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I am an author, journalist and TV producer, specialising in science and mathematics, the only two subjects I have the faintest clue about. My latest book is Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, which I have co-authored with Edzard Ernst, the world’s first professor of complementary medicine
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- Virtual reality: It's time for garage inventors again June 19, 2013Palmer Luckey, the man driving the renaissance of virtual reality, started out with only his passion […]
- Inside Fukushima: Draining a radioactive flood June 19, 2013Groundwater influx is adding to the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated water that the Japanese nuclear power plant needs to dispose of (full text available to subscribers) […]
- The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving June 19, 2013Evolutionary biology could help us outmanoeuvre the enormous genetic variation found within each tumour […]
- Cosmic preheating baked planets, stars and people June 19, 2013A new model bridges the gap between the cold, empty universe after inflation and the dense, hot soup that gave rise to all matter […]
- Dreams on demand: Virtual reality finally delivers June 19, 2013Virtual reality is rising from the dead thanks to a start-up with global ambitions and crowdfunded technology to back them. Pleased to meet you, Oculus Rift […]