By day, Roger Highfield is a mild-mannered science journalist, author and broadcaster. But under that crisp white lab coat beats the heart of his alter ego, Boffin...

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I am the Editor of New Scientist, the world's leading science and technology weekly. Here is the latest issue:

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what makes my blood boil...

Psychology

Go to a general science meeting (such as the British Ass or the AAAS) and observe the press conferences. Now compare the "hard science" events with those of the softer, social scientists. I have had the opportunity to do this many times and am often struck by how particle physicists and cosmologists manage to bring very arcane subjects to life. They make their tricky fields apparently comprehensible and rational (this, of course, has to be an illusion, because the ...

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