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  • Natural history of the soul

    Caspar Melville meets the man who thinks that spirituality is essential to consciousness, and science can tell us why

  • Quiz: No eggs/pence spared

    Break a few eggs and price up an omelette with quizmaster Chris Maslanka

  • Cosmic Accelerator

    Six hundred million light years away, the ‘active galaxy’ Cygnus A fires huge quantities of particles at unimaginable speeds, finds Marcus Chown

  • Book review: The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene

    Brian Green's dizzying new book offers a window onto the cutting edge of theoretical physics. Marcus Chown goes in search of the multiverse

  • Free to teach creationism?

    Under the government's education reforms, 15 per cent of groups applying to open academies are religious. How would those schools handle evolution? James Gray investigates

  • Space for laughs

    As comedian Helen Keen’s Radio 4 series on the history of rocket science begins, she tells Matthew Adams why it’s a subject with room for the serious and the absurd

  • Kitchen sink drama

    On International Women's Day Sally Feldman asks is it a coincidence that women are being driven back into the home?

  • Count yourself out

    Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort

  • The god confusion

    In trying to make religion sound more logical and scientific, are educated Indians actually having a crisis of faith? asks Angela Saini

  • Blood and guts

    Dublin Science Gallery’s latest exhibition Visceral crosses the boundaries between art and biology. Owen Hatherley pays a stomach-churning visit