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I have written mainly for Physics World and New Scientist. If you are a New Scientist subscriber, you can read the articles by clicking the links; if you aren’t, you will just see the first couple of paragraphs. Likewise, the first few paragraphs of all the Physics World articles are available online, but except for Guglielmo Marconi: radio star you’ll need to subscribe to see the whole thing.
Technological tussles – minus drama
August 2004
Diving down in search of utopia
August 2003
Charting the course of the Pye pioneer
December 2002
Guglielmo Marconi: radio star
December 2001
The descent of men
Issue 2369, 16 November 2002
Narrative drive
Issue 2343, 18 May 2002
Smart sparks
Issue 2332, 2 March 2002
Songs of innocence and experience
Issue 2318, 24 November 2001
The world at their feet
Issue 2240, 27 May 2000
Clean sweep
Issue 2223, 29 January 2000
Take me to the South Pole
Issue 2176, 6 March 1999
Fairy tales
Issue 2174, 20 February 1999
The cat's pyjamas
Issue 2141, 4 July 1998
Bell's calling
Issue 2112, 13 December 1997
Temporary hero
Issue 2106, 1 November 1997
A pure view of Popper
Issue 2085, 7 June 1997
Mind made objects
Issue 2063, 4 January 1997
Go buy a glove
Issue 2042, 10 August 1996
Collected works
Issue 2001, 28 October 1995
One from the heart
Issue 1973, 15 April 1995
Home of the cow car wash
Issue 1949, 29 October 1994
One man's greening of the American dream
Issue 1938, 13 August 1994
The joys of glimpsing old oxo packets
Issue 1919, 2 April 1994
Visualisers for society
Issue 1899, 13 November 1993