Book review: Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio and The Tell-Tale Brain by VS Ramachandran
Can the brain be explained? Louise Foxcroft reads two of the world's leading neuroscientists to find out
Science & Technology
Delusions of grandeur
Information systems professor Ian Angell tells Laurie Taylor where science has gone wrong
Playing God
With Danny Boyle's production of Frankenstein due to open at the National Theatre in February, Philip Ball looks at the timeless fascination, and consequences, of the monster myth
Rationalism’s dirty secret
John Appleby unravels the history of humanism’s dalliance with eugenics.
Two-faced Moon
Photographs of Saturn’s third largest moon taken by the Cassini probe reveal an explanation of its mysterious two-toned appearance, says Marcus Chown
Inside the mind of Scientology’s Messiah
Twenty-five years after his death, Michael Bywater revisits the sacred texts of the pulp science writer turned prophet L Ron Hubbard
Science, God’s Philosophers and the Dark Ages
The claims made by James Hannam regarding the birth of modern science in the Middle Ages do not stand up to scrutiny, says Charles Freeman
Q&A: Harry Kroto
Nobel-prize winning chemist Harry Kroto talks Buckyballs and belief
In defence of God’s Philosophers
Historian James Hannam responds to Charles Freeman's critique of his book on the medieval foundations of modern science, which was nominated for the Royal Society's prize for science books
Heathen’s greetings
They thought it was a joke when Robin Ince said he was going to mix atheism, comedy and Christmas. But, reports Stephanie Merritt, he’s having the last laugh