Prose and Passion

I very nearly overlooked this, as the titles of the paper and the N&V piece didn't really catch my attention, but there is a new sen...

In the current issue of Chemistry & Industry (No. 10, page 30), there is my review of the book: Biocatalysis and Bioenergy by Ching T. H...

The repercussions of Germany's ban on GM maize, anticipated in my news feature on GM across Europe , has made a short update piece neces...

One does expect buses to run periodically and to timetable, but only very few of them display a periodic table. So, after a long wait for th...

I just finished a short piece about the suspected murder case Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), which has a new suspect in the shape of the (distantl...

a few intriguing things I found out in the last few days: * thanks to the new "algorithmic" search engine Wolfram alpha I can now...

My latest news story about carbon nanotube displays has just gone online: Quick-switching carbon nanotube displays When I researched this, I...

my crystal ball tells me there will be two new albums by Shakira out this year, one in English and one in Spanish. The only specific date av...

In the most recent instalment of the Oxford History of Chemistry Seminar , I was intrigued by the story of the "distance problem" ...

In the big jigsaw that is the origin of life, there are two well-researched areas, namely the prebiotic chemistry giving rise to simple mole...

There have been several books recently on the quest for reasons why life is made up of D sugars and L amino acids and ignores the mirror ima...

A while ago, I helped my friends at the school of crystallography at Birkbeck College prepare a press release on their latest research in as...