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 ...

Carroll’s book is valuable as part of that struggle. Speculative Whiteness provides a chilling analysis of what the worst ...

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

The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us.

Technology is enabling us to retreat from the outside world. But we should resist the urge – for ourselves and for each other Patrons outside a busy pub in the Yorkshire Dales. Credit: Alamy There ...

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 ...

Perhaps for the first time in history, religious leaders have recently started to recognise that religion may itself be part of the problem – not just the religion of others, but their own as well. A ...

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 ...

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

For an experienced mathematician, the greatest equations are beautiful as well as useful. Can the rest of us see what they see?