Is anyone out there?
Aliens, Martians, extraterrestrials – how do we find out whether there’s life on other planets? Paul Davies has a formula
Science & Technology
Logicomix: An Epic Search for the Truth by Apostolous Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
Marcus Chown enjoys a graphic maths lesson
Fair game?
350 million do it regularly. It offers levels of complexity and human interaction beyond any other art form. We can’t continue to ignore the cultural impact of online gaming, says…
No brainer
Raymond Tallis's criticism of my research either very stupid or a hoax, says Sam Harris
I am not a God-spotter
Bruce Hood denies he is the reductionist Raymond Tallis claims
In search of the G spot
Is faith hard-wired in the the brain? Raymond Tallis scans some new claims
Head to head
When we heard that Tzvetan Todorov, author of In Defence of the Enlightenment, was coming to London we couldn’t resist getting him together with our very own contemporary philosophe, AC…
How to defend the Enlightenment
A full transcript of the discussion between Anthony Grayling and Tzvetan Todorov in London, December 2009
Bad Faith Awards 2009: Pope Benedict XVI emerges victorious
After a tightly fought campaign, and more than 7,000 votes cast, we announce the winner of our coveted 2009 Bad Faith Award
Digging for Darwin
In our final tribute to Darwin year, Sally Feldman celebrates the life of Mary Anning, the woman whose work helped to lay the foundations for the theory of evolution