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Anjana Ahuja

Science Commentator

Anjana Ahuja is a contributing writer on science, offering weekly opinion on significant developments in global science, health and technology. She was previously a feature writer and columnist at The Times in London.

She is the co-author, with Professor Mark Van Vugt, of Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why It Matters (2010), on the evolution of human leadership. With Sir Jeremy Farrar, she also co-authored the bestselling Spike: The Virus Vs The People (2021/updated paperback 2022), on the inside story of the Covid-19 pandemic. Spike was shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and is shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize.

Anjana has a PhD in space physics from Imperial College London, and studied journalism at City University, London.

Email Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK society
    Our humdrum A-Z goes back further than we think

    An archaeological discovery in Syria may force a revision of the alphabet’s origin story

    Andy Carter illustration of an archaeologist dusting sand away from a gift tag, enabling him to read the writing.
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Science
    On assisted dying, are we really any good at predicting survival?

    Forecasting the last seven days of life is harder than the final 24 hours; beyond that, things become shakier still

    Andy Carter illustration of a doctor leading a patient into a glowing section of a clock suggesting their time has come, having estimated their remaining time left.
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    The new Republican war on science

    Robert F Kennedy Jr’s appointment is characteristic of Trump’s hostility to expertise

    Andy Carter illustration of Trump sat defiantly on a vaccine bottle, ignoring a scientist and causing cracks to spread through the vaccine.
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    FT SeriesThe best books of the year 2024
    Best books of 2024: Sport, Health and Wellness

    Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their must-read titles

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Should we be fretting over AI’s feelings?

    Companies are racing to build machines that are more intelligent and more like us

    Andy Carter illustration of a production-like row of AI ‘robots’ , with one becoming consciously aware of its surroundings by noticing a butterfly in the light.
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    The Impossible Man — the heavy price of life as a physics genius

    Black holes, space-time . . . Roger Penrose’s work won him a Nobel — but tore his family apart, as Patchen Barss reveals in a fascinating biography

    A view from above of a man in a dark jacket standing on a spiral staircase that appears to descend in ever-decreasing circular patterns
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Environment
    Bringing the fungi kingdom out of the dark

    Scientists are pushing for its unique contribution to biodiversity to be recognised

    Andy Carter illustration of scientists walking through a dark underground world of various oversized fungi
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Science
    Diversity concerns cast a shadow over the science Nobels

    Failure to ensure wider representation challenges the perception of science as a merit-driven enterprise

    Andy Carter illustration of a men flying forward with their Nobel prizes leaving bright trails of science referencing AI and DNA, while women are left standing, hinting at the lack of diversity in the Nobels.
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Disease control and prevention
    Marburg outbreak in Rwanda shows some post-pandemic progress

    It is too early to know whether the prompt response to the virus is enough to turn the tide

    Andy Carter illustration of two scientists working on a vaccine as a virus looms large over them
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Science
    ‘Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life

    From climate change to crime, repositories of good quality information are essential

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Climate change
    A seismic hum signals a new era of climate uncertainty

    An enigmatic sound has shown that the frozen corners of the world are creaking — and in more ways than one

    Illustration of a distorted Earth as a vinyl record on a turntable
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Lucy Letby
    Statistics are still misunderstood in the courtroom

    As the inquiry into the Lucy Letby case begins, experts are querying the use of scientific evidence

    Andy Carter illustration of a courtroom scene mixed with a bar chart, showing the statistics having a large presence in the courtroom.
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Science
    The science of falling in love

    Anthropologist Helen Fisher took her insights out of the laboratory and into online dating

    Postcard with Two Cupids
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Medical science
    Molecular ‘de-extinction’ sparks the imagination

    Scientists’ goal is not to resurrect vanished creatures but discover whether ancient molecules can solve modern problems

    Andy Carter illustration of a zombie hand made of molecules reaching out from a petri dish filled with molecules, proteins and DNA.
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Space exploration
    Water on Mars presents scientists with an unearthly challenge

    Evidence of an underground reservoir is an obvious destination to look for life on the Red Planet

    Andy Carter illustration of a NASA lander opening Mars to see under the surface, discovering a large amount of liquid water.
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Disease control and prevention
    Rising rates of cancer in young people prompt hunt for environmental culprit

    That many of the cancers are gastrointestinal offers clues and could point to microplastics

    A man stands in the middle of red circle amid an even darker shade of red beyond that
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Medical science
    Speedy sepsis test could save lives — but only if health systems can keep up

    The illness causes more deaths than strokes but a new time-saving technology may be able to help

    Andy Carter illustration of a hand holding a looking glass in the form of a ticking clock displaying germs in different colours
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Medical science
    The questions behind the Ozempic baby boom

    There is concern that medications used widely for weight loss have not been tested for use by pregnant women

    Andy Carter illustration of a woman standing on weighing scales
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Climate change
    Supreme Court ruling is bad news for science — and the public

    The overturning of the Chevron doctrine means the opinion of experts will count for less

    Illustration of a giant judge slamming down his hammer, sending experts flying
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Climate change
    The great geo-engineering gamble

    Climate experiments rightly raise hackles but we need to find out whether these fixes could work

    Andy Carter illustration of a person up on a ladder against the sky, spraying clouds above the ‘real clouds’ with an aerosol can.
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Flexible working
    Invested in the WFH argument? Home in on the evidence

    Empirically robust trials are particularly important in evaluating social and economic interventions

    Andy Carter illustration of a person working comfortably and productively from his home environment, while other in office workers around are tired and burnt out.
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Disease control and prevention
    Women have a lot on their Petri dish

    A new WHO survey suggests that they are more exposed than men to superbugs

    Andy Carter illustration of a person standing on a stage the shape of coronavirus in the spotlight
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Science
    A giant genome shows size doesn’t matter

    The new discovery in the south Pacific illustrates the mystery surrounding the code of life

    Andy Carter illustration of scientists as if they were new world explorers at sea, with 1 version showing the DNA pattern being created in the boats wake, and the other as the scientists sailing on waves doubling as DNA helices.
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Environment
    Humans may turn out to be the most crucial ‘keystone’ species of them all

    Consensus about how to define the concept remains elusive among ecologists

    Andy Carter illustration of two conservationists looking into a habitat ‘orb’, with a large starfish clinging on to show the large impact it has. However, the conservationists are peeling back one of it’s legs and looking instead at the overall habitat as well.
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Science
    The epidemic of bogus science

    There’s an arms race in academic publishing between AI, fraud detectors and authorship brokers

    A highlighter pen being used on a sheet of paper covered in text
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