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 ...

Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, ...

Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press) by Jordan S. Carroll Right-wingers are usually seen as political advocates for the past, associated with ...

In every chapter we find the author in a different bothy (11 in Scotland, one in Wales), usually escaping some undetailed ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

We talk to philosopher Jonathan Glover about the moral questions at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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?

James Bridle's "Ways of Being" and Ray Nayler's "The Mountain in the Sea" aim to explode our tired ideas about intelligent life.