ARTICLES

In 2009 I began writing for E&T (Engineering and Technology), the members magazine of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). My articles can be viewed online by clicking on their respective titles.

New dawn for photonics investment

All aboard Tornado: engineering a new steam locomotive

Tornado steam locomotive embraces microelectronics

Home help

Towards a less claustrophobic scanning

Book review of The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

A selection of the scientist profiles I wrote between 2006 and 2008 for the Institute of Physics Interactions newspaper can be found by clicking on the following links:
Steve Keevil, Dec 2006;
John Hassard, Feb 2007;
Jim Al-Khalili, Mar 2007;
Pete Vukusic, Apr 2007;

I also wrote an article for Interactions about my visit to sculptor Antony Gormley's exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in London in 2007. Please click here to read it.

Links to articles I have written in 2011 and 2012 for the online magazine Science Careers can be found on my Writing for the Web page.

To read a selection of my 2000 and 2001 news stories from The Times Higher Education Supplement, please click here.

Several of my New Scientist articles are available online (in full to New Scientist subscribers and in part to non-subscribers). Please click on the respective article titles to view them.

Molecular chopsticks, 18/12/99.

Glowing report, 18/9/99.

Buckytube crewcut fuels flat TV displays,14/11/98.

Great vibes from big surf, 31/10/98.

A perfect fit, 29/8/98.

Sensing is believing, 15/8/98.

Sensor in a bubble, 28/3/98. 

Nosy doctor's aide sniffs out disease, 31/1/98.

Forgeries Foiled, 5/7/97.

To read some of my features for Physics World, written between 1998 and 2000, please click here.

Finally, for something lighthearted, you may wish to read "Physics and the single girl", which was published in Physics World in November 1995, and was my first ever magazine article. It is reproduced in the 'A Bit of Fun' section of this website.