Prose and Passion

What's the connection between bird migration, hydrogen storage materials, membrane protein structure, and quantum computation? Well, all...

A round-up of pieces that appeared while I was travelling (and giving lectures) in Germany: Fence protection progress Current Biology 19, No...

All going well, I should be in Leipzig by the time this post goes online (oh the magic of electronic time-travel!), where I'm speaking a...

If this is Tuesday, I'm in Jena today, speaking at the GDCh colloquium. Today's issue of Current Biology (Volume 19, Issue 12) shoul...

If mathematicians were to design trees, the result would probably look a bit like this sculpture: which sits in the parks of Magdalen colleg...

In theory, the UK premiere of the latest movie by Pedro Almodovar, abrazos rotos , at Somerset House , July 30th, should be open to the publ...

It's a cruel world, where yesterday's shooting stars are already today's ashes ... There was an interesting piece on the reversa...

re-emerging from a phase where all my newspaper reading time was absorbed by trying to understand each day how the UK government survived th...

It is always intriguing to compare and contrast how legislation and public debates on bioethics subjects like stem cells, cloning, etc. dif...

I learned some very interesting things at Copenhagen last week, regarding how public debates can be distorted by " framing ". As I...

The Guardian is the best paper we have here, but it still publishes the odd bit of rubbish dressed up as science. On Tuesday 9.6., it procla...

... or almost. The news today is that Oxford students have released a charity calendar with "nude" pictures of, well, Oxford stude...