The creation of global mushroom maps is unearthing new species and teaching us how they support Earth’s ecosystem ...

As big questions go, you can’t get much bigger than “What is the meaning of life?” It is a question that is often modified ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt ...

The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Oxford University Press) by Nick Spencer and Hannah ...

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

The religious culture wars have a new battleground. Is male circumcision a harmless ethnic signifier or the infliction of genuine harm on a child? Toby Lichtig reports Every so often, a piece of ...

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 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 ...

Historian Jonathan Israel's magisterial three-volume history of the 'Radical Enlightenment' is the intellectual version of a JCB, ripping up the terrain around him. Kenan Malik follows him down the ...

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

Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, in principle they can use this information to figure out the shape of the ...

A new book challenges the idea that modern science gave birth to unbelief, tracing it back to the Greeks and Romans.