How to move an object from a distance
Telekinetic powers only exist in science fiction – and yet, we have recently mastered the art of manipulating objects without touching them.
Science & Technology
One step closer to easy green energy
Cheap hydrogen production is now within our sights, bringing us one step closer to a viable green economy.
Jocelyn Bell, woman of steel
Three Nobel Prizes have now been awarded for pulsars, but none has gone to the woman who discovered them.
Meet the Milky Way
If our galaxy could speak, what would it say? A fresh take on science writing teaches us about the celestial body we call home.
Rethinking the origins of life
Groundbreaking new research looks set to overturn our understanding of the origins of life on Earth
Evolution revolution: New Humanist winter 2022 out now
Out now – featuring Jay Owens on non-human intelligence, Peter Forbes on a new theory of the origins of life, and Alison Bashford on the secret history of the Huxley…
Purple gold
Why did the gold on the ceiling of the Alhambra turn a weird shade of purple?
Close cousins
We now know more about how the brains of our ancestors developed differently from those of the Neanderthals.
Spooky action
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for pioneering work exploring the strange-but-true phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
Programming in parallel universes
Quantum computers could change the world beyond recognition – but will a working model ever be built?