A dinosaur spine is one source of inspiration, but the human body also embodies some elements of tensegrity. It contains 206 ...

Our research shows that it emerges in response to what I call the eight wonders of life: the strength, courage and kindness of others; collective movement in actions like dance and sports; nature; ...

There is something comforting about rescuing an old and decrepit object, sanding it down, coaxing it back to life. It’s not ...

People’s lives are being destroyed by messages sent years ago. Are revenge leaks ever justified, and how do we protect ...

Cancer isn't a single disease, but remarkable progress is being made in preventing, diagnosing and treating some types. We ...

Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire (Allen Lane) by Priya Satia Priya Satia begins Time’s Monster with a statement: historians, she says, are above all storytellers. At first ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...

Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

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 ...

Everyone knows about the dreaded curse of the Ancient Egyptian mummy. It became fixed in global consciousness in 1923, when the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, who had sponsored Howard Carter to dig for ...