But Scotland has, in recent years, written itself a new story in which Scottish people are generally welcoming to the outside ...

But these days, while metal at its best still sounds delightfully evil, the metal culture is pushing back against the truly ...

When we discovered the regulators were only testing a few spots on the river a few times a year, we set up a citizen science project, training locals to test the water quality near them on a weekly ...

During riots outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, in response to news that an Ethiopian asylum seeker, Hadush Kebatu, was arrested for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, a group of women appeared.

Angus Reid's new documentary "A week in the Sun" shines light on Cuba's sweeping new rights for women and queer people ...

Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...

Darya Afanasyeva remembers sitting at a sewing machine, in the factory of a penal colony in south-eastern Belarus. In front of her was a round cushion, which she had studded with three pins: two white ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown’s feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...