Test-tube truths
Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope
Science & Technology
Editorial: Creating confusion
Far from being an atheist straw man, Biblical fundamentalism poses a real threat to British schools
Mortal fear: Laurie Taylor interviews Lewis Wolpert
Do we have to die? Biologist Lewis Wolpert talks to Laurie Taylor about the mysteries of ageing
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?