Science & Technology

How gravitational waves were discovered

Einstein didn’t live to see it, but the discovery of the gravitational waves he thought existed will help us better understand the universe.

Our lives depend on the Sun - which stays warm due to mind-boggling inefficiency.

New Humanist contributors Owen Hatherley and Dawn Foster in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly.

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

Once the preserve of eccentrics and cranks, cryonics is entering the mainstream. Is eternal life possible – or even desirable?

Understanding the difference between hazard and risk makes most health scare stories much less scary.

The detection of gravitational waves is the most important development in astronomy since the invention of the telescope.

For a century, scientists have tried to solve the riddles posed by Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Appeals to human nature won’t help us make complex ethical decisions about new technologies like genome editing

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