Ian Steadman is a staff science and technology writer at the New Statesman. He is on Twitter as @iansteadman.

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Deconstructing the tomato: elBulli mastermind Ferran Adrià’s academic fixation with food
11 May 2015
Molecular meals.
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Japan joins list of nations planning on covering the Moon in robots over the next five years
27 April 2015
Lunar lander party.
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PSA: G*m*rG*t* is still a thing; online hate mobs still target women with distressing regularity
23 April 2015
Another week, another target.
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Nasa chief scientist says we're (possibly) only a decade away from finding alien life
08 April 2015
Heady stuff.
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John Oliver gets to the crux of why the Snowden leaks matter: mass surveillance of dick pics
07 April 2015
Junk politics.
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Scientists buried biodegradeable plastics for three years, found it doesn't degrade
31 March 2015
Better to recycle.
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Good news: if you survive the first week of the zombie outbreak, chances are you'll survive it all
25 March 2015
Modelling contagion.
Lifestyle
Mapping the psychedelic brain: how LSD is making a comeback
25 March 2015
Far out research.
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Twitter gives (a few) users a new filter to block abuse
24 March 2015
Filters for the famous.
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Mars' unusual moons may have been created by collision with Pluto-sized object
23 March 2015
Phobos and Deimos.
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This is not a picture of today's eclipse
20 March 2015
Fake illustration on social media.
The Staggers
How can we trust the Lib Dems when they don't know if they're yellow or orange?
19 March 2015
Colour confusion.
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An easy way to generate an opinion on the Apple Watch if you need one in a hurry
10 March 2015
Gadget excitement.
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Gerbils and squirrels, not rats, may have been responsible for the Black Death
24 February 2015
Fleas needed a home.
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Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y
23 February 2015
Biological reductionism in science.

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