As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge ...

The story covers one day in the life of 29-year-old Hedda Tesman (née Gabler), a famously untameable beauty who has recently ...

From the rise of AI to attacks on universities, are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming and discovering new ...

Trump’s decision to slash the federal science budget is hitting hard in the US. There are worries that the cuts to LIGO – the ...

“Do you know what it’s like to live in a tent during Gaza’s summer?” Wissam Yousef is asking the world beyond Palestine’s ...

Twenty years ago, John P. A. Ioannidis published an essay with the eye-catching title “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False”. It has since been accessed millions of times and accumulated ...

In the far reaches of our solar system, over 10 billion miles from the small blue dot we call home, the Pioneer probes are soaring into the oblivion of deep space. However, these cosmic messages in a ...

An 1891 illustration of a scandal in France: a mayor and his mistress were accused of dumping a foetus at sea. Credit: Alamy Abortion: A History (Hurst Publishers) by Mary Fissell There is a common ...

The vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...

Robert Prevost's election as Pope brought hope to reformers. But will he push for peace and resist ultra-conservative influence? Pope Leo XIV visits the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

“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 ...

Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, where he is responsible for overseeing the papermaking industry. Mr Lucas ...