A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

"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, ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he’s starting to worry that “dead internet theory” is coming true. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has told Sky News she was shocked by the police interest in her. Portuguese and British police investigated the German woman seven years ...

Mykhailo Mudryk may have failed a doping test due to a stem cell injection, with a Ukrainian journalist providing a new theory on the Chelsea winger. Mudryk was heavily linked with Arsenal but ended ...

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. By Dan Wang. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $31.99. Allen Lane; £25 Many of the people who run China are engineers, and it shows. Since the 1980s China has ...

Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...