Roger Highfield

Here are a few of my latest articles. There are more in my archive.

Oct

State of Mind: How art inspired science to inspire art

Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses Manchester Science Festival's latest installation with the neuroscientist and artist who created the colourful immersive experience.

Oct

esports boost cognition more than sports

The professor behind a pioneering online ‘brain and body’ study unveils its findings this week at the Manchester Science Festival

Oct

vanishing amazon

Mirella Ricciardi’s photography is a remarkable lens through which to view the Amazon’s indigenous tribes, its ecosystem, and the future of the global climate system.

Oct

Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life

The Science podcast, with Angela Saini

Sep

Aviation can still achieve Net-Zero by 2050, says a new report

A five-year roadmap to help the aviation sector achieve net-zero climate impact by 2050 is published today by a Cambridge University team.

Sep

Half a billion years of climate change was driven by carbon dioxide levels, concludes study

Evidence is published today that human-generated atmospheric carbon dioxide is boosting Earth’s surface temperature faster than ever, reports Science Director Roger Highfield.

Sep

Stephen Hawking: Genius at Work

Roger Highfield and Martin Rees in conversation with Alex O'Brien

Sep

With Gaia Abandon

Review of The Many Lives of James Lovelock

Sep

Revealed: hotspots of plastic waste pollution across 51,000 cities

The extraordinary extent of plastic pollution, and burning, is revealed by a global inventory today, created with the help of AI. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.

Aug

An electrifying way to combat coastal erosion

Electrification is a key component of the energy transition that can also help deal with coastline erosion. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.

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Roger Highfield was born in Wales, raised in North London and became the first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. He was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. Today, he is the Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group. Roger has written seven books and had thousands of articles published in newspapers and magazines. This is his personal website.