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 ...

Credit: James Eades via Unsplash Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter (William Collins) by Kat Hill In the summer of 1847, Oxford academic Arthur Hugh Clough, in a slump, travelled north to the Scottish ...

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

London's Soho in 1976 The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life (Atlantic Books) by Hugo Greenhalgh Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in ...

Dawn today is a line of apricot beyond the trees. It starts as a smudge behind Credenhill, the silhouettes of pines sketching themselves in. The valley seems sunk in half-light, without birdsong. But ...

Stephen Fry is an actor, comedian, writer and presenter. He is also a patron of Humanists UK and a vocal advocate for mental health. Why is uncertainty an important intellectual value to you? I’m very ...

Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing Labour has tied itself in knots over the two-child benefit cap. Credit: Alamy ...

Is there a narcissist in your life? It’s the question posed time and again across countless books, websites and social media posts. How to spot a narcissist, how to handle them, what they want – the ...

A groundbreaking device extracts the "white gold" passivelyBlog By Mark Lorch , Tuesday, 25th February 2025 Can we make lithium extraction greener?

Democracy observers were dismayed in January when Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads – announced that it would be ditching its fact-checking system. The company had previously ...