Rather than being permanently entombed in a peaceful resting place, these royal bones were about to transform into one of the ...

The greenhouse effect is essential for life on Earth – even if human activity has pushed it to dangerous levels ...

We meet the novelists behind a new wave of stories exploring the sexual fantasies of midlife women ...

Exiled Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran offers a series of letters to those who, for whatever reason, are displaced ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. Death is a fundamental feature of our lives. Fear of death has been present in most cultures for a very long time. It is a basic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samira Ahmed is a journalist and BBC radio presenter.

It is one of the most notorious moments in cinema – the Duke of Salò, inflamed by the tears one of the slaves is shedding for the death of her mother, squats down to defecate. The act is initially ...

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 ...