Philip Ball - Science writer

“Making good: the art of repair”, Aeon 29 May 2013. Available here.

“Curse of cursive handwriting”, Prospect, March 2013. Available here.

“Small things”, Aeon 15 February 2013. Available here.

“Pull an image from nowhere”, New Scientist 5 February 2013. Available here.

P. Ball, "Concluding remarks: Cum grano salis", Faraday Discussions 160, 405-414 (2013).

P. Ball, "More than a bystander", Nature 478, 467-468 (2011). Available here.

P. Ball, "Making Life: A Comment on 'Playing God in Frankenstein's footsteps: Synthetic Biology and the Meaning of Life' by Henk van den Belt (2009)", Nanoethics 4, 129-132 (2010).

P. Ball, "Water as a biomolecule", ChemPhysChem 9, 2677-2685 (2009)

"Making Stuff: From Bacon to Bakelite", chapter in "Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society", ed Bill Bryson (HarperPress, 2010). Amazon Bestseller (Sales Rank 56 - at time of writing)

"Water in Science and Scientific Discovery", chapter in "A History of Water, Series II, Vol. 1: Ideas of Water from Antiquity to Modern Times", eds Terje Tvedt & Terje Oestigaard. I.B. Tauris, London, 2010.

I was an author and editor of the European Commission Expert Group report on Synthetic Biology (2005), available from the EC at Office SDME 01/37, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium.

My article on "Climate change" from the February 2000 issue of Prospect is reprinted in the 2005 compilation "Thinking Allowed: The Best of Prospect 1995-2005" (Atlantic, 2005).