Prose and Passion

The genome editing method CRISPR-Cas promises genetic improvements in crops and livestock without the drawbacks of conventional GM. Regulato...

Elephants have been in the news a lot recently, with two international conservation conferences calling on countries to ban all internal ivo...

As the young cellist has moved out now, I am left to focus on my solo flute work (although there’s never a shortage of jolly company for pl...

As our species systematically reduces the biodiversity of our home planet, many groups of species are in decline, but few have been so compr...

I used to think that dams and hydroelectric power plants are generally a good thing as they produce renewable energy which should more than ...

Rainer Jaenicke 1930-2016 My old professor or Doktorvater, as we like to call PhD supervisors in Germany once the title is in the bag, die...

review of Elena Lappin What language do I dream in? Virago 2016 Elena Lappin (nee Biller) was born in Russia, grew up in Prague speak...

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 ...