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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, 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.
  • 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.
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