Can there be a theory of everything? Dear John 5th December 2000 In your recent book What Remains To Be Discovered you expressed some pessimism about the progress being made at the frontiers of...

John Maddox explains the new science behind Dolly and why the ethical dilemmas can wait

John Maddox explains an important, but scarcely noticed, EU-inspired change to radiation exposure rules

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John Maddox considers how the Wellcome Trust can save Russian science

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The most exhaustive official account of global warming has just been published by the UN. John Maddox shares its anxieties but believes that the committees which produced it need reform

There is no good reason why unwanted human embryos should not be used in research

Recent progress in the fight against Aids shows that throwing money at problems can work

Molecular biologists can now tell us who is related to whom in the chain of life