Publications by Philip Ball - General
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.
Decoding deep similarities
Review of Scale by Geoffrey West, Nature 545, 154 (2017). Available here.
A biography of Yves Meyer
Written for the official announcement of the 2017 Abel Prize in mathematics. Available here.
World of webs
A review of an exhibition by Tomás Saraceno in Buenos Aires, Nature 543, 314 (2017). Available here.
Shedding light on the dark proteome
A feature article in Chemistry World, March 2017. Available to subscribers here.
Electric dreams
Review of Electricity, an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London. The Lancet 389, 999; 2017. Available here.
