As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions - "The Family of Man" and "Children's Games" - offer a powerful vision of our ...

My noise-cancelling headphones are one of my favourite possessions. I wear them almost constantly – to listen to podcasts while squeezed next to strangers on the bus, to audiobooks when I’m cooking, ...

From "The Face" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery to "Leigh Bowery!" at Tate Modern, young people are fascinated by ...

In his new book, Jonathan Sumption explores the different components – legal, institutional and cultural – that allow ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown's feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast. Considering the mayhem that was raging nearby – the rioting, bombings and shootings – the teachers did a ...

Buddhism is often seen as the acceptable face of religion, lacking a celestial dictator and full of Eastern wisdom. But Dale DeBakcsy, who worked for nine years in a Buddhist school, says it's time to ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...

Octopuses are having a moment. So are slime moulds and honeybees. Mushrooms are in vogue. After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the ...