Prose and Passion

Inspired by the recent news of mutual communication between honeyguide birds and humans, I have had a look at our exchanges with other anima...

Never too late: My musical life story by John Holt Delacorte 1978; Da Capo 1991 After years of troubling the family class at the O...

In my latest feature for Chemistry & Industry I have covered some recent developments in the discovery and chemical analysis of exoplane...

As a non-British EU citizen living in the UK and likely to be affected by Brexit if and when it happens, I've had to spend a few weeks ...

My latest feature is about deforestation in Eastern Europe - of the legal kind in Poland and of the illegal kind in Romania. Oh, and I also ...

today's issue of Current Biology includes a special section on the "Biology of Death". My contribution was inspired by the rec...

You might say my articles about science are all weird, but now I have one that actually appeared under the title Weird science, and that...

From my family history , I know that people in centuries past have found great opportunity in new homelands, but the crucial thing is to kno...

It’s very exciting news that an intercity cycle highway is being built in the Ruhr area, Germany. I think this will save a huge number of ca...

I have covered the growing danger to coral reefs a few times in my articles, but this time round I'm going one step further and focusing...

Alexander Calvelli 's latest exhibition, Schmelzpunkte (melting points) opens today at Henrichshütte Hattingen, Germany. It runs until ...

In the roundup of German pieces published in June, we have biotechnological uses of algae, burning barbecues, hydrogen bonds, and circadian ...