Science & Technology

To tell the truth

Is belief in religion and belief in science the same kind of thing, asks philosopher Daniel Dennett

The Science of Fiction

What is science fiction, asks Bo Fowler

Editorial: Simply Human

It may have come as something to a shock to Darwin's contemporaries to be told that we're really just animals.

Diary: Darwin’s heaven

AC Grayling comes face to face with evolution in the Galapagos

The story so far: Laurie Taylor interviews Michael Frayn

Counting, categorising, complexity. Michael Frayn offers Laurie Taylor his version of the human condition

The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies

Peter Woit reviews the latest book from astrophysicist Paul Davies

Rationalism in the South

Richard Leakey on African rationalism