Greg Graffin, evolutionary biologist and lead singer of pioneering US band Bad Religion, talks music and rebellion ...

Godwin (4th Estate) by Joseph O’Neill. Joseph O’Neill remains best known for Netherland (2008). Hailed as a Great American ...

Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root. Credit: Dr Yoshihiro Kobae As Giuliana Furci picks her way through the dense, dripping greenery of Chile’s Patagonian forest, her keen eyes are seeking out ...

Polar bears may be more resilient to climate change than we thought, but let's not misinterpret the research.

A protest against Trump's perceived assaults on science in Washington DC, 2017. Photo by Vlad Tchompalov via Unsplash Western societies seem to be facing a growing crisis of confidence in science.

Years ago, when I was a student at Caltech, I remember the physicist Richard Feynman saying: “You can know more than you can ever prove.” Never was this scientific intuition used to greater effect ...

Graphene. The wonder kid of the materials world. At just one atom thick, this special configuration of carbon burst onto the scene in 2004 after it was first isolated and experimented on by a team at ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt Greta Thunberg famously told an audience at Davos, “I don’t want your hope.” What made more sense, she suggested, was for ...

A map of the oldest light in our Universe - aka the cosmic microwave background - as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration One of the ...

Mansour Omari smuggled out the names of Assad regime prisoners scribbled onto scraps of cloth. Portrait by Richard Ansett Mansour Omari is a Syrian human rights defender, journalist and torture ...

'The current state of the law means that religious organisations are given government-backed support to promote their views' The charity sector in England and Wales is enormous. Over 180,000 ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics for “aperture synthesis”. This is the technique of using several radio dishes in concert to mimic, or “synthesise”, the ...