As the automaton-like protagonist, D-503, puts it, “We live in broad daylight inside these walls that seem to have been ...

The first glowing plant was created in 1986, but it has taken 38 years for the technology to be enjoyed in people’s homes and ...

But as porn became more ubiquitous online, and at the same time mainstream culture became more sexualised, porn had to do ...

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This piece accompanies Marcus Chown's feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

Niki Seth-Smith is editor of New Humanist. She is also a journalist and fiction writer.

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...

Of course we should love, honour and cherish our species, says Mary Midgley. But should we have to worship it too? Does the term “humanism” really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, ...

AC Grayling finds that in the work of leading philosopher John Gray, everything is the wrong way round and upside down John Gray is a curious figure whose habitual assaults on humanism are all carried ...

Derrida’s famously difficult thought is often dismissed as “post-modern” nonsense. Is there more to it than might first appear? Illustration by Martin Rowson This article is a preview from the Winter ...

In an era defined by “fake news”, public trust in institutions is increasingly under threat, along with our ability to discern fact from fiction. In the UK, 94 per cent of people say they have ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...