Publications by Philip Ball

The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means

Review of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Prospect 7 October 2021. Available here.

Where is the evidence that early pub closures will lower infection rates?

Prospect 23 September 2021. Available here.

Ten million shots a day? This moonshot is off course

Prospect 16 September 2020. Available here.

The secret force revealed by muons?

Financial Times 13 April 2021. Available here.

The day that Dominic Cummings finally came clean

The Article 26 May 2021. Available here.

Herd immunity: a zombie idea and a lethal strategy

The Article 21 January 2021. Available here.

Lighting fires in space is helping us make greener energy on Earth

New Scientist 16 September 2020. Available here.

Science is political, and we must deal with it

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12, 6336-6340 (2021). Available here.

Why England’s Covid “Freedom Day” alarms researchers

Nature 14 July 2021. Available here.

Tiniest Turing patterns found

Chemistry World 14 July 2021. Available here.