The terrifying power of solar flares
Understanding the Sun is not just an academic activity. Our survival may depend on predicting the “space weather” it creates.
Science & Technology
“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".