Tech billionaires harbour an escapist fantasy that, with enough money, the elite can leave behind the messy debris of real life and start afresh, either in the real world or in some kind of virtual reality - hence Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos's space ambitions - writes Douglas Rushkoff in his new book
A new compound, Lecanemab, may hold promise for sufferers of Alzheimer’s Disease.
A team from the University of Minnesota has demonstrated how to use light and sound waves in order to move objects.
Hydrogen is a green source of energy, and it might also prove to be an affordable one.
How did Jocelyn Bell, despite all the odds, discover the ultra-dense stars we now call "pulsars"?
"The Milky Way" by Moiya McTier is the story of our galaxy, in its own magisterial voice.
Life may have originated in deep sea vents, without the need for DNA or RNA
Evolution can happen at the level of species, but also at the level of deep time or the Earth itself. It can also apply to ideas and individual personalities. This issue of New Humanist explores the broader sense of evolution and all its messy meanings.
Gold is desirable because it is scarce, inert and yellow. Well, most of the time.
A single genetic change may have led to our cognitive advantage over the Neanderthals.
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