Overmatter

Describing something dull as being as interesting as watching paint dry might be surprisingly innacurate at the small scale. If it were poss...

On December 30th at 8.30pm (repeated on January 1st), my radio documentary Grey Goo's Sticky Mess was broadcast. At the time of writing ...

In the Christmas edition of The Economist, check out an article about the incipient private space tourism industry. " One small step fo...

It doesn't appear that nanotechnology is going to bring an end to the world any time soon. But for anyone interested in a more detail...

This Thursday (tomorrow!) I start work on a survey of nanotechnology. I have to figure out what the fuss is really all about. Are we going t...

1. Much excitement in the science department this week as NASA's Genesis probe crashed in Utah just as we were closing the section. We h...

After the heat of the day, Moroccans perk up and get lively. This is one of a series of photographs taken over a long weekend in Mar...