But you might be thinking, why physics? Isn’t this a computer science discovery? Many in the physics community had a similar ...

With Trump as president-elect, and the populist right on the rise in Europe, will Britain manage to stand its ground?

As of 31 October, buffer zones are now officially in force around abortion clinics in England and Wales – finally protecting ...

David Hendy is a Reader in Media History at the University of Westminster and author of Life on Air: a History of Radio Four (OUP) ...

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On a train recently, I had the good fortune of sitting next to two who had just finished their GCSEs and were on their way to Milo’s party in Bath. Milo, I discovered, was having the party at his ...

Caprices of fate govern not just our own lives, but the course of nations, according to Klaas. Image credit: Robert Stump via Unsplash Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters (John ...

Adults play on water slide set up in Bristol, May 2014. Credit: Alamy It’s late summer and the afternoon sun is beating off Shoreditch’s sheer glass facades and gum-littered pavements. My colleagues ...

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think (Princeton University Press) by Helen De Cruz What is wonder? To try to answer the question requires you to perform the mental act that you are ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...

Many of us suffer from the cognitive bias known as the “just world fallacy”. The sense that the world should be a fair place can easily slide into the belief that it is a fair place and that people ...