Prose and Passion

Continuing my series on Oxford buskers , here comes Nikki Loy, a jazz-influenced singer-songwriter with several releases and lots of indoor ...

My next book in German, due to come out in September, is a collection of biology stories. Almost no chemistry/biochemistry this time, mainly...

why are people chronically stressed and what can they do about it? I've been looking for answers to this in a feature that has just appe...

La vie d'une autre (another woman's life) France/Belgium 2012 review Marie, played by Juliette Binoche, wakes up one morning and ...

I'm discussing cheese-making and amyloid in my review of the book: Physical gels from biological and synthetic polymers Madeleine D...

Tumblr people seem to like an eclectic mix of animals - red pandas, sloths, nudibranchs and sharks spring to mind. After seeing many infogra...

Continuing my series on musicians I've seen busking around here, PerKelt are a mediaeval/celtic fusion band mainly active in London and...

Last month I attended a fascinating symposium on human evolution at Sitges, near Barcelona. I got the impression that the origins of our spe...

I was recently awarded the GDCh Preis für Journalisten und Schriftsteller , that's the prize for journalists and authors from the German...

I've been following the work of Kevin Plaxco's lab on biosensors made from DNA aptamers since the beginnings, and last November the...

In my new series on buskers I've seen in Oxford, here's a singer-songwriter whose work reminds me a bit of the 1990s (I hope she wo...

As befits the two months covering both carnival and April Fools day, the roundup of German pieces published in March/April includes an equal...