Prose and Passion

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

There has been a slight disruption in my filter-feeding of the science news , due to other things getting in the way. Let's give it a qu...

Open Archive Day I've now completed my 8th year of features in every issue of Current Biology. Last year I highlighted the very first...

My paternal grandfather, en route to becoming a science teacher, did his graduation work in chemistry with a Prof. Pfeiffer at the universit...

I have a soft spot for Neanderthals, so it's always nice to see new insight coming out into what they left us, not just in terms of bone...

All our instruments series , episode 7 It appears that at some distant point in the 20th century, I fancied playing the banjo, and being v...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

Open Archive Day Quite a few of the lovely people I meet through music happen to be scientist. For instance, I regularly get to play with...

All our instruments series , episode 6 After five instruments made in Germany, here comes one from Japan and a very special one too. I vis...