These are small, ambitious sparks of light placed where someone might notice them. It’s a message from one human to another ...

In 2025, we buckled up for a bumpy ride. With Donald Trump and his accompanying gang of Christian fanatics in power once ...

Why are so many non-religious people going on pilgrimages? I walked to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to find out ...

Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today draws on millennia of history to give us lessons for our own era. You propose that we’re ...

Condemn, c. 1400: Sentence to a punishment, express complete disapproval of ...

We asked five experts for their thoughts on the future of human intelligence.

In early 2025, well before the release of the new “report”, Vice President JD Vance made the agenda transparent. He attacked ...

In an era defined by “fake news”, public trust in institutions is increasingly under threat, along with our ability to discern fact from fiction. In the UK, 94 per cent of people say they have ...

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 ...

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 ...