Science & Technology

Quiz: A lurgical problem

Quizmaster Chris Maslanka challenges you to sidestep death and defeat the dreaded lurgy

Angela Saini feels at home with Tim Radford

Andrew Mueller admires Jon Ronson's sanity

The Islamic world needs to recover its scientific spirit, says Jim Al-Khalili

Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope

Far from being an atheist straw man, Biblical fundamentalism poses a real threat to British schools

Do we have to die? Biologist Lewis Wolpert talks to Laurie Taylor about the mysteries of ageing

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

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

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