Anjana Ahuja

London

Writing mostly science, mostly for @FT. Wrote Spike w/ @JeremyFarrar, Shortlisted 2022 @TheOrwellPrize & @RoyalSociety Book Prize. Never knowingly underbold.

Articles

Best summer books of 2025: Sport, Health and Wellness

1 week ago | ft.com | Simon Kuper |Anjana Ahuja

Sport by simon kuper The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay by Christopher Clarey (John Murray/Grand Central) A veteran...
Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Michael Peel |Anjana Ahuja

A former winner of the Royal Society’s prestigious Michael Faraday Prize has returned the award over its failure to take stronger action...
E-tattoos may tell us about overwork but what about our neurorights?

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Anjana Ahuja

The writer is a science commentator Many of us crave that cognitive sweet spot: having enough mental stimulation at work to keep us...
Curiosity underlies a breakthrough in rare disease

1 month ago | ft.com | Anjana Ahuja

The writer is a science commentator The news this month of a medical first — an infant receiving personalised gene therapy for a...
Semicolons bring the drama; that’s why I love them

1 month ago | ft.com | Anjana Ahuja

The writer is a science commentatorThe slow demise of the semicolon is devastating; there is no punctuation mark quite like it.
If an animal could speak, would we listen?

1 month ago | ft.com | Anjana Ahuja

The writer is a science commentator Mention Dr Dolittle, and it is impossible not to hum the film’s Oscar-winning ditty written by Leslie...
Why are the world’s cities sinking?

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Anjana Ahuja

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Why are the world’s cities sinking?

1 month ago | ft.com | Anjana Ahuja

The writer is a science commentatorHouston, as the saying nearly goes, has a problem.
Commentary: The resilient coffee discovery that could save our morning brew

1 month ago | channelnewsasia.com | Anjana Ahuja

LONDON: It was the yellowing label on an ancient jar of coffee beans tucked away in a herbarium that caught the eye of Aaron Davis, a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The label noted that the beans had been cultivated in the lowlands of Sierra Leone. That stood out: coffee is usually a highland crop, favouring cool, moist conditions.
The resilient coffee discovery that could save our morning brew

1 month ago | ft.com | Anjana Ahuja

The writer is a science commentator It was the yellowing label on an ancient jar of coffee beans tucked away in a herbarium that caught...