Popular Publications

Scientific controversies: three articles in La Recherche, August 2013. In French: but see here.

“Take it to the limit”, New Scientist, 2 August 1997, p.32.

“Smart stuff”, booklet to accompany the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2002. Available from the RI: www.rigb.org

“A new kind of alchemy”, New Scientist, 16 April 2005, p.30.

“Agents of change”, The Economist 24 July 2010, p.70.

“Impossible reactions”, New Scientist, p30-34, 21 January 2012. Available here.

“Can we build a quantum computer?”, Prospect December 2013. See here.

“Supercool water”, New Scientist, 1 August 1998, p.30.

“Seeing red· and yellow· and green· and·”, Natural History 3/02, p.64 (2002).

“Concerto for mother tongue”, New Scientist, 9 July 2005, p.32.