Quiz: No eggs/pence spared
Break a few eggs and price up an omelette with quizmaster Chris Maslanka
Science & Technology
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
Things that go bump in the night
Why do people think they can see ghosts, ghoulies and gods? Richard Wiseman explains