No more lies
In his powerful new book, The Young Atheist’s Handbook, Alom Shaha challenges young Muslims to be honest if they don’t believe, and calls on organised atheism to broaden its appeal…
Science & Technology
A risk worth taking
The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima plant raised the spectre of nuclear disaster. But, one year on, it has made atomic power safer than ever. Angela Saini on the productive upside…
Poised on the edge: an interview with Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall is both a top research cosmologist and one of the best guides to the dizzying world of theoretical physics. Manjit Kumar collides with her
Our fragile home
Voyager’s distant photo of Earth should remind us that we’re all in this together, says Marcus Chown
Please squeeze me
Marcus Chown on the hottest body in the Solar System
No argument
In America rationalists find themselves in a new battle – opposing the passing of ‘academic freedom’ laws that allow the undermining of science in the classroom. Paul Sims reports
Quiz: Boggles goes around
A perplexing plane puzzle from Quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Book review: The Dead Hand by David Hoffman
Michael Binyon revisits Cold War brinksmanship
Book review: Evolution and Belief by Robert Asher
Adam Rutherford tires of zombie arguments about creationism
Anything is possible
Stephen Hawking’s childlike glee in overturning assumptions, especially his own, is what makes him such an iconic scientist, says his biographer Kitty Ferguson