Meme Wars (part 2)
Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore
Science & Technology
Natural selection
Steven Gould was a great evolutionary biologist, perhaps best known for the 'punctuated equilibrium' idea (coined with Niles Eldredge in 1972), which has been one of the most influential refinements…
An extremely brief history of time
Dr Jonathan Swingler is head of the Engineering Department at the University of Southampton. He has been a creationist since he was 18, the same age at which he began…
Dem bones
Brenda Maddox on a remarkable pioneer of paleontology
Thinking aloud
Mark Pagel on what makes scientists tick
Not the Natural History Museum: a trip to the Genesis Expo
Padraig Reidy misses a few links in Portsmouth Harbour
Intellectual Treason
Meera Nanda uncovers an extraordinary coalition that is undermining science
All or nothing
John Maddox is fascinated by a never-ending story
Hell is other iPods
Caspar Melville on the loneliness of the long-distance shuffler
Universal Idol
How did a stateless German Jewish physicist become the first pop star of science, asks Joseph Schwartz