Country music has long shed its Bible-bashing image. Today, bluegrass is helping to heal America’s deep divides ...
How should we represent humankind to aliens? With Pioneer 10 and 11, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better ...
Changing My Mind (Notting Hill Editions) by Julian Barnes ...
Two memoirs, from Basra and Ukraine, chronicle the lives of ordinary men pulled into war ...
How can we protect space so that it benefits all of humanity? We asked five experts for their perspectives ...
The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...
The Autumn 2025 issue of New Humanist is on sale now! This issue is all about how the battle over space – playing out unseen above us – concerns us all. In the latest edition of our "Voices" section, ...
Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root. Credit: Dr Yoshihiro Kobae As Giuliana Furci picks her way through the dense, dripping greenery of Chile’s Patagonian forest, her keen eyes are seeking out ...
Our world is experiencing seismic change with the rise of power-mad leaders, spiralling conflicts and climate chaos. At such times, the big questions of life are brought into sharp relief. And so amid ...
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 ...
Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...