Philip Ball is a freelance writer and a consultant editor for Nature, where he previously worked as an editor for physical sciences. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and his many books include Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another (winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books), The Music Instinct, Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People, and, most recently, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything.
ARTICLES FEATURING PHILIP
Rethinking the Invisible: Philip Ball’s Historical Account
In "Invisible," Philip Ball addresses the relationship between scientific inquiry and our beliefs about the world beyond our senses....
Scraping off the Whitewash
To what extent should German scientists be castigated for trying to support their country and protect their families?...
