Car Science: moths to neon

November 22, 2024

Hey, It’s been a really long time since I’ve felt like I’ve had anything to write. There’s a 6000 word email about picking nodules out of the Clarion...

Car Science: living and breathing

March 26, 2024

Hey, Let's skip the apology paragraph. Things have been bad. I increasingly suspect they're never going to be anything other than that again. IndyCat died...

Car Science: buckling under pressure

October 23, 2023

Hey, Sorry for not sending a Car Science for ages again. I had this like, vague idea I'd do some video stuff but honestly it's overambitious, this already...

Car Science: school of hard knocks

August 23, 2023

Hey, Here's a new thing to worry about on a Wednesday afternoon: we are probably all a lot more concussed than we think we are. Not in the sense of, say,...

Car Science: dogs die in hot cars

August 15, 2023

Hey, Sorry, I - look, there's no point me even apologising at this stage, is there. I'm just useless at sending this on time. Let's just bin off the concept...

Car Science: Blowing smoke

July 19, 2023

Hey, This is also not the email with a long bit apologising for not having sent an email for ages that's about metamaterials. That's just taking me ages to...

Car Science: r u havin a giggle m8

July 9, 2023

Hey, I have a grovelling edition apologising for why I haven't sent one for ages and going on a lot about being depressed to send at some point but firstly,...

Car Science: 6 minute charging

June 13, 2023

Hey, I just got back from Le Mans, which is why I didn't send Car Science last week (I sincerely intended to write it on my phone and send it because I'd...

Car Science: crash prone

June 2, 2023

Hey, Happy Friday, assuming I send this on Friday. If so, I'll have achieved an unprecedented goal of both sending this on the day it's supposed to go out...

Car Science: actually good

May 31, 2023

Hey, What are the similarities between a newsletter-writing journalist and a 1980s Lada? Well, we're both older than the fall of the Soviet Union and require...

Car Science: gulf edition

May 26, 2023

Hey, You know what's coming up this weekend? The Monaco Grand Prix. Everyone loves a fun livery for that, don't they. A nice Gulf version. We love a nice...

Car Science: Cara Delevingne's Face Mist

May 22, 2023

Hey, Sorry, I know it's Monday but let's be honest: there's every chance I'll forget to send either Wednesday or Friday's edition and also I was gripped by...

Car Science: all aboard

May 17, 2023

Hey, This is only going to be a quick one, which is the sort of stupid thing I say before writing several thousand words and also because I'm still writing...

Car Science: positive energy

May 5, 2023

Hey, Don't say 'it's past 5pm, you clearly forgot it was Friday again didn't you,' say 'why are you sending this on a bank holiday anyway?' Well there's some...

Car Science: ICE cream meltdown

May 3, 2023

Hey, Gosh it's been such a long five days since the last edition, I am keeping up with scheduling just fine. This week's news-ier edition is about emissions...

Car Science: AI road rage

May 2, 2023

Hey, Well, we've made it to another Friday. At what cost. editor's note: apparently at the cost of me realising what day it was and sending out Car Science,...

Car Science: midtown madness

April 26, 2023

Hey, It's this week's news edition which means we get to talk about how everything is unmitigatedly terrible for a few thousand words. This week's edition...

Car Science: spelunking for promethium

April 21, 2023

Hey, I think I said this was going to be about electrolyte but then Cell Reports did a special on metal-organic frameworks and I went down a hole. There's...

Car Science: the sausage machine

April 19, 2023

Hey, Working 9-5: it's a surprisingly aspirational way to be making a living, in retrospect, now that we live in horrendous sprint-grind-crunch culture. Gone...

Car science: word on the streets

April 15, 2023

Hey, Whoops, turns out I can't use the scheduler on Buttondown, so this did not go out! And neither did the Wednesday email! Or the following Friday! So much...

Car Science: pretending to make changes

April 5, 2023

Hey, Firstly: sorry that it's been a really, really long time since I last sent one of these out. I've been trying to take the time to have a serious think...

Car Science 11: cars are making us stupid

February 4, 2023

Hey, This was meant to go out several days ago but then I got mugged so err, sorry about that. Idk why I didn't send it given it was already written, it's...

Car Science #10: devil's advocate lettuce

January 26, 2023

Hey, So, as you might have noticed from the last couple of editions, rather than try and summarise tons of complicated stuff in one go, a lot of which...

Car Science #9: stupidly intelligent

January 19, 2023

Hey, One thing I've largely steered clear of in Car Science, which is occupied with things that have factually been discovered, is autonomous vehicles....

Car Science #8: explosions on the M25

January 2, 2023

Hey, You know what, I forgot to send this for ages again and I wrote most of this a few weeks ago and then I got depressed so just. I don't know. Here it is....

Car Science #7: is anything a good idea?

December 1, 2022

Hey, I've been forgetting to send this again. But, well, when you've forgotten to send something for ages the only thing to do is eventually send it again...

Car Science #6: tentacles and rubber

October 24, 2022

Hey, "I subscribe to this newsletter legitimately," you protest. "It's about cars, not being a total wrong'un." And it is. As always, since I send this on...

Car Science #5: A Whiter Shade Of Pale

October 10, 2022

Hey, It has certainly been another week of time hasn't it. Or well, less like a week. One of my favourite films (ok, one of the only 6 films I've seen and...

Car Science #4: Disco Magnesium

October 3, 2022

Hey, Woo, yeah, doing this actually weekly!!! This will certainly last. Hello from the past, when I wrote this to make sure that it would actually go out...

Car Science #3: poetic (climate) justice

September 26, 2022

Hey, Ok so: my bad. I completely dropped the ball on this being weekly and when I remembered it was much too late: it was bound to happen sooner or later, so...

Car Science #2: Garbage juice

August 29, 2022

Hey, Time for another full edition of Car Science, the newsletter about research I can somehow connect to cars. I'm kind of amazed so many people have...

Car Science #1.5: Sustainable fuels

August 25, 2022

Hey, It’s a bonus edition of Car Science (I know! Already! Sorry) and not to come over all driver-on-a-podium but I am super grateful that so many people...

Car Science #1: toilet humour

August 22, 2022

Hey, Thanks for reading or subscribing to this, the only summary newsletter about the research-edge of car technologies written by a woman with purple hair...