Prose and Passion

the ongoing deforestation of our planet is a major crisis, but it's not only about the loss of forest area. The biodiversity is importan...

it is the end of the world as we know it, and it may lead to the end of the world full stop. Children born this year have a theoretical life...

Edison-style incandescent lamps have disappeared from the shops. The energy-saving compact lamps that replaced them are also likely to go, a...

After rapidly developing the second and third generation sequencing methods that make it feasible and indeed affordable to sequence many hum...

Now that our house has become a bit quieter, we’re doing some long-overdue repairs, and while uncovering the bricks and floorboards we’r...

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...