Willing servants
The social industry was invented to capture social life and turn it to profit – and we are all slaving away as its unpaid “digital serfs”.
Science & Technology
“There is no valid race science because race is not a valid scientific concept”
Q&A with Angela Saini, author of "Superior: The Return of Race Science".
Fighting for the future
Asteroid mining, synthetic meat, surrogacy – a slew of radical thinkers envisage brave new worlds. But can we get there?
“Science deniers embrace a double standard of evidence”
Q&A with Lee McIntyre, author of "The Scientific Attitude".
When sceptics get it wrong
There is almost complete consensus amongst climate scientists that the Earth is warming and human behaviour is a key factor, yet denial continues.
Photographing black holes, discovering new antibiotics and the impact of air pollution
Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.
Looking back in time and space
The snail-like progress of light across our enormous Universe essentially transforms telescopes into time machines.
“Life hacking creates a type of tunnel vision”
Q&A with Joseph Reagle, author of "Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents"
“Science says you are not the pinnacle of evolution”
Q&A with evolutionary biologist and Humanists UK president Alice Roberts.
The enormous threat to biodiversity
A major new report highlights the "social and ecological emergency" we are facing.