The Curious Wavefunction

Head over to the Scientific American blog for  a post  that discusses a recent article suggesting a link between gene duplication and the p...

My latest post on the Scientific American blog network ties together several threads about reductionism, emergence and the nature of scien...

As they say, the essence of chemistry is change, so it seems only fitting that I will be moving part of my blogging to a new blog (with th...

Chemists love rogues, oddballs which seem to defy the rules and bond, react, and exist on their own terms. The rogues are valuable becaus...

For those dogged souls still following the whole debacle of arsenic-eating bacteria, it seems that Science has published what should be cl...

A recent issue of Nature had an interesting article on what seems to be a wholly paradoxical feature of models used in climate scien...

Over the last few years, one of the most interesting findings in drug screening and testing at a preclinical level has been the observati...

There has been a lot of discussion during the last decade about the continuing attrition in the pharmaceutical industry and the absence o...

Rosie Redfield (who blogs on this network) has just published an official, careful and decisive rebuttal to the "arsenic bacteria...

Last year's physics Nobel Prize was awarded to a group of three people who discovered one of the most significant recent facts about ...