I’ve been going to the Harold Washington Library Center diligently since I was 18. The summer between high school and college ...

A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...

New research on so-called “negation neglect” finds that LLMs in a roughly analogous situation don’t behave that way. They ...

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source ...

Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if ...

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 ...

Eden Project Morecambe will become a 'theatre of science like nowhere else on earth’ according to founder Sir Tim Smit. The Eden Project founder hailed the scheme after the charity unveiled its Bring ...

It sounds like one of those facts you’d immediately Google just to confirm it’s real. But yes, some animals really do eat poop – their own, or sometimes someone else’s. Before it gets written off as ...

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new? In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US ...

Since 1933 some scientists have left Germany, others have stayed there and kept quiet, and still others have chimed in with the Nazi idea that German science should be distinct from the brands of ...

At first glance, the enormous white plains stretching across northern Oklahoma look almost otherworldly, resembling a frozen lake or snow-covered desert under the blazing sun. But hidden just beneath ...

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 ...