The virus doesn’t care whether you think the pandemic is over
Prospect 1 April 2022. Available here.
Publications by Philip Ball
How nature is adapting to climate change
Review of Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Thor Hanson.
The Guardian, 17 Feb 2022. Available here.
‘Momentum computing’ pushes technology’s thermodynamic limits
Scientific American 29 March 2022. Available here:
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US project reaches major milestone toward practical fusion power
Scientific American, 2 Feb 2022. Available here:
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Mapping the micro-universe
Book review of The Matter of Everything by Suzie Sheehy
TLS 3 June 2022. Available here.
Servant or master?
Book review of A Brief History of Motion by Tom Standage
TLS, 17 December 2021. Available here.
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).