From the rise of AI to attacks on universities, are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming and discovering new ...

“Do you know what it’s like to live in a tent during Gaza’s summer?” Wissam Yousef is asking the world beyond Palestine’s ...

Trump’s decision to slash the federal science budget is hitting hard in the US. There are worries that the cuts to LIGO – the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory – will result in the ...

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 ...

How should we represent humankind to aliens? In the 1970s, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion, lacking a celestial dictator and full of Eastern wisdom. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it's time to ...

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 ...

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, ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. The humanist approach to life is sometimes seen as a very recent thing – the product ...

From the latrine to the loo, the pissoir to the powder room, Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of toilets How would you fancy peeing into a shiny brass tuba – or splashing into the face of ...