How should we represent humankind to aliens? With Pioneer 10 and 11, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better ...

Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides ...

Two memoirs, from Basra and Ukraine, chronicle the lives of ordinary men pulled into war ...

Historian Jonathan Israel's magisterial three-volume history of the 'Radical Enlightenment' is the intellectual version of a JCB, ripping up the terrain around him. Kenan Malik follows him down the ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

Have you ever laid in bed at night wondering how you'd run the Catholic Church? Or do you have genuine ambitions of taking over in Vatican City? If so, you ought to try Which Pope Am I?, our all-new ...

How can we protect space so that it benefits all of humanity? We asked five experts for their perspectives ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A century ago, European empires dominated much of the planet. Gurminder K Bhambra and Charlotte L Riley ask what we can learn from the past. The British Empire – and the people who lived under British ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson ...