I have contributed a large number of articles to New Scientist magazine, as well as to its website and its popular blogs:
Dance work shows how physics and art Collide@CERN (03/10/2013)
Learning to live off the land – on the moon (20/07/2012)
Hubble witnesses death throes of rare carbon star (10/07/2012)
First female taikonaut: ‘It’s good to stand on Earth’ (29/06/2012)
Is God’s mercy to blame for high crime rates? (22/06/2012)
Lost toad comes back from the dead (19/06/2012)
Wind turbines can cause localised warming (30/04/2012)
Lifting the lid on Schrödinger’s world (04/04/2012)
Nano star fruit could help diagnose cancer (28/03/2012)
Alzheimer’s around the world, through a personal lens (07/03/2012)
Run faster – zombies are chasing you (28/02/2012)
World’s deepest land animal discovered (22/02/2012)
Are you mad to love city living? (21/02/2012)
Martian real estate, windy and cratered but isolated (06/02/2012)
Self-portraits of a declining brain (31/01/2012)
The science of the golden spider-silk cape (26/01/2012)
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey caught on camera (16/01/2012)
Herring galore as tonnes of fish wash up on beach (03/01/2012)
Brand new island rises from Red Sea depths (29/12/2011)
Death-defying comet lights up huge desert telescope (28/12/2011)
UK to make publicly funded research free to read (09/12/2011)
McLaren F1 team goes carbon neutral (08/12/2011)
Health posters show the fine art of persuasion (08/12/2011)
Successful Soyuz launch saves ISS operations (14/11/2011)
Switzerland’s medtech prowess (02/11/2011)
Earthquake hits Himalayas (19/09/2011)
Foamy wakes cool the world, ships don’t (20/08/2011)
Penguins don’t freeze, but they do get very, very cold (19/08/2011)
Brain’s synaptic pruning continues into your 20s (17/08/2011)
Cool technologies for hot subways (10/08/2011)
Multicellular yeast shrug off freeloading mutants (10/08/2011)
Texas and Antarctica were once linked together (10/08/2011)
The year’s best astronomy photos (09/08/2011)
Mathematical model predicts growth of cancer (06/08/2011)
Oil industry admits liability for Niger delta spills (05/08/2011)
To boldly go where no Lego man has gone before (04/08/2011)
Rare genetic mutation explains lack of fingerprints (04/08/2011)
Can spotting dead polar bears add up to misconduct? (04/08/2011)
Moon-showers give Saturn an aquatic belt (03/08/2011)
Superbugs may be here to stay (29/07/2011)
Baked Alaska: Arctic tundra fires set to increase (28/07/2011)
‘Predict your death’ longevity paper retracted (25/07/2011)
Atlantis has landed: Shuttle programme ends (21/07/2011)
Male infertility linked to protein invisibility cloak (20/07/2011)
Somalia: How the UN defines a famine (20/07/2011)
The science of St Swithun’s 40-day weather forecast (19/07/2011)
Large and active: new volcanoes found beneath the sea (19/07/2011)
Space stuff of the future put to the test (18/07/2011)
ANDREW PURCELL 