Book review: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Andrew Mueller admires Jon Ronson's sanity
Science & Technology
Long road to renewal
The Islamic world needs to recover its scientific spirit, says Jim Al-Khalili
Test-tube truths
Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope
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