First published in CommUnicate issue 318

Ian Stewart, Institute of Mathematics, was recently awarded a Syngenta ABSW Science Writer's Award, given for the best feature on a science subject in a specialist periodical for his article: Ride the Celestial Subway published in New Scientist on 25 March 2006.

The Association of British Scientist Writers (ABSW) exists to help those who write about science and technology and to improve the standard of science journalism in the UK