Rite&Reason: The co-operation, selflessness, love and altruism we’ve seen has shown us sides to ourselves we never knew existed

Remarkably few colleges offer first degrees, and senior university posts are rare

A recent claim about dark matter and the origin of stars is being treated with scepticism. As it should be

How can policy-makers discern between genuine disagreement among experts and false uncertainties raised by commercial interests?

The media and non-scientists tend to underestimate the built-in scepticism of scientists – for instance, it took more than 30 years for the Big Bang model to be taken seriously