Overmatter

Sometimes it is easy to predict the articles will be popular, and sometimes an article unexpectedly hits a nerve . The essay composed for th...

I find this moderately depressing. If I do a Google search on "antibiotic resistance in bacteria", the top hit is from a website c...

Interesting article by Nancy Baron in the journal Nature which makes a passionate case for why scientists should engage with journalists. T...

In this year's special double Christmas issue of The Economist I have a piece on doctoral degrees. Our Christmas issue is always our mos...

My husband Bruce has just made a short film about an English Santa School which can be found on the BBC News website . Amusing.

SpaceX has just launched its Dragon capsule into orbit. We have blogged about this on the Economist's Sci/Tech blog Babbage . Well done ...

The annual bluefin tuna bust up closes in Paris.