Prose and Passion

Open Archive Day Science magazine published a special issue on human migrations earlier this month, underlining the points that all human...

A few months ago, I found the booklet about Colombia in a charity shop - but they didn’t have any other countries I was interested in. Col...

Last October I went to an epigenetics conference at the IMB Mainz, and one of the things I discovered there was the importance of KRAB zinc ...

At first glance, my great-grandfather Heinrich Groß (1882-1958), who played oboe and tuba in the military until 1918 and then the cello in a...

Open Archive Day Maria Sibylla Merian died 300 years ago, in January 1717. Ahead of the anniversary, I wrote a feature on the role of illu...

My tumblr blog has a focus on everything bookish, and in this spirit I have also photographed and shared some of the antiquarian books on m...

I have been playing Galician folk music for nearly two years now, and (as Pablo Casals famously said about his cello practice in his 90s) I...

There's no feature from me in today's issue of Current Biology - slight hiccup but normal service resumes in two weeks time. Inste...

Over a year ago, I raved about Galician folk and created a new tag for it, but then I didn't do much with the tag. So here, at last, are...

Open Archive Day A year ago I published a feature on the trend towards a world with 2 billion motor vehicles, predicted to be reached by ...

Both insects and spiders tend to have a bad press, so I collected up some examples of how insects make positive contributions to our world, ...

The revolutionary gene-editing technique known as Crispr-Cas has been embroiled in a patent dispute between two leading US research institut...