We asked five experts for their thoughts on the future of human intelligence.

In early 2025, well before the release of the new “report”, Vice President JD Vance made the agenda transparent. He attacked ...

Without female doctors, women in Afghanistan are being denied medical care – as the recent earthquake made painfully clear ...

Most of those attending the unveiling were grey-haired now; many had come in velvet and glittery outfits. Two women in their ...

Our world is made of stories. From idle gossip with work colleagues to stories of political tribes and nation states, our brains weave threads of narrative that form the tapestry of experienced ...

Shortly after the last US election – of whose outcome I had felt so certain, and had been so wrong – came a moment of personal crisis. I had thought the obvious next step of progress would be backward ...

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.

Greg Graffin co-founded the band Bad Religion in Los Angeles in 1980, when he was 17. Their 1994 album “Stranger Than Fiction” sold more than half a million copies in the US, popularising their potent ...

A map of the oldest light in our Universe - aka the cosmic microwave background - as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration One of the ...