Water in Science and Scientific Discovery
“Water in Science and Scientific Discovery”, chapter in A History of Water, Series II, Vol. 1: Ideas of Water from Antiquity to Modern Times, eds Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard. I.B. Tauris, London, 2010.
“Water in Science and Scientific Discovery”, chapter in A History of Water, Series II, Vol. 1: Ideas of Water from Antiquity to Modern Times, eds Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard. I.B. Tauris, London, 2010.
“From Symbol to Substance: The Technologies of Light”, in Light Show (exhibition catalogue). Hayward Publishing, London, 2013.
Entries in 30-Second Elements (ed. E. Scerri). Metro Books, New York, 2013.
“Making Stuff: From Bacon to Bakelite”, chapter in Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, ed. Bill Bryson (HarperPress, 2010). Amazon Bestseller (Sales Rank 56 – at time of writing)
I was an author and editor of the European Commission Expert Group report on Synthetic Biology (2005), available from the EC at Office SDME 01/37, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium.
My article on “Climate change” from the February 2000 issue of Prospect is reprinted in the 2005 compilation Thinking Allowed: The Best of Prospect 1995-2005 (Atlantic, 2005).
“Molecular Biomimetics”, chapter in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (Marcel Dekker, 2004).
“First waves create Nobel certainty” [hah!], Prospect April 2014. Available here.
“Why physicists make up stories in the dark”, Nautilus 6 March 2014. Available here.