What if everything you thought you knew about the zodiac was wrong? What if you weren't the sign you thought you were, but ...

Archaeologist Kathleen Martínez has spent more than 20 years of her career attempting to track down Cleopatra's final resting ...

Upper part of the stele discovered with the monolingual inscription of the Canopus decree. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt In a discovery described as transcendental, an Egyptian ...

For the last century, Émile Argand's theory on the formation and geological support system of the massive Himalayan mountain range has remained the predominant explanation widely accepted among ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

"If the model holds true, it could mark a new chapter in the way we think about the birth of the universe." A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, ...

Why do people get sick? Ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s highest-ranking public-health official, and he may chalk it up to their terrain. For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that ...

“They’re in this kind of paranoid bubble." One of the groups targeted by OpenAI, the AI governance nonprofit Encode, has had a particularly egregious experience dealing with the company’s legal might.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

E.J. Antoni told interns from the Heritage Foundation that women’s IQs clustered around average scores, while men have more geniuses and unintelligent individuals, people familiar with the remarks say ...

Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT creators OpenAI, has suggested that there might be some truth in the “dead internet theory”. (Yui Mok/PA) (PA Archive) Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has ...