Tim Harper

Reacting to a perceived slight by Lord Broers in this weeks Reith Lecture, Eric Drexler has used the Foresight institutes […]

No sooner to we suggest that the Drexlerian wing get on and do some research than they publish a call

The Grauniad’s Ian Sample ran a series of interviews with the (prospective) ministers for science of the three leading political

Last nights Reith Lectureresulted in the blog world being awash with the usual informed and independent commentators chastising the scientific

This years Reith Lectures are delivered by (formerly Sir, now Lord) Alec Broers who has moved from being vice chancellor

We recently commented on the pressure piling up on “nano” companies funded in the first bout of nano frenzy. Certainly

A few years ago HP had an ad looking at the applications of nanotechnology, and one of the applications mentioned

The Hay on Wye literature festival has long attracted literary giants from around the world to an otherwise sleepy Welsh

One of the criticisms of large scale public projects is that there is little in the way of independent review

We are always sceptical when we receive news of the publication of a new book on how to get rich