Prose and Passion

Having drowned this blog in text, I need to offer some visual entertainment now, so I decided to start an occasional series of things I like...

three weeks ago, I prepared a news feature about the German elections for Current Biology. Back then, the result seemed to be wide open, wit...

in last week's Angewandte Chemie Early view release there is a paper by Achim Müller and colleagues, using his trademark inorganic molyb...

(last edited 23.1.2026) The marriage of Wilhelm Düselmann and Elisabetha de la Strada in 1826 is a pivotal point, as it brings together two...

Jared Diamond's occasional News & Views pieces in Nature are always worth reading. In today's issue he has one about how climate...

The current issue of Nature contains several pieces about astrobiology and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), in celebration o...

... and talking of new buildings, this is the place where "my" lab once stood: For comparison, see pictures from half a year ago h...

I hear that the new railway station at Liege-Guillemins, which I saw under construction this April, see here , has been officially opened ye...

The German edition of my latest book ( Der Kuss des Schnabeltiers ) should now be available everywhere, including Amazon.de and the other a...

My review of Aptamers in bioanalysis Marco Mascini, ed. Wiley 2009 has appeared in the Sept. 14 issue of Chemistry & Industry . I'm ...

review of Luna cornata by Elvira Valgañón Sobrelamesa Ediciones 2007 I discovered this charming little book in an Oxfam shop. It is about tw...

Three years after the first reports of a mysterious phenomenon of bee colonies disappearing without any apparent reason, termed colony colla...