Alex Riley
Science writer, Bristol
Alex Riley is a science writer whose work has been published by the BBC, New Scientist and Nautilus, among others. In 2019, he received a best feature award from the Association of British Science Writers for his reporting on global mental healthcare in Mosaic. He is the author of A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It (2021). He lives in Bristol, UK.
Written by Alex Riley
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Mental health
The seed of suffering
The p-factor is the dark matter of psychiatry: an invisible, unifying force that might lie behind a multitude of mental disorders
Alex Riley
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Palaeontology
What say you, dinosaur?
Did Neanderthals speak? Did dinosaurs roar? And when did birds begin to sing? The soundscape of deep time is coming back
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Evolution
Sexy beasts
Male flamboyance does more than ruffle a few feathers – it helps the female choose a mate in top metabolic health
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Biology
Suspended animation
How a 500-year experiment to revive dormant microbes could reveal the secrets to cheating time
Alex Riley