A Taiwanese researcher has spent a decade mapping out the neurons in a fruit fly’s brain, the first step towards assembling a complete computer model of a complex brain.

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the most influential piece of popular science writing ever published. Geneticist and author Steve Jones has summarized and updated the book for the 21st century

Many people in the secular community are troubled by Bill Maher’s opinions about medicine. Michael Shermer has written him an open letter.

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The late Bernard D. Davis, Adele Lehman Professor at the Harvard Medical School, was a pioneer and a leader in the field of microbial physiology.  Here he explains the assumptions and traditions that underlie the scientific enterprise. His love for science shines through this description of how scientists think and work, how they choose problems, seek answers, deal with ambiguity in experimental results, maintain standards, and understand issues of credit, cooperation, and competition. This paper describes the features of the world of science, and it compares that world briefly with that of politics and the law.  The paper includes broader implications of interactions of government and science.

Oxford professor Richard Dawkins presents a series of lectures on life, the universe, and our place in it.

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People use the same word - God - to convey very different ideas: creator, moral guide, personal relationship and impersonal force. Michael Nugent, chair of Atheist Ireland, debates this at University College Cork.

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A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don’t to be more open-minded.

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