Amongst the faithful throngs, Rory Fenton sings the praises of the physicist Paul Dirac, for whom physics revealed the simple beauty of creation
With his new book Daniel Dennett provides both a valuable toolkit for good thinking, and a reminder that for him philosophy is a contact sport. Caspar Melville meets him
Inhumane doctors in a conformist system. Theodore Dalrymple reviews a satire of the NHS.
JP O’Malley has a family reunion with the geneticist Steve Jones
The Scottish novelist, who has died aged 59, was one of our greatest writers of science fiction, says Francis Spufford
Colin Tudge's attempt to overturn "dangerous" neo-Darwin materialism fails spectacularly, says Craig Purshouse
With its focus on reason and evidence, our parallel assembly goes deeper than jeering and groupthink, says Adam Smith
Commander Chris Hadfield's cover of Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded on the International Space Station, has made him the talk of an entire planet. Paul Sims salutes the good humour of our cosmic pioneers
Our local star is very inefficient, says Marcus Chown. And we should be grateful for that
In his new book the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin calls for a major shift in the discipline and a recognition that rather than a relative value or an effect of space, time is real and fundamental. Marcus Chown explains