Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, ...

In every chapter we find the author in a different bothy (11 in Scotland, one in Wales), usually escaping some undetailed ...

From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?

Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press) by Jordan S. Carroll Right-wingers are usually seen as political advocates for the past, associated with ...

Most scientific breakthroughs take years of research – but often, serendipity provides the final push, as these historic discoveries show .

Can the Integrated Education Act help to break the segregation of Catholic and Protestant education in Northern Ireland?

The great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...

The popular association of atheism with immorality is a particular deterrent for women who have religious doubts, since in Arab society they are expected to be “virtuous” in order to marry. “It is ...

The "mummy's curse" in Egypt; "tsunami stones" in Japan – humans have long tried to warn future generations of disaster. Now, the need is critical.

James Bridle's "Ways of Being" and Ray Nayler's "The Mountain in the Sea" aim to explode our tired ideas about intelligent life.

We speak to Philip Lymbery about why back-to-basics regenerative farming would help feed the world's growing population and fight climate change The other form of producing alternative proteins is ...

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...