Prose and Passion

Tomorrow is the start of this year's Banned Books Week , and the 55th anniversary of the Lady Chatterley trial is coming up in October, ...

The origin of life remains one of the great mysteries that science still faces. One of the approaches to address it is to try building livin...

On the occasion of the first genome sequence of a cephalopod species I've had a closer look at the biology of the 8-legged animals and l...

In my most recent feature I’m exploring the question whether it makes sense to compare psychology of people and dogs - after all the main se...

On the 14th and 15th of September the Royal Society will host a discussion meeting on The Interaction of Fire and Mankind (as of today, it ...

Just two pieces to round up for July/August, covering DNA chain mail and nanocellulose: DNA im Kettenhemd Chemie in unserer Zeit 49, no ...

Learning from nature at the molecular scale is a big theme that I've revisited many times since the beginning of my science writing, so ...

Three years ago, I read Mario Vargas Llosa's fictionalised biography of Roger Casement, The dream of the Celt , both for fun and for rea...

I'm very pleased to report that my book " The birds, the bees and the platypuses " is now available in Arabic translation than...

Thanks to the ongoing revolution in communication technology which now tracks our every move, it is also much easier to track wild animals, ...

Moore's law, the famous (partially self-fulfilling) prophecy that has defined the current technology revolution, turned 50 this spring, ...

... when you could go and lock up harmless people? Well, ahem, don't get me started on the psychoactive substances bill which is curre...