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• "You can explain art and love using science, but it won’t tell you what they are like"

  Q&A with geneticist and author Adam Rutherford.

• Origins of our species: the winter 2018 New Humanist

  Out now - featuring Julian Baggini, Angela Saini, Adam Rutherford and more.

• Counting bees, the great CO2 shortage, and the riddle of dark matter

  Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.

• What humans can learn from termites

  Q&A with Lisa Margonelli, author of "Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology".

• What does it mean to talk about "invasive species"?

  Non-native plants and animals can damage the environment, but tackling them is an ethical as well as technical challenge .

• Stellar prophesies: the power of prediction

  Urbain Le Verrier’s discovery of Neptune revealed the true magic of science: an ability to predict things never before suspected

• Time to log off

  Calls to delete Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal raise a bigger question: can we live without the internet?

• Adjusting to a warming world

  The impact of climate change is playing out in real time around us.

• "To understand magnetism is to understand how the universe and Earth came to be"

  Q&A with Alanna Mitchell, author of "The Spinning Magnet".

• Turning light into matter, the science of the gut, and the effects of lithium

  Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.