"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future". So said the great physicist Niels Bohr. Yet future forecasting is a big trend, in everything from fashion to technology. But I would argue that most people, including those who claim to specialize in this area, are incapable of genuinely inventive thought....

Picture the scenario. A cocaine addict, ready to do almost anything for his next fix, has a one-night stand. He never contacts the woman again and doesn't even realize he has fathered a son. The son grows up, is offered cocaine and tries it. I bet I know what you're...

A quintessential English gentleman educated at Eton and a Japanese orthopedic surgeon. Not the most likely of traveling companions, you might think. But very soon the two of them will be journeying to Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for research carried out on different continents,...

Aren't we humans marvellous, with our trillions of cells, our long life spans, complex organs and higher cognitive functions? How lovely to look down on the lower creatures, like a humble microscopic worm called C.elegans. Poor old C.elegans, with its measly 1024 cells, pitiful little organs and limited brain power....