Dawn of the replicants
Advances in design are creating robots that look – and behave – increasingly like humans. Is that such a good thing?
Science & Technology
The death of the sun
Bad news: we’ve only got a few billion years before the sun dies. Should humanity survive that long, is there any chance of escape?
The Winter 2015 New Humanist is out now!
Should machines replicate people?; What history tells us about refugees; Mary Beard on Ancient Rome; the myth of "pure" religion; what happens when the Sun goes out; and more...
“Don’t waste time on climate change deniers – put your energy into action”
An interview with author and environmentalist Tim Flannery
When was modern science invented?
"All intellectual life is polemic". A Q&A with David Wootton, author of a new book about the scientific revolution.
A breakthrough for HIV, New Horizons, and chemistry’s image problem
Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.
The secret of how electricity powers the world
Mind-bogglingly powerful forces operate in the world around us without us noticing.
‘‘The beauty in physics is the kind of beauty that people have embodied in art’’
A Q&A with Frank Wilczek.
The challenge of blue light, the power of urine, and our evolutionary history
Chemistry, Biology, Physics: Three scientists talk through big recent developments in their fields.
Why you might not want the most powerful computer imaginable
We live in an epoch where computing power doubles roughly every two years.