Roger Highfield

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

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.

Aug

How to fix a broken planet: AI finds most climate policies are ineffective

Aug

A cost effective way to grow meat in the lab?

Lab grown chicken could be produced as cheaply as organic chicken, according to a study published today. Roger Highfield, Science Director, reports.

Aug

Sweltering weather kills thousands, though public health measures make a big difference

Heat deaths are rising as summers get hotter, but would have been almost doubled if we had done nothing to adapt, reports Science Director, Roger Highfield.

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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.