Anaesthesia: what really happens when the lights go out
An article in New Scientist, 1 March 2017. Available here.
Publications by Philip Ball
The fifth force of physics is hanging by a thread
An article in Nautilus, 16 March 2017. Available here.
Roger Penrose and the vision thing
An interview with the legendary physicist in Prospect, February 2017. Available here.
The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics
… Well, maybe. An article for BBC Earth, 16 February 2017. Available here.
Designer babies: an ethical horror waiting to happen?
An article in The Observer New Review, 8 January 2017. Available here.
Is the notion of a cure for cancer too simplistic?
An article in Prospect, February 2016. Available here.
The science of the inconceivable
On quantum entanglement, and what it really means. Prospect, July 2016. Available here.
We might live in a computer program, but it may not matter
Why you shouldn’t waste too much time fretting over this question. An article for BBC Earth, September 2016. Available here.
Asteroids are not the only threat to life from space
How space events might affect evolution on Earth. An article for BBC Earth, November 2016. Available here.