Prose and Passion

Continuing the theme of obscure composers , the young cellist recently played Souvenir de Curis, a piece for four cellos by the Belgian cell...

The Sicilienne by Gabriel Fauré is a popular repertoire piece for both flautists and cellists, but here comes the version for cello and (a ...

Today's issue of Current Biology has a special section on applied neuroscience, and my contribution to that is a feature on depression: ...

I've been following the work of industry painter Alexander Calvelli for many years now (I happen to know him as he's the son of my ...

My latest book in German is officially released today: Invasion der Waschbären und andere Expeditionen in die wilde Natur Wiley-VCH 17. Se...

Graphene - a single layer of graphitic carbon - has caused some excitement in recent years, but there's always the slight inconvenience ...

Let's have a news story for a change, here's one that just appeared in Chemistry World online, on a new combinatorial approach that ...

My latest feature in Current Biology, partially inspired by the recent book Perv – the sexual deviant in all of us, by Jesse Bering , covers...

The release of my third cute-animal themed book is only four weeks away - after platypuses and geckos I now have a raccoon serving as a masc...

I have covered the threats to bees and other pollinators a few times since the emergence of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in the noughties ...

I've reviewed a lovely textbook: Introduction to Carbon Capture and Sequestration (The Berkeley Lectures on Energy, Vol. 1) Berend S...

just two German publications to round up for July/August, a long one on artificial photosynthesis and the quest to make solar fuel, and a sh...