Prose and Passion

(For a German version of this entry click here .) I’m still looking for the violin players and viola player in this string quartet which wa...

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...

More than half of humankind is now living in cities, and urbanisation continues to grow. So in my contribution to last year's special is...

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...

Sexual chemistry keeps species alive but what if it fails? What if a mutation means that suddenly a chemical signal fails to find a receptor...

As a former ribosome researcher, I tend to obsess about the tail end of the RNA world (the early phase of evolution when life used only RNA,...

I recently visited Wuppertal to look at the places where our family cello Heinrich (and its eponymous owner) lived a century ago, in what w...

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...

That awkward moment when I need to cite my own article from five months ago and find I have neither saved the PDF nor referenced it on the b...

As the UK is now steaming into a second Covid wave, I'm getting the opportunity to learn another Bach suite. In mid September, I complet...

Today's issue of Current Biology includes a special section "The Microbial World". My contribution to the section looks into ...