Lifestyle
18 June 2015
Sticky wickets.
World Affairs
25 September 2014
The annex man cometh.
Books
07 November 2013
An aeons-old microbial arms race.
Ideas
28 February 2013
Sparked the Scramble for Africa.
Sci-Tech
27 October 2011
For the past few years, I have been developing methods to exploit sophisticated machines to identify chemicals that may...
Lifestyle
24 October 2011
Our bodies are fantastic recyclers. We take what we need from food and excrete the rest. Our urine and faeces are...
17 October 2011
Archaeologists think that human beings crossed from Eurasia ("the old world") into North America ("the...
Sci-Tech
29 September 2011
The assignment of a headless skeleton to the 19th-century Irish-Australian folk hero Ned Kelly is forensic DNA's latest...
Sci-Tech
26 September 2011
Recently I wrote about research into growing muscle cells in the lab to provide animal-free meat. At £50,000 per...
Sci-Tech
19 September 2011
Over the summer holidays, I took my two young sons (aged nine and 11) to London. To show them that there was more to...
Sci-Tech
09 September 2011
Meat grown in laboratories, some think, might be able to feed the earth's carnivorous hordes without exploiting animals...
Sci-Tech
29 August 2011
Bringing biodiesel to the oil-rich United Arab Emirates may sound like carrying coals to Newcastle. Yet the sea change...
Society
08 August 2011
As a parasitologist, I am often asked about the impact of parasites on man. Major killers such as malaria, which claims...
Sci-Tech
01 August 2011
Public health policy aims to protect society from disease - sometimes, at an individual's expense. One person in 2.4...