ________________________________________________________________ ...

The mostly rather splendid adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula just screened by the BBC prompts me to post here this short edited extract ...

Sorry folks, I had to take the full story down - it violates New Scientist's rights agreement, which was entirely my oversight. The publ...

My brief from the wonderfully named Dream Adoption Society of the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw – for their 2019 exhibition...

An exchange of messages with Sabine Hossenfelder about the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics has helped me sharpen my vi...

This essay appears in Entangle: Physics and the Artistic Imagination , a book edited by Ariane Koek and produced for an exhibition of the ...

Some discussion stemming from Erwin Schrödinger’s birthday prompts me to set out briefly why his cat is widely misunderstood and is actually...

I have a Q&A with Katie Paterson in the 25 April issue of Nature . There was a lot in Katie’s comments that I didn’t have room for ther...

There is no positive spin to put on the fire that has gutted Notre Dame Cathedral, and it could sound idiotic to think otherwise. This wa...