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  • One step closer to easy green energy

    Hydrogen is a green source of energy, and it might also prove to be an affordable one.

  • Jocelyn Bell, woman of steel

    How did Jocelyn Bell, despite all the odds, discover the ultra-dense stars we now call "pulsars"?

  • Meet the Milky Way

    "The Milky Way" by Moiya McTier is the story of our galaxy, in its own magisterial voice.

  • Rethinking the origins of life

    Life may have originated in deep sea vents, without the need for DNA or RNA

  • Evolution revolution: New Humanist winter 2022 out now

    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.

  • Purple gold

    Gold is desirable because it is scarce, inert and yellow. Well, most of the time.

  • Close cousins

    A single genetic change may have led to our cognitive advantage over the Neanderthals.

  • Spooky action

    Once we are able to apply the principle of quantum entanglement, we can unleash the true power of quantum technology.

  • Programming in parallel universes

    Quantum computers have the potential to change the world as profoundly as electricity did.

  • The future of spycraft

    If intelligence analysis is to improve, we must learn from our new understanding of cognitive bias.