How the universe got blown up

No one particularly needs me to tell them about the BICEP2 results, given that so many others have already done so very

Mathematician rewarded for asking the right questions

I do enjoy reporting for Nature on the Abel Prize in maths, as I’ve done for the past several years. The Norwegians are

The value of ambiguity

Here's my latest piece for "Under the Radar" at BBC Future. ____________________________________________________ Listen

Some enlightenment on Giordano Bruno

I hear that the relaunched Cosmos TV series has included a little hagiography of Giordano Bruno as a martyr to Copernic

Searching in the dark

Here’s a kind of initial edit of my piece and invisibility for Nautilus. ______________________________________________

Molecular mechanisms of evolution

“Molecular mechanisms that generate biological diversity are rewriting ideas about how evolution proceeds”. I couldn’t

Neuroscience in the classroom

Here's a kind of pre-edit of my latest column for the Prospect blog. __________________________________________________

The art of molecules

Here’s a little book review about an intriguing field. It appeared in Chemistry World. ________________________________