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 ...

Listen to reason Intelligent thinking for turbulent times, from New Humanist magazine. Interviews with thinkers who speak to our age – on subjects including religion, race, politics, sex, tech, work ...

Samira Ahmed is a journalist and BBC radio presenter.

Have you ever laid in bed at night wondering how you'd run the Catholic Church? Or do you have genuine ambitions of taking over in Vatican City? If so, you ought to try Which Pope Am I?, our all-new ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

A crucifix hangs on the wall of a Catholic school in Warwickshire in the UK (Alamy Stock Photo) To anyone trying to navigate it for the first time, England’s education system can seem like an old ship ...

The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain (Bloomsbury Academic) by Callum G. Brown, David Nash and Charlie Lynch The modern humanist tradition has regularly published books about what humanism is and ...

'It's good to be different' might be the motto of our times. The celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, avowal of identity politics these are regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson ...

Set in the glorious North Somerset countryside just outside Bristol is Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm, a “unique zoo and working farm”. The clue to what’s “unique” about it is in the name – it’s a creationist ...