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- Complex Systems Society Special Award (November 21, 2023)
- Talks and Presentations 2024 (November 16, 2023)
- Science (All of It) in Three Questions (November 2, 2023)
- A Roman solution to Raac’s ruin – is self-healing concrete the answer? (October 2, 2023)
- There’s no room-temperature superconductor yet, but the quest continues (October 2, 2023)
- Why Darwin admired the humble earthworm (October 2, 2023)
- What is a beautiful experiment? (October 2, 2023)
- What is the future of fusion energy? (October 2, 2023)
- Synthetic biology lets scientists create new life forms (October 2, 2023)
- The big idea: should we colonise other planets? (October 2, 2023)
- John Goodenough obituary (October 2, 2023)
- Are human embryo models a cause for hope or alarm? (October 2, 2023)
- From time crystals to wormholes: When is a quantum simulation real? (October 2, 2023)
- Can machines think? (October 2, 2023)
- The Covid inquiry will take a very long time. Is that a problem? (October 2, 2023)
- The Day Oppenheimer Feared He Might Blow Up the World (October 2, 2023)
- What is an embryo? Scientists say definition needs to change (October 2, 2023)
- Most advanced synthetic human embryo models yet spark controversy (October 2, 2023)
- Book review: In a Flight of Starlings by Giorgio Parisi (October 2, 2023)
- Science as culture and the science of meaning (October 2, 2023)
- ‘Embryo Models’ Challenge Legal, Ethical and Biological Concepts (October 2, 2023)
- Human embryo science: can the world’s regulators keep pace? (October 2, 2023)
- A New Idea for How to Assemble Life (October 2, 2023)
- Imperialism’s long shadow: the UK universities grappling with a colonial past (October 2, 2023)
- New maths formula answers long-standing party problem (October 2, 2023)
- What does AI mean for chemistry? (October 2, 2023)
- Can we use quantum computers to make music? (October 2, 2023)
- It’s time to let British scientists rejoin the Horizon Europe programme (October 2, 2023)
- Three years on, Covid lab-leak theories aren’t going away. This is why (October 2, 2023)
- Imagine you could select your future child based on likely intelligence. Would you? (October 2, 2023)
- What on earth is a xenobot? (October 2, 2023)
- The big idea: will fusion power save us from the climate crisis? (October 2, 2023)
- Midwife to science (October 2, 2023)
- Audible cheesecake (October 2, 2023)
- Immunity debt: does it really exist? (October 2, 2023)
- The big idea: could you have made different choices in life? (October 2, 2023)
- How to beat your family at board games with quantum tricks (October 2, 2023)
- The exotic quantum effects found hiding inside ultra-thin materials (October 2, 2023)
- Inside a controversial new idea about consciousness (October 2, 2023)
- How quantum weirdness shapes our universe (October 2, 2023)
- ChatGPT Is a Mirror of Our Times (October 2, 2023)
- Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness (October 2, 2023)
- Economists win Nobel prize for showing why banks fail (September 29, 2023)
- Elusive particle in overlooked article (September 29, 2023)
- Researchers use quantum ‘telepathy’ to win an ‘impossible’ game (September 29, 2023)
- The threat of Covid isn’t over – so why does Britain have a conspiracy of silence about it? (September 29, 2023)
- Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans (September 29, 2023)
- Is particle physics at a dead end? (September 29, 2023)
- DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be? (September 29, 2023)
- The Big Thinker: profile of Nick Lane (September 29, 2023)
- Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder (September 29, 2023)
- Journey of the Mind (September 29, 2023)
- Are mRNA vaccines really a “miracle cure”? (September 29, 2023)
- The virus doesn’t care whether you think the pandemic is over (September 29, 2023)
- How my book on China and water was censored in China (September 29, 2023)
- Will we get a single, variant-proof vaccine for Covid? (September 29, 2023)
- How nature is adapting to climate change (September 29, 2023)
- ‘Momentum computing’ pushes technology’s thermodynamic limits (September 29, 2023)
- US project reaches major milestone toward practical fusion power (September 29, 2023)
- Mapping the micro-universe (September 29, 2023)
- Servant or master? (September 29, 2023)
- What distinguishes the elephant from E. coli: Causal spreading and the biological principles of metazoan complexity (September 29, 2023)
- 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 (September 29, 2023)
- What the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about science, policy and society (September 29, 2023)
- Water activity in Venus’s uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres (September 29, 2023)
- Reviews: HOW LIFE WORKS: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (August 15, 2023)
- Reviews: BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science (July 2, 2023)
- Reviews: THE BEAUTY OF CHEMISTRY: Art, Wonder, and Science (May 17, 2023)
- Awards and Appointments received by Philip Ball (May 13, 2023)
- Talks and Presentations 2023 (May 10, 2023)
- HOW LIFE WORKS: A User’s Guide to the New Biology (May 10, 2023)
- The Burning Question (May 10, 2023)
- Led by the Science (May 10, 2023)
- Reviews: THE BOOK OF MINDS: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens (May 10, 2023)
- BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science (May 10, 2023)
- THE MODERN MYTHS: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination (May 10, 2023)
- Reviews: BEYOND WEIRD: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics Is Different (May 10, 2023)
- Reviews: THE MODERN MYTHS: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination (May 10, 2023)
- 20 years of Nature Materials (September 17, 2022)
- The chase for fusion energy (February 18, 2022)
- The unsung theory (February 18, 2022)
- Biologist rethink the logic behind cells’ molecular signals (February 18, 2022)
- How big can the quantum world be? (February 18, 2022)
- First quantum computer to pack 100 qubits enters crowded race (February 18, 2022)
- Bullying and harassment are rife in astronomy, poll suggests (February 18, 2022)
- Surprise dip in UK Covid cases baffles researchers (February 18, 2022)
- Nobel-winning ‘natural experiments’ approach made economics more robust (February 18, 2022)
- Major quantum computing strategy suffers serious setbacks (February 18, 2022)
- Not everything that can happen does happen (February 18, 2022)
- Why free will is beyond physics (February 18, 2022)
- The past and present dangers of eugenics (February 17, 2022)
- Should animals have the same rights as humans? (February 17, 2022)
- Homo imaginatus (February 17, 2022)
- Reaching for military metaphors won’t help Britain learn to live with Covid (February 17, 2022)
- Muted and deferential, the UK’s scientists have failed the pandemic test (February 17, 2022)
- How dangerous is AI? (February 17, 2022)
- The James Webb Telescope is one of the most exciting cosmic missions ever (February 17, 2022)
- Servant or master? (February 17, 2022)
- Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is it ethical? (February 17, 2022)
- Yes we have to live with Covid – but not such irresponsible ministers (February 17, 2022)
- The battle against climate change denial (February 17, 2022)
- The long shadow of Covid-19 (February 17, 2022)
- The shambolic decision-making process of the vaccine committee (February 17, 2022)
- Should scientists run the country? (February 17, 2022)
- Should we vaccinate under-18s? (February 17, 2022)
- The cost of ‘freedom’ (February 17, 2022)
- Up and atom (February 17, 2022)
- Xi Jinping should take the Zhengzhou floods as a warning from China’s history (February 17, 2022)
- The new wave of gravitational waves (February 17, 2022)
- 20 years after the human genome was sequenced, dangerous myths abound (February 17, 2022)
- How we lost our vaccine advantage (February 17, 2022)
- Replotting the human: the thorny ethics of growing babies outside the womb (February 17, 2022)
- Mixed messages: is research into human-monkey embryos ethical? (February 17, 2022)
- Don’t wait for government – UK scientists should conduct a Covid inquiry now (February 17, 2022)
- Dominic Cummings is right: herd immunity was always the government’s Plan A (February 17, 2022)
- Is Western scepticism of the Russian and Chinese vaccines fair? (February 17, 2022)
- The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking (February 17, 2022)
- Caution over [vaccine] blood-clotting is sensible. Panic is not (February 17, 2022)
- Don’t be fooled: Covid won’t be cured by a panacea (February 17, 2022)
- After the Nobel, what next for Crispr gene-editing therapies? (February 17, 2022)
- Vaccines alone will not eliminate Covid (February 17, 2022)
- The two new vaccines give cause for hope – but not carelessness (February 17, 2022)
- THE ELEMENTS: A Visual History of Their Discovery (November 11, 2021)
- Covid-19: the unofficial inquiry (July 15, 2021)
- Variant B117: what we know about the new coronavirus mutation (July 15, 2021)
- What you need to know about the coronavirus vaccine (July 15, 2021)
- The second lockdown buys us time. We must use it (July 15, 2021)
- The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means (July 15, 2021)
- Where is the evidence that early pub closures will lower infection rates? (July 15, 2021)
- Ten million shots a day? This moonshot is off course (July 15, 2021)
- The secret force revealed by muons? (July 15, 2021)
- Rules of attraction: strange chemical bonds that defy the textbooks (July 15, 2021)
- The day that Dominic Cummings finally came clean (July 15, 2021)
- Herd immunity: a zombie idea and a lethal strategy (July 15, 2021)
- Lighting fires in space is helping us make greener energy on Earth (July 15, 2021)
- Science is political, and we must deal with it (July 15, 2021)
- Why England’s Covid “Freedom Day” alarms researchers (July 15, 2021)
- Tiniest Turing patterns found (July 15, 2021)
- Race to understand Sars-CoV-2 variants (July 15, 2021)
- Learning from the impossible (July 15, 2021)
- The lightning-fast quest for Covid vaccines (July 15, 2021)
- The CRISPR wars (July 15, 2021)
- THE BEAUTY OF CHEMISTRY: Art, Wonder, and Science (May 25, 2021)
- THE BOOK OF MINDS: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens (May 25, 2021)
- On physics and free will (January 5, 2021)
- Life with purpose: the need for a theory of agency (November 16, 2020)
- Ten lessons of the pandemic (November 16, 2020)
- Einstein and Nazi physics (September 11, 2020)
- Are aliens hiding in plain sight? (September 11, 2020)
- Has England learnt any lessons from the first wave of coronavirus? (September 11, 2020)
- Pandemic science and politics (September 11, 2020)
- Primary sources: A natural history of the artist’s palette (September 11, 2020)
- The government must respect the autonomy of science (September 11, 2020)
- The dangerous legacy of the Cummings affair (September 11, 2020)
- The statues wars, and Nazis on the moon (September 11, 2020)
- A clue to one of the greatest unexplained mysteries in physics (September 11, 2020)
- The epic battle aganist coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories (September 11, 2020)
- Anti-vaccine movement could undermine efforts to end coronavirus pandemic (September 11, 2020)
- How mask-wearing became a new culture war (September 11, 2020)
- The gene delusion (September 11, 2020)
- The silence of the chief scientists is worrying and deeply political (September 11, 2020)
- Would an earlier lockdown have halved the death toll? (September 11, 2020)
- The quest for materials solutions to the coronavirus pandemic (September 11, 2020)
- Materials advances result from study of cold fusion (September 11, 2020)
- Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance must speak out against Dominic Cummings (September 11, 2020)
- Why lockdown silence was golden (September 11, 2020)
- Coronavirus hits men harder. Here’s what scientists know about it (September 10, 2020)
- What exactly is the R number? (September 10, 2020)
- The epidemiology of misinformation (September 10, 2020)
- What can Britain learn from other countries about containing Covid-19? (September 10, 2020)
- Shot of hope:inside the race for a coronavirus vaccine (September 10, 2020)
- Physics and imagination (September 10, 2020)
- Close-up views of tumors reveal a new cancer biology (September 10, 2020)
- Quantum computing: state of the art (September 10, 2020)
- Quantum computing: supremacy (September 10, 2020)
- Why scientists are divided over the UK’s coronavirus strategy (September 10, 2020)
- The legendary inventiveness of Freeman Dyson (September 10, 2020)
- Stigmatizing super-spreaders won’t help the fight against coronavirus (September 10, 2020)
- How astrology paved the way for predictive analytics (September 10, 2020)
- How the Department for Education failed overseas adoptees (September 10, 2020)
- The AI delusion: why humans trump machines (September 10, 2020)
- The universality of music (September 10, 2020)
- How to get smarter about medical intervention (September 10, 2020)
- How a new twist on quantum theory could solve its biggest mystery (September 10, 2020)
- Vacuum airships: just a steampunk fantasy? (September 10, 2020)
- Wormholes reveal a way to manipulate black hole information in the lab (September 10, 2020)
- How do machines think? (September 10, 2020)
- Chernobyl’s political fallout (September 10, 2020)
- Has the chemistry Nobel prize really become the biology prize? (September 10, 2020)
- Human gene editing sounds like a big deal. Is it? (September 10, 2020)
- Genes, traits and the “gay gene” (September 10, 2020)
- Occult arts and sceptical sciences (December 5, 2019)
- Science must move with the times (November 7, 2019)
- A lightbulb moment for nuclear fusion? (November 7, 2019)
- Artist of deep time (November 7, 2019)
- Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on (November 7, 2019)
- The quantum theory that peels away the mystery of measurement (November 7, 2019)
- Quantum jumps, long assumed to be instantaneous, take time (November 7, 2019)
- Quantum Darwinism: an idea to explain objective reality (November 7, 2019)
- The many afterlives of Robinson Crusoe (November 7, 2019)
- The new race for space (November 7, 2019)
- Primo Levi and the other periodic table (November 7, 2019)
- Cooking up alien atmospheres (November 7, 2019)
- Book review: Superior by Angela Saini (November 7, 2019)
- Empty dreams of space colonies (November 7, 2019)
- The hunt for dark matter (November 7, 2019)
- Using artificial intelligence to accelerate materials development (November 7, 2019)
- Seas and seeing (November 7, 2019)
- Color and culture (November 7, 2019)
- Utopian City (November 7, 2019)
- HOW TO GROW A HUMAN: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made (May 18, 2019)
- Notre Dame has always been a work in progress (April 19, 2019)
- Measure for measure (April 19, 2019)
- Extreme chemistry: experiments at the edge of the periodic table (April 19, 2019)
- What is an element? (April 19, 2019)
- Can machines create? (April 19, 2019)
- The black hole picture is an astonishing achievement… (April 19, 2019)
- A stark reminder that physics still struggles with its gender problem (April 19, 2019)
- Does our immune system hold the key to beating Alzheimer’s? (April 19, 2019)
- Neuroscience readies for a showdown over consciousness ideas (April 19, 2019)
- The true story of the birth of the periodic table (April 19, 2019)
- The new race for space (April 19, 2019)
- The nationalistic agendas of moon missions (April 19, 2019)
- Uterus transplants (April 19, 2019)
- A new golden age for space exploration? (April 19, 2019)
- Entries in Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta (December 30, 2018)
- Meet the renegades building a nuclear fusion reactor in your neighbourhood (December 30, 2018)
- Two slits and one hell of a quantum conundrum (December 29, 2018)
- India: a turbulent tale of rivers, floods and monsoons (December 29, 2018)
- What The War of the Worlds means now (December 29, 2018)
- Two sharp teeth (December 29, 2018)
- Genetically edited babies (December 29, 2018)
- Driverless cars and a new type of “trolley problem” (December 29, 2018)
- Does DNA really define destiny? (December 29, 2018)
- Where has all the sperm gone? (December 29, 2018)
- This womb transplant breakthrough could open up pregnancy to all sexes (December 29, 2018)
- Super-smart designer babies could be on offer soon. But is that ethical? (December 29, 2018)
- Reproduction revolution: how our skin cells might be turned into sperm and eggs (December 29, 2018)
- Seven ways IVF changed the world (December 29, 2018)
- Enjoy the blood moon while you can. Donald Trump has plans for it (December 29, 2018)
- Why the Many Worlds interpretation has many problems (December 29, 2018)
- Noisy work in progress (September 3, 2018)
- In search of time crystals (July 2, 2018)
- False memories (July 2, 2018)
- The Galileo space row shows the mess of Brexit in microcosm (June 9, 2018)
- The neuroscience of the Neanderthal (June 9, 2018)
- A gloriously offbeat social experiment in China… (June 9, 2018)
- The government is failing dismally to protect UK science (June 9, 2018)
- The science of fake news (June 9, 2018)
- Sergei Skripal poisoning: what is a nerve agent? (June 9, 2018)
- Frankenstein, a tale of scientific hubris? Don’t be so sure (June 9, 2018)
- The end of reproductive sex? (June 9, 2018)
- Questioning truth, reality and the role of science (June 9, 2018)
- The era of quantum computing is here. Outlook: cloudy (June 9, 2018)
- Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat (June 8, 2018)
- Why two brains are better than one (June 8, 2018)
- Why I’m growing a second brain (June 8, 2018)
- A compelling manifesto for optimism (June 8, 2018)
- A compelling manifesto for optimism (June 8, 2018)
- Carlo Rovelli: physics’ literary superstar makes us rethink time (June 8, 2018)
- Science isn’t everything… (June 8, 2018)
- BEYOND WEIRD: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics Is Different (January 11, 2018)
- How quantum computing will change the world (December 22, 2017)
- Art and science: work in progress (December 22, 2017)
- ART AND SCIENCE: a symposium at the Wellcome Collection, London (December 22, 2017)
- Heisenberg’s uncertain legacy (December 22, 2017)
- Useless versus useful knowledge (December 22, 2017)
- The brain is a musical time machine (December 22, 2017)
- Demographics (December 22, 2017)
- The rare gene that helps one Amish community live longer (December 22, 2017)
- What’s in Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis? (December 22, 2017)
- How the human got his [sic] paintbrush (December 22, 2017)
- The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (December 22, 2017)
- Gravtiational wave astronomy turns a corner (December 22, 2017)
- The time for dismissing climate change as natrual variability is over (December 22, 2017)
- Water is an active matrix of life for cell and molecular biology (December 22, 2017)
- Consciously quantum: how you make everything real (December 22, 2017)
- Luther’s legacy: did a religious revolt create science? (December 22, 2017)
- Your DNA doesn’t write your destiny (December 22, 2017)
- Science Stories – Series Five (September 28, 2017)
- The power of the blackboard (September 1, 2017)
- Quantum theory rebuilt from simple physical principles (August 31, 2017)
- Could a heroin vaccine cure the West’s drug epidemic? (August 31, 2017)
- The school of mum and dad (August 31, 2017)
- Dawn of the designer baby? I don’t think so (August 31, 2017)
- The genomic revolution is coming (August 31, 2017)
- Why philosophers are obsessed with brains in jars (August 31, 2017)
- Frankenstein represents the hopes and fears of every era (August 31, 2017)
- Did Darwin miss something? (August 31, 2017)
- Don’t be sniffy if you smell like a dog (August 31, 2017)
- They came from outer space – and Europe (August 31, 2017)
- Homo naledi: our “decidedly strange” cousins (August 31, 2017)
- Time crystals: what are they? (August 31, 2017)
- Extremes are often the best place to look for new physics (August 31, 2017)
- Forgetting but not gone (August 31, 2017)
- Roger Penrose and the vision thing (August 31, 2017)
- Quantum common sense (August 31, 2017)
- How life (and death) spring from disorder (August 31, 2017)
- Quantum chemistry on quantum computers (August 31, 2017)
- Science and ideology (August 31, 2017)
- Naming the victims of Nazi science (August 31, 2017)
- How quantum trickery can scramble cause and effect (August 31, 2017)
- Under Mona Lisa’s smile (August 31, 2017)
- Decoding deep similarities (August 31, 2017)
- A biography of Yves Meyer (August 31, 2017)
- World of webs (August 31, 2017)
- Authenticity in the age of the fake (March 19, 2017)
- Reviews: THE WATER KINGDOM: A Secret History of China (March 19, 2017)
- Entries in 30-Second Einstein (March 19, 2017)
- Entries in 30-Second Physics (March 19, 2017)
- Shedding light on the dark proteome (March 19, 2017)
- Exhibition seeks to put utopia in its place (March 19, 2017)
- Electric dreams (March 19, 2017)
- Celebrating cohort studies (March 19, 2017)
- Medical hackers (March 19, 2017)
- Can we be better? (March 19, 2017)
- At the forefront of gene editing in embryos (March 19, 2017)
- Man made: a history of synthetic life (March 19, 2017)
- World of webs (March 19, 2017)
- A new system of chemical philosophy (March 19, 2017)
- Radiant realms (March 19, 2017)
- Archive of wonders (March 19, 2017)
- Gone but not forgotten: dementia and the arts (March 19, 2017)
- Anaesthesia: what really happens when the lights go out (March 19, 2017)
- The fifth force of physics is hanging by a thread (March 19, 2017)
- The computational foundation of life (March 19, 2017)
- Roger Penrose and the vision thing (March 19, 2017)
- The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics (March 19, 2017)
- Designer babies: an ethical horror waiting to happen? (March 19, 2017)
- Is the notion of a cure for cancer too simplistic? (March 19, 2017)
- The science of the inconceivable (March 19, 2017)
- We might live in a computer program, but it may not matter (March 19, 2017)
- Asteroids are not the only threat to life from space (March 19, 2017)
- The place where you can walk through the universe (March 19, 2017)
- If not Darwin, who? (March 19, 2017)
- Science Stories – Series Four (January 10, 2017)
- BBC.co.uk (November 22, 2016)
- Make it snappy (November 5, 2016)
- Chartres and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind (October 21, 2016)
- Diffract, then destroy (September 1, 2016)
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: a myth of anthropoeia (August 31, 2016)
- THE WATER KINGDOM: A Secret History of China (August 9, 2016)
- Ooops, something went wrong (June 10, 2016)
- The Unseen – A History of the Invisible (June 10, 2016)
- Science Stories – Series Three (June 10, 2016)
- Science Stories – Series Two (May 10, 2016)
- No result, no problem (May 9, 2016)
- How human sacrifice propped up the social order (May 9, 2016)
- Why physics is not a discipline (May 9, 2016)
- Life rocks (May 9, 2016)
- The Radio 3 Documentary (April 20, 2016)
- The truth about Hannibal’s route across the Alps (April 12, 2016)
- Science Stories – Series One (April 10, 2016)
- COOKIE / PRIVACY STATEMENT (April 9, 2016)
- PATTERNS IN NATURE: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does (March 23, 2016)
- The God quest: why humans long for immortality (December 20, 2015)
- Were medieval magicians experimental scientists? (December 20, 2015)
- Review of MEL chemistry sets (December 20, 2015)
- Why synthesize? (December 20, 2015)
- Throwing the book at bad ideas (December 20, 2015)
- From academic discovery to industrial applications (December 20, 2015)
- Forging patterns and making waves from biology to geology (December 20, 2015)
- On the mechanism for hysteresis of gas adsorption on mesoporous substrates (December 20, 2015)
- The density profile of a confined fluid: Comparisons of density functional theory and simulation (December 20, 2015)
- Structure and adsorption at gas-solid interfaces: layering transitions from a continuum theory (December 20, 2015)
- Temperature dependence of gas adsorption on a mesoporous solid: capillary criticality and hysteresis (December 20, 2015)
- The librational ground state of monodeuteromethane adsorbed on the surface of graphite (December 20, 2015)
- Life’s matrix: Water in the cell (December 20, 2015)
- Natural strategies for the molecular engineer (December 20, 2015)
- The physical modelling of society: a historical perspective (December 20, 2015)
- The physical modelling of human social systems (December 20, 2015)
- Molecular Biomimetics (December 20, 2015)
- Synthetic biology for nanotechnology (December 20, 2015)
- Collective behaviour and the physics of society (December 20, 2015)
- Water as an active constituent in cell biology (December 20, 2015)
- Chemistry and Power in Recent American Fiction (December 20, 2015)
- Water as a biomolecule (December 20, 2015)
- Making Life: A Comment on ‘Playing God in Frankenstein’s footsteps (December 20, 2015)
- More than a bystander (December 20, 2015)
- Concluding remarks: Cum grano salis (December 20, 2015)
- The Importance of Water (December 20, 2015)
- Water structure and chaotropicity: their uses and abuses (December 20, 2015)
- The story trap (December 20, 2015)
- Will ET drink water? (December 20, 2015)
- The trouble with scientists (December 20, 2015)
- Too many worlds (December 20, 2015)
- The strange inevitability of evolution (December 20, 2015)
- Why physicists make up stories in the dark (December 20, 2015)
- Beauty is truth? There’s a false equation. (December 20, 2015)
- Philae is boldly going where no man should go (December 20, 2015)
- The dangers of Disney’s film about Charles Darwin (December 20, 2015)
- Make your own memories: replace the bad ones with good ones (December 20, 2015)
- The Breakthrough Prizes will have a distorting effect on science (December 20, 2015)
- Five ways to become invisible (December 20, 2015)
- The dream of invisibility (December 20, 2015)
- Navigating chemical space (December 20, 2015)
- Lab’s labour lost (December 20, 2015)
- Knowledge and know-how (December 19, 2015)
- The aided eye (December 19, 2015)
- The crucible of change (December 19, 2015)
- When science plays God? It’s only natural (December 19, 2015)
- Scientists got it wrong on gravitational waves. So what? (December 19, 2015)
- All set for chemistry (December 19, 2015)
- Atomic tragedian (December 19, 2015)
- Obituary: Carl Djerassi (1923-2015) (December 19, 2015)
- Silt, dams and hydraulic heroes (December 19, 2015)
- Words into gold (December 19, 2015)
- When the music ends (December 19, 2015)
- Alchemy on the page (December 19, 2015)
- Flowing rivers of mercury (December 19, 2015)
- A fat lot of good (December 19, 2015)
- What is a bond? (December 19, 2015)
- The colourful science (December 19, 2015)
- The chemistry of inaction (December 19, 2015)
- Harvesting heat (December 19, 2015)
- Artistic alchemy (December 19, 2015)
- Forgotten prophet of the Internet (December 19, 2015)
- Forgotten prophet of the Internet (December 19, 2015)
- The hidden structure of liquids (December 19, 2015)
- There is no gene “for” everything (December 19, 2015)
- Roll up for the revolution (November 1, 2015)
- Philip Ball discusses Alan Turing’s research on morphogenesis (October 28, 2015)
- Reviews: SERVING THE REICH: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: CURIOSITY: How Science Became Interested in Everything (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: UNNATURAL: The Heretical Act of Making People (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: THE MUSIC INSTINCT : How music works and why we can’t live without it (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: NATURE’S PATTERNS: A Tapestry in Three Parts (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: UNIVERSE OF STONE: Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: THE SUN AND MOON CORRUPTED: A novel (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: THE DEVIL’S DOCTOR: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: ELEGANT SOLUTIONS: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: CRITICAL MASS: How One Thing Leads to Another (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: THE INGREDIENTS: A Guided Tour of the Elements (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: STORIES OF THE INVISIBLE: A Guided Tour of Molecules (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: BRIGHT EARTH: Art and the Invention of Colour (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: H2O: A Biography of Water (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: THE SELF-MADE TAPESTRY: Pattern Formation in Nature (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: MADE TO MEASURE: New Materials for the 21st Century (May 18, 2015)
- Reviews: DESIGNING THE MOLECULAR WORLD: Chemistry at the Frontier (May 18, 2015)
- Homunculus Theatre Company (May 18, 2015)
- The Crawick Multiverse (May 13, 2015)
- The Saga of the Sunstones (May 13, 2015)
- Quantum Biology: an introduction (May 13, 2015)
- The molecular roots of evolution (May 13, 2015)
- From Symbol to Substance (May 13, 2015)
- Tricks of the Light (May 13, 2015)
- Sublime intervention (May 13, 2015)
- Nature’s Fantastical Palette (May 13, 2015)
- Playing God (May 13, 2015)
- New pursuit of Schrödinger’s cat (May 13, 2015)
- Forbidden chemistry (May 13, 2015)
- Unnatural: The talk based on the book (May 13, 2015)
- Quantum Biology (May 13, 2015)
- Beyond the Bond (May 13, 2015)
- Bright Lights, Bug City (May 13, 2015)
- BBC World Service – Science in Action (May 13, 2015)
- BBC Radio 4 – Frontiers (May 13, 2015)
- BBC Radio 4 – The Material World (May 13, 2015)
- Is it any good? Measuring scientific merit (May 13, 2015)
- A dangerous experiment (May 13, 2015)
- Starting from scratch (May 13, 2015)
- How on earth did we get here? (May 13, 2015)
- Portrait of a molecule (May 13, 2015)
- Uncertainty (May 13, 2015)
- Chemistry in soft focus (May 13, 2015)
- Beyond words (May 13, 2015)
- Facing the Music (May 13, 2015)
- Fear of Music: A book review (May 13, 2015)
- Schoenberg, Serialism and Cognition (May 13, 2015)
- Newton’s curse: New Scientist (May 13, 2015)
- Alchemical culture and poetry (May 13, 2015)
- Alchemy and colour (May 13, 2015)
- 2011 and All That (May 13, 2015)
- Culture crash: a review in Nature (May 13, 2015)
- Philip discusses his book Critical Mass on Radio 4 (May 13, 2015)
- The physical modelling of human social systems (May 13, 2015)
- The physics of society (May 13, 2015)
- The physical modelling of society (May 13, 2015)
- Welcome to the machine (May 13, 2015)
- Putting the nano into nanochemistry (May 13, 2015)
- Synthetic biology for nanotechnology (May 13, 2015)
- Nanotechnology in the firing line (May 13, 2015)
- BBC – Radio 4 – Small World (May 13, 2015)
- Nanoethics (May 13, 2015)
- Nanotechnology in fact and fiction: (different talk!) (May 13, 2015)
- Nanotechnology in fact and fiction (May 13, 2015)
- Natural strategies for the molecular engineer (May 13, 2015)
- Hits, Misses and Close Calls (May 13, 2015)
- Turing Patterns (May 13, 2015)
- The Patterns of Peter Randall-Page (May 13, 2015)
- Pattern formation in nature (May 13, 2015)
- Patterns in art and nature (May 13, 2015)
- Alchemy and colour (May 13, 2015)
- Color Theory in Science and Art (May 13, 2015)
- Colour in art and science (May 13, 2015)
- Interview with The Atlantic magazine (May 13, 2015)
- Colour: Natural History (May 13, 2015)
- The reign of light (May 13, 2015)
- The making of Cézanne’s palette (May 13, 2015)
- Colour and art (May 13, 2015)
- Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour (May 13, 2015)
- Water as an active constituent in cell biology (May 13, 2015)
- Nanobubbles (May 13, 2015)
- Why water is weird (May 13, 2015)
- Seeking the solution (May 13, 2015)
- BBC – Radio 4 – The Cosmic Ocean (May 13, 2015)
- Water – life’s matrix: extended (May 13, 2015)
- Water at surfaces: Nature (May 13, 2015)
- Water in the cell (May 13, 2015)
- Water in the cell: Cell and Molecular Biology (May 13, 2015)
- Materials of the future (May 13, 2015)
- Smart materials (May 13, 2015)
- Smart stuff: R.I. Christmas Lectures (May 13, 2015)
- Introduction to: The New Science of Strong Materials (May 13, 2015)
- A capacity for change (May 13, 2015)
- Reviews: INVISIBLE: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen (February 1, 2015)
- Entries in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (February 1, 2015)
- Supramolecular chemistry (February 1, 2015)
- Contributions in The Science Book (February 1, 2015)
- Materials of the Future (February 1, 2015)
- Life’s matrix (February 1, 2015)
- Entries in Within The Stone (February 1, 2015)
- Molecular Biomimetics (February 1, 2015)
- Climate change (February 1, 2015)
- Synthetic Biology (2005) (February 1, 2015)
- Water in Science and Scientific Discovery (February 1, 2015)
- Making Stuff: From Bacon to Bakelite (February 1, 2015)
- Entries in 30-Second Elements (February 1, 2015)
- From Symbol to Substance: The Technologies of Light (February 1, 2015)
- Nineteenth Century Colour: Chemistry and the New Rainbow (February 1, 2015)
- Entries in 30-Second Quantum Theory (February 1, 2015)
- Die Physik der Gesellschaft (February 1, 2015)
- Fast track (February 1, 2015)
- The Physics of Everyday Life (February 1, 2015)
- Honey, I shrank the motor (February 1, 2015)
- A touch of Frankenstein (February 1, 2015)
- What is life? Can we make it? (February 1, 2015)
- Going with the flow (February 1, 2015)
- Living by numbers (February 1, 2015)
- A new kind of alchemy (February 1, 2015)
- Concerto for mother tongue (February 1, 2015)
- Natural talent (February 1, 2015)
- Genius undone (February 1, 2015)
- Newton’s curse (February 1, 2015)
- Quantum sketches (February 1, 2015)
- Baby boosters (February 1, 2015)
- Life, but not as we know it (February 1, 2015)
- Redefining genes (February 1, 2015)
- Nanoplumbing: more than just a pipe dream (February 1, 2015)
- On the evolution of Darwin (February 1, 2015)
- Stars of the East (February 1, 2015)
- Diamonds are for softies (February 1, 2015)
- For sustainable architecture, think bug (February 1, 2015)
- Harmonious minds: the hunt for universal music (February 1, 2015)
- Notes on the brain (February 1, 2015)
- Agents of change (February 1, 2015)
- Crash-test computing (February 1, 2015)
- Color me blue (February 1, 2015)
- Making a better world (February 1, 2015)
- Model citizens: building SimEarth (February 1, 2015)
- Playing God (February 1, 2015)
- It’s alive, I tell you! (February 1, 2015)
- It takes more than genes to make us human (February 1, 2015)
- Review of The Reason Why by John Gribbin (February 1, 2015)
- Troubled waters (February 1, 2015)
- Is music a language? (February 1, 2015)
- In pursuit of neuroscience (February 1, 2015)
- New pursuit of Schrödinger’s cat (February 1, 2015)
- What it means to be human (February 1, 2015)
- 10 unsolved mysteries in chemistry (February 1, 2015)
- The Critical Scientist (February 1, 2015)
- Impossible reactions (February 1, 2015)
- Nature’s color tricks (February 1, 2015)
- Curiosier and curioser (February 1, 2015)
- Sublime intervention (February 1, 2015)
- Creepy, disturbing – and that’s just the composer: new era of music by machine (February 1, 2015)
- Riddled with irregularity (February 1, 2015)
- The elusive element 113 (February 1, 2015)
- Science fictions (February 1, 2015)
- Don’t expect graphene to perform miracles (February 1, 2015)
- No hurricane tonight (February 1, 2015)
- Pull an image from nowhere (February 1, 2015)
- Small things (February 1, 2015)
- Curse of cursive handwriting (February 1, 2015)
- Making good: the art of repair (February 1, 2015)
- Gene machines (February 1, 2015)
- Scientific controversies: three articles in La Recherche (February 1, 2015)
- Can we build a quantum computer? (February 1, 2015)
- If you were a mathematician, which problems would you set out to solve? (February 1, 2015)
- Machine envy (February 1, 2015)
- First waves create Nobel certainty (February 1, 2015)
- Why physicists make up stories in the dark (February 1, 2015)
- Spheres of influence (February 1, 2015)
- Living factories (February 1, 2015)
- Through the nanotube (February 1, 2015)
- Cosmic beakers (February 1, 2015)
- Diamond curls (February 1, 2015)
- Into the blue (February 1, 2015)
- Take it to the limit (February 1, 2015)
- Supercool water (February 1, 2015)
- Sun traps (February 1, 2015)
- The Self-Made Tapestry (February 1, 2015)
- Holey light (February 1, 2015)
- Pure nonsense (February 1, 2015)
- Running on empty (February 1, 2015)
- Book early for New Year’s Eve 2999 (February 1, 2015)
- Jams tomorrow (February 1, 2015)
- Briefing on climate change (February 1, 2015)
- More Than Meets The Eye (February 1, 2015)
- In the beginning (February 1, 2015)
- The next generation of optical fibers (February 1, 2015)
- Gassing with the gods (February 1, 2015)
- The birth of the blues (February 1, 2015)
- The making of Cézanne’s palette (February 1, 2015)
- Smart stuff (February 1, 2015)
- Seeing red· and yellow· and green· and· (February 1, 2015)
- Sculpted sound (February 1, 2015)
- Never say die (February 1, 2015)
- Market makers (February 1, 2015)
- Is the clean car coming? (February 1, 2015)
- The robot within (February 1, 2015)
- Futurology gets a little more exact (February 1, 2015)
- A vanishing interface (February 1, 2015)
- When size does matter (February 1, 2015)
- Science at an atomic scale (February 1, 2015)
- New horizons in inner space (February 1, 2015)
- Towards the synthetic dragonfly (February 1, 2015)
- Gourmet macromolecules (February 1, 2015)
- Polymers made to measure (February 1, 2015)
- The shapes of things to come (February 1, 2015)
- Getting oneself together (February 1, 2015)
- Diamond films put on display (February 1, 2015)
- Crystals by design (February 1, 2015)
- The perfect nanotube (February 1, 2015)
- Popularizing materials (February 1, 2015)
- Off and on reflection (February 1, 2015)
- Limits to growth (February 1, 2015)
- The material world (February 1, 2015)
- Meet the spin doctors (February 1, 2015)
- Science in motion (February 1, 2015)
- Chemistry meets computing (February 1, 2015)
- Science in culture: Nature’s microscopic art forms (February 1, 2015)
- Science in culture: Mannerists’ monsters (February 1, 2015)
- When priorities collide (February 1, 2015)
- Science in culture: Colouring it true (February 1, 2015)
- A leap of faith (February 1, 2015)
- Science in the galleries (February 1, 2015)
- Molecular movers and shakers (February 1, 2015)
- Let there be light (February 1, 2015)
- Life’s lessons in design (February 1, 2015)
- Science in culture: Dramatizing science (February 1, 2015)
- Tabletop astrophysics (February 1, 2015)
- The positron probe (February 1, 2015)
- It all falls into place (February 1, 2015)
- A dose of Paracelsus (February 1, 2015)
- What a tonic (February 1, 2015)
- Self-assembly (February 1, 2015)
- Chemistry in soft focus (February 1, 2015)
- Beyond words: science and visual theatre (February 1, 2015)
- The physics of society (February 1, 2015)
- Picture this (February 1, 2015)
- Let’s catch some rays (February 1, 2015)
- To the heart of glass (February 1, 2015)
- Portrait of a molecule (February 1, 2015)
- How to keep dry in water (February 1, 2015)
- Ball games (February 1, 2015)
- Utopia theory (February 1, 2015)
- It’s a small world (February 1, 2015)
- Light harvesting (February 1, 2015)
- Cell navigation (February 1, 2015)
- Color Theory in Science and Art: Ostwald and the Bauhaus (February 1, 2015)
- Water, water, everywhere? (February 1, 2015)
- Starting from scratch (February 1, 2015)
- Beam me up (February 1, 2015)
- In the know (February 1, 2015)
- Back to the future (February 1, 2015)
- By chance, or by design? (February 1, 2015)
- The great portrait mystery (February 1, 2015)
- Dr Nanotech vs. Cancer (February 1, 2015)
- Where is there wisdom to be found in ancient materials technologies? (February 1, 2015)
- The beauty of chemistry (February 1, 2015)
- Claiming Einstein for chemistry (February 1, 2015)
- Lavoisier’s legacy (February 1, 2015)
- Putting the nano into nanochemistry (February 1, 2015)
- Does hot water freeze first? (February 1, 2015)
- Chancing upon chemical wonders (February 1, 2015)
- Alchemical culture and poetry in early modern England (February 1, 2015)
- What chemists want to know (February 1, 2015)
- Chemistry and power in recent American fiction (February 1, 2015)
- A dangerous experiment (February 1, 2015)
- The life of water (February 1, 2015)
- Champing at the bits (February 1, 2015)
- Culture crash (February 1, 2015)
- A switch in time (February 1, 2015)
- Collective behaviour and the physics of society (February 1, 2015)
- Painting the whole picture? (February 1, 2015)
- A jump that would prove Newton wrong (February 1, 2015)
- Invisible Revolution (February 1, 2015)
- The click concept (February 1, 2015)
- Meanings of ‘life (February 1, 2015)
- Feel the force (February 1, 2015)
- Diamonds melted inside an onion (February 1, 2015)
- Beijing bubbles (February 1, 2015)
- Designs for life (February 1, 2015)
- Achievement index climbs the ranks (February 1, 2015)
- Social science goes virtual (February 1, 2015)
- Bacteria may be wiring up the soil (February 1, 2015)
- The dune chorus (February 1, 2015)
- Botanists’ blues (February 1, 2015)
- From alchemy to chemistry (February 1, 2015)
- Is technology unnatural? (February 1, 2015)
- The physics of sand dunes (February 1, 2015)
- Feynman’s fancy (February 1, 2015)
- Quantum objects on show (February 1, 2015)
- Proteins unravelled (February 1, 2015)
- How sunlight became a commodity in Germany (February 1, 2015)
- Pauling’s primer (February 1, 2015)
- The science of oil drilling goes deep (February 1, 2015)
- Attack of the killer fungi (February 1, 2015)
- A monstrous tale (February 1, 2015)
- Newton’s rainbow (February 1, 2015)
- France’s nuclear power program continues in force (February 1, 2015)
- A sticky end? (February 1, 2015)
- The chief designer (February 1, 2015)
- Musical intelligence (February 1, 2015)
- The dawn of quantum biology (February 1, 2015)
- Crisis response: The new history (February 1, 2015)
- In Retrospect: On the Six-Cornered Snowflake (February 1, 2015)
- Wind on the lakes (February 1, 2015)
- Chemical history in bite-sized pieces (February 1, 2015)
- Impractical magic (February 1, 2015)
- Algorithmic rapture (February 1, 2015)
- Martin Fleischmann: Obituary (February 1, 2015)
- Symmetry wars (February 1, 2015)
- Feeling the heat (February 1, 2015)
- In retrospect: On Growth and Form (February 1, 2015)
- Reinventing Galileo (February 1, 2015)
- A demon-haunted theory (February 1, 2015)
- Mind as mirror (February 1, 2015)
- What does DNA do? (February 1, 2015)
- Celebrate the unknowns (February 1, 2015)
- The Wizard of Houston Street (February 1, 2015)
- Reviews of Time Reborn (Lee Smolin) and Farewell to Reality (Jim Baggott) (February 1, 2015)
- Hits, Misses and Close Calls (February 1, 2015)
- Love, Literature and the Quantum Atom (February 1, 2015)
- The Invention of Colour (February 1, 2015)
- Fueling physics envy? (February 1, 2015)
- Quantum quest (February 1, 2015)
- The perils of the name game (February 1, 2015)
- David and Goliath (February 1, 2015)
- Four decades of materials developments transform society (February 1, 2015)
- The future of physics (February 1, 2015)
- Crowdsourcing: Strength in numbers (February 1, 2015)
- Can graphene keep its promise? (February 1, 2015)
- INVISIBLE: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen (October 22, 2014)
- SERVING THE REICH: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler (October 22, 2014)
- CURIOSITY: How Science Became Interested in Everything (October 22, 2014)
- UNNATURAL: The Heretical Idea of Making People (October 22, 2014)
- THE MUSIC INSTINCT: How music works, and why we can’t do without it (October 22, 2014)
- NATURE’S PATTERNS: A Tapestry in Three Parts (October 22, 2014)
- UNIVERSE OF STONE: Chartres Cathedral and the Triumph of the Medieval Mind (October 22, 2014)
- THE SUN AND MOON CORRUPTED (October 22, 2014)
- THE DEVIL’S DOCTOR: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (October 22, 2014)
- ELEGANT SOLUTIONS: Ten Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (October 22, 2014)
- CRITICAL MASS: How One Thing Leads to Another (October 22, 2014)
- THE INGREDIENTS: A Guided Tour of the Elements (October 22, 2014)
- BRIGHT EARTH: Art and the Invention of Colour (October 22, 2014)
- STORIES OF THE INVISIBLE: A Guided Tour of Molecules (October 22, 2014)
- H2O: A Biography of Water (October 22, 2014)
- THE SELF-MADE TAPESTRY: Pattern Formation in Nature (October 22, 2014)
- DESIGNING THE MOLECULAR WORLD: Chemistry at the Frontier (October 22, 2014)
- MADE TO MEASURE: New Materials for the 21st Century (October 22, 2014)
- Philip Ball – Science Writer (October 21, 2014)
