Publications by Philip Ball - General
Occult arts and sceptical sciences
A review of Physics and Psychics by Richard Noakes, Physics World December 2019. Available here.
Science must move with the times
Essay commissioned for the 150th anniversary of Nature: 575, 29-31 (2019). Available here.
Artist of deep time
An interview with Katie Paterson. Nature 568, 457 (2019). Available here.
Lessons from cold fusion, 30 years on
Nature 569, 601 (2019). Available here.
Primo Levi and the other periodic table
Chemistry World, June 2019. Available here.
Extreme chemistry: experiments at the edge of the periodic table
Nature 565, 522, 30 January 2019. Available here.
What is an element?
Chemistry World, 10 January 2019. Available here.
Two slits and one hell of a quantum conundrum
Review of Anil Ananthaswamy's Through Two Doors at Once, Nature 560, 165 (2018). Available here.
India: a turbulent tale of rivers, floods and monsoons
Review of Sunil Amrith's Unruly Waters, Nature 564, 186 (2018). Available here.
Noisy work in progress
On quantum noise and the source of randomness in quantum mechanics: from Physics World, September 2018. Available here.
In search of time crystals
Physics World, July 2018. Available here.
(I wanted the title to be "... of lost time crystals", but it wouldn't fit.)
Art and science: work in progress
Editorial (with Siân Ede) for a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on art and science, 42, 309-312 (2017). Available here.
#postArtandSCIENCE: a symposium at the Wellcome Collection, London
A review in the special issue of Interdiscplinary Science Reviews on art and science, 42, 395-398 (2017). Available here.
Heisenberg's uncertain legacy
Editorial (unsigned), Nature Physics 13, 1143 (2017). Available here.
Useless versus useful knowledge
Editorial (unsigned), Nature Materials 16, 963 (2017). Available here.
Quantum chemistry on quantum computers
Chemistry World, August 2017. Available here.
Science and ideology
The case of physics in Nazi Germany, Métode 7, 69 (2017). Available here.
Naming the victims of Nazi science
Review of an exhibition at the Wiener Library, London, The Lancet 389, 2182 (2017). Available here.
How quantum trickery can scramble cause and effect
A feature article on quantum causality, Nature 546, 590 (2017). Available here.
Under Mona Lisa's smile
Review of Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting by Martin Kemp & Giuseppe Pallanti, Nature 546, 32 (2017). Available here.
