Publications by Philip Ball

Occult arts and sceptical sciences

A review of Physics and Psychics by Richard Noakes, Physics World December 2019. Available here.

Science must move with the times

Essay commissioned for the 150th anniversary of Nature: 575, 29-31 (2019). Available here.

A lightbulb moment for nuclear fusion?

The Observer, 27 October 2019. Available here.

Artist of deep time

An interview with Katie Paterson. Nature 568, 457 (2019). Available here.

Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on

Nature 569, 601 (2019). Available here.

The quantum theory that peels away the mystery of measurement

Quanta 3 July 2019. Available here.

Quantum jumps, long assumed to be instantaneous, take time

Quanta 5 June 2019. Available here.

Quantum Darwinism: an idea to explain objective reality

Quanta 22 July 2019. Available here.

The many afterlives of Robinson Crusoe

New Statesman, 1 May 2019. Available here.

The new race for space

New Statesman, 9 January 2019. Available here.