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TOM McLEISH | My grandmother actually was an important influence on me. She had done a degree at London University in the twenties

LORRAINE DASTON | Einstein’s 1905 article on special relativity is an article that no respectable physics journal today would print

TOM McLEISH | There are distinct signs that the poet John Keats’ Grecian Urn has found its voice again. This is a surprise.

LORRAINE DASTON | If there is one moral to the history of science it is: whatever we believe now, we probably won’t believe

PHILIP BALL | Space science is a long game. NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to send a small spacecraft to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche 2

PHILIP BALL | I’m particularly keen to set science within a wider historical, cultural, and philosophical context

LINDY ELKINS-TANTON | Right now, it seems that all our narratives are narratives of guilt and fear. Climate change. The pandemic. Pollution.

PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author

AVI LOEB | In the Fall of 2017, atop the dormant volcano Heleakalā, in Maui, Hawaii, Pan-STARRS, a state-of-the-art network of telescopes

PHILIP BALL | The writer Philip Ball is the former editor of Nature, a physicist by training, and the author of over 25 books on science

PHILIP BALL | But for me, it just feels like it’s too good an opportunity to waste not to broaden my horizons with every book I write.

PHILIP BALL | Science is special. Its central idea – collecting data about the real world, using it to formulate theories and hypotheses