Here is a collection of a few of my personal favorite articles over the years:

• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web, August 2024
• The story of mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading technology in the Covid vaccine race, November 2020
• What Scallops’ Many Eyes Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Vision, May 2019 ^†
• Eugenics never went away, June 2018
• Visual Optics: Remarkable Image-Forming Mirrors in Scallop Eyes, March 2018 ^†
• Scallops use 200 eyes made of mirrors in order to see, November 2017 ^†
• Magnetosensation: Finding a worm’s internal compass, August 2015
• Shape of eye’s ‘light pipes’ is key to colour sorting, March 2015 ^‡
• Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain, January 2015
• ‘Moonshot’ Medicine Will Let Us Down, January 2015
• Microbes: How bugs may be crucial to your health, April 2012
• Coincidences: What are the chances of them happening?, April 2012
• Finding peace in Kathmandu, January 2012
• An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer, September 2011
• Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus, August 2011
• Eye Cells as Light Pipes, April 2010 ^‡
• The Root of Thought: What Do Glial Cells Do?, October 2009

† I once had the pleasure of imaging several Scallop eyes (prettiest blue eyes!), courtesy of Dan Speiser and Sönke Johnsen
‡ Related stories on Müller glial cells