Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cocaine is now seen as bankers’ drug of choice, but it wasn’t always so. In 1955, a JP Morgan vice-president ...

JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist ENTANGLED LIFE is about much more than fungi. Merlin Sheldrake's book wends its way through the most prominent features of modern ...

British biologist Merlin Sheldrake—renowned for his scientifically rigorous and lyrical explorations of fungal networks and interconnected life—is this year’s featured author for The Humanities ...

Merlin Sheldrake has won the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize for Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (Bodley Head), praised by judges for its ...

There is a great, third kingdom of life lying hidden at our feet – that of the fungi. By Tim Flannery There is a great, third kingdom of life lying hidden at our feet – that of the fungi. So ...

The splendidly named Merlin Sheldrake is the son of the maverick biologist Rupert Sheldrake, who famously came up with the idea of 'morphic resonance'. This suggests that all living things somehow ...

One of biology’s enduring struggles since Darwin’s time has been to throw off the hierarchy in which all living things are judged by their proximity to the supposed pinnacle of evolution: humans. If ...