Prose and Passion

Open Archive Day Today marks the start of Fairtrade Fortnight in the UK and a few other countries, so I'll combine this with my regul...

My round-up of German pieces published in February (none in January) includes Trumpian chemistry, CRISPR in agriculture, enzymatic Si-C bond...

Lives lost are met with dramatically different responses in the media and in the general public. One child abducted and killed in a wealthy ...

Open Archive Day Many of my features are in one way or another about Homo sapiens - eg how this one species wrecks its home planet in rec...

After all the depressing news of Death Eaters taking over the White House and starting to blow up our planet , I needed some cheering up, so...

Open Archives Day (trigger warning - depressing outlook) Three years ago, I asked in a feature: Will our civilisation survive this cent...

Lakes are sensitive to a range of disturbances from human activities, from pollution to water shortage. Some are simply disappearing from th...

Open archives day - one of my favourite stories from last year has just been switched to open access. It's about how large animals move ...

I don't do all that many news stories these days, but I did pick up this one from the lab of my old friend and astrobiology co-author K...

After the first electoral disaster of 2016, I wrote a feature warning that the same kind of wave of angry voters could send Trump to the Wh...

I am a huge fan of the Guardian's interactive database "The Counted" which has listed all people who died at the hands of US ...

Happy New Year to all, my one and only NY resolution is to provide a blog entry revisiting one of my features from the open archives on thos...