Academic Publications

What distinguishes the elephant from E. coli: Causal spreading and the biological principles of metazoan complexity

Journal of Biosciences 48, 14 (2023). Available here.

Lessons from the UK’s handling of Covid-19 for the future of scientific advice to government: a contribution to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry

Susan Michie, Philip Ball, James Wilsdon & Robert West, Contemporary Social Science 17, 418 (2022). Available here.

What the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about science, policy and society

Journal of the Royal Society Inferface Focus 11, 20210022 (2021). Available here.

Water activity in Venus’s uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres

J. E. Hallsworth et al., Nature Astronomy 5, 665 (2021). Available here.

Einstein and Nazi physics

Métode 10, 147-155 (2020). Available here.

The quest for materials solutions to the coronavirus pandemic

MRS Bulletin 45, 609-613 (2020). Available here.

Materials advances result from study of cold fusion

MRS Bulletin 44, 833-836 (2019). Available here. Podcast available here.

Using artificial intelligence to accelerate materials development

MRS Bulletin 44, 335-344 (2019). Available here.

Water is an active matrix of life for cell and molecular biology

PNAS 114, 13327-13335 (2017). Available here.

Chemistry and Power in Recent American Fiction

P. Ball, “Chemistry and Power in Recent American Fiction”, published in The Public Image of Chemistry, eds J. Schummer, B. Bensaude-Vincent & B. Van Tiggelen (World Scientific, 2007).