Roger Highfield

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

Feb

CORONAVIRUS: HOW THE UK WON THE VACCINE RACE

How do you know which vaccine research to back when a pandemic starts? Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Kate Bingham, former chair of the UK Government's Vaccine Taskforce.

Feb

Coronavirus: how dead virus can save lives

A traditional kind of vaccine is being readied for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Roger Highfield finds out about Europe’s first ‘inactivated virus’ vaccine

Feb

coronavirus: the one-shot vaccine

Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to the scientist behind the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine that requires only a single dose.

Feb

COVID-19: A SYMPTOM OF GAIA’S SICKNESS?

Before James Lovelock's event at the Manchester Science Festival, Science Museum Group's Science Director Roger Highfield talks to him about Gaia, his work in Manchester and climate change.

Feb

coronavirus: the global covid19 observatory

For the first time, scientists can see a pandemic evolve in real time at the genetic level, revealing ‘variants of concern’ while guarding for large-scale genetic changes in COVID-19

Jan

coronavirus:rise of the mutants

Mutant versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have set off alarms worldwide. Science Director Roger Highfield talks to one of the laboratories racing to find out what these variants mean

Jan

Coronavirus: the climate connection

The pandemic has led to the steepest slowdown in human activity since the Second World War. Science Director, Roger Highfield, asks what this means for climate change

Jan

Dame Margaret Weston obituary

First female director of a national museum who broke new ground by taking cultural treasures to the entire country

Jan

Light-based quantum computer takes minutes to do a 2.5 billion year task

Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses the latest milestone in quantum computing with Prof Chao-Yang Lu

Dec

CORONAVIRUS: RNA TO THE RESCUE

The UK is the first country to give temporary authorisation to the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. Roger Highfield, Science Director, talks to Dr Berkeley Phillips, UK Medical Director of Pfizer.

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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.