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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)
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Medical science
    Kennedy is a shot in the arm for the anti-vaccine movement

    The US appears to be turning its back on a scientific consensus that has relegated several diseases to history

    Illustration of Robert F Kennedy at a podium amid flames and burning papers and supporters snapping syringes and cheering
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Environment
    Defining ‘forever chemicals’ is a job for science alone

    PFAS are a commercial hit — that should not play a part in how they are categorised

    Illustration of a politician cutting away the red tape holding some beakers together, resulting in them toppling over and the toxic chemicals spilling out
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far
    Best summer books of 2025: Sport, Health and Wellness

    Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    Can ChatGPT win a Fields Medal?

    New AI models could soon pose a threat to the world’s top mathematicians

    Andy Carter illustration of a team of mathematicians working on one board, making slow progress, with an AI robot on another working quicker and more efficiently
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Royal Society
    Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Musk

    Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

    Andrea Sella talking to a camera in a laboratory
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    Technology
    E-tattoos may tell us about overwork but what about our neurorights?

    As researchers burrow into our brains, our inner lives may no longer be ours alone

    Andy Carter illustration of an e-tattoo on the forehead that can gauge the cognitive fatigue and mental pressure on the wearer
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Medical science
    Curiosity underlies a breakthrough in rare disease

    We must recognise and protect the pipelines that lead from research to real-world benefit

    Andy Carter illustration of two scientists identifying a rare genetic disease among rows of healthy DNA
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    Language and grammar
    Semicolons bring the drama; that’s why I love them

    Neither full stop nor comma, they symbolise a nuance that is disappearing in a polarised world

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  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Science
    If an animal could speak, would we listen?

    A prize aimed at cracking interspecies communication could make humans think differently about the welfare of other creatures

    Illustration of a woman and a monkey talking through soundwaves using a cup and string
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Climate change
    Why are the world’s cities sinking?

    The problem of human-induced subsidence is global, urgent and spreading

    Andy Carter illustration of office workers looking out of a window into seawater as it rises above them and the high-rise buildings around them
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Agricultural commodities
    The resilient coffee discovery that could save our morning brew

    As climate change puts pressure on supply, new varieties are coming to the fore

    Andy Carter illustration of researchers rediscovering a long lost coffee plant hidden deep in the forest.
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Climate change
    In climate science, the US is now a rogue state

    Failing to gather, preserve and acknowledge environmental data means less sight of what is inevitably ahead

    Andy Carter illustration of an eagle pecking at the Earth causing it to break apart with flame and smoke billowing from it
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Agriculture
    We face a looming rice crisis

    The future of one of the world’s most important foodstuffs is mired in a stew of science, politics and economics

    Andy Carter illustration of a pot representing the world filled with rice burning over an open flame
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Science
    How our social structures shape our DNA — and vice versa

    If society is shot through with genetic influences, how should social inequality be addressed?

    Andy Carter illustration of a woman going through the cycle of life, from a home representing her upbringing, meeting a partner, a university degree scroll, banknotes and back to her home, with DNA strands sprinkled throughout
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Biotech
    An ominous shadow falls over mRNA technology

    Once researchers begin wondering whether their government might pull the rug from under them, the damage is done

    Andy Carter illustration of a politician pulling the curtain closed , blocking out the potential bright future in mRNA research and scientific advancements.
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Science
    It is time to abolish daylight saving

    Changing the clocks twice a year does not extend the light available to us

    Andy Carter illustration of a man being flung out of bed by his alarm clock springing forward, while still being tired and not ready to wake up
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Science
    Elon Musk is the fox in the henhouse of science

    The businessman’s central role in threatening American research has sparked protests in the UK’s Royal Society

    Andy Carter illustration of Elon Musk smashing science in front of the Royal Society coat of arms
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Scientific research
    Science suggests we should stop using ‘bird brain’ as a barb

    The gap between avian and mammalian cognition may be narrower than we think

    Andy Carter illustration of a bird nesting in a neural circuit
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    Science
    US scientists must resist Trump’s efforts to tear down research

    It is misguided for academics to pre-emptively self-censor, tempting though that may seem

    Andy Carter illustration of Trump as a flame coming out of a Bunsen burner, boiling away all the rich colour and diversity from the flask above and leaving plain water.
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Science
    Build a global genetic database — ‘stolen’ children deserve it

    The science now exists to help parents and NGOs track down kids coercively adopted in wartime

    Andy Carter illustration of parents and a child reuniting along a bridge of DNA
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Science
    How to solve world hunger

    Averting a tragic mismatch between global food supply and demand requires moonshot ideas

    Andy Carter illustration of the Earth as an apple with a bite out of it
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    Climate change
    Fire and floods: the rise of climate whiplash

    We are mounting 20th-century responses to 21st-century weather

    Andy Carter illustration of a Newton’s cradle, with the central ball shaped as the Earth and with balls either side seen as the world with overflowing oceans and the world on fire smashing into it
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Science
    New neutron science could explain our cosmic leftover status

    The world’s most powerful source of electrically neutral particles may help us understand why the universe exists

    Andy Carter illustration of the European Spallation Source firing a neutron beam and scientists looking up in awe and studying the neutrons.
  • 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.
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