Opt-out is the best organ option
Unjustifiable moral objections mean that healthy organs are routinely wasted because of the need to opt-in to donation. It's time to change the law. If you don’t want your organs…
Science & Technology
Top 5 myths of Self-Help
‘Emotional intelligence’, ‘inner child’, ‘self-actualisation’ – the language of popular psychology has infiltrated every level of our culture, and persuaded us to let it all out to reach our life…
Islam’s evolution problem
Can Islam and evolution be reconciled? Alom Shaha meets the scientists who are trying to do just that
Darkness at noon, enlightenment at midnight
A brief conversation between two of the 20th centuries most vibrant minds stayed with Bryan Hamlin for over 40 years, but it is only now that it starts to make…
Is the Royal Institution worth saving?
There is a groundswell of support for the campaign to save the London's venerable science institution. But, asks Adam Smith, beyond the emotion is there good evidence that it's worth…
Where am I? What is this place?
You're reading the first post on the all-new RA Blog. Editor Caspar Melville explains what you'll be finding here
Masters of the universe
At the heart of galaxies lie supermassive black holes, which, according to a new theory, might hold the key to life itself. Marcus Chown and Caleb Scharf look beyond the…
Bad Moon rising
Earth’s satellite may have begun life as its parent planet’s stalker, says Marcus Chown
Circle in a spiral
Saturn’s rings stumped the most famous astronomer of them all, but not Marcus Chown
How Darwin took on Intelligent Design
The argument from design is often thought of as the most modern of objections to evolution. But Charles Darwin anticipated right from the start, says James Randerson