Prose and Passion

Open Archive Day It's wildfire season in the Northern hemisphere, so a good time to re-consider my feature from two years ago on how n...

the latest issue of C&I contains my review of a book called "What is life?" - sadly not Schrödinger's take on the matter t...

Brazil hosts a pioneering experiment designed to study the ecological damage done by forest fragmentation. After making some real progress i...

So I came across a story about albatrosses and how they are affected by ocean warming, and I wanted to do effects of warming more widely (ot...

I've just finished off the Dvořák sonatina op 100, having played all four movements over the last few months. I love it mainly for its e...

Open Archive Day The ecosystem services concept aims to quantify the commercial value of all the natural resources we generally use witho...

Open Archive Day After several features on threats to coral reefs, including ocean acidification, warming, El Niño, and overfishing, I wro...

There are around 500 primate species on our planet. Two thirds of them are threatened with extinction, because one, Homo sapiens , isn't...

In the round-up of German pieces published in May and June we have 3D-printed aliens, tattooed cucumbers, as well as entanglements of DNA an...

Open Archive Day A year ago, I enjoyed reading up about the late 19th / early 20th century pioneers of bathymetry, or the measurement of o...

as I have been saying since I wrote a book chapter on Molecular Computation (1998), the fundamental processes in a living cell are essentia...

I'm not a gamer so I've happily ignored a large part of the technology developments in recent years. However, they are now reaching ...