Exactly three years ago today, Elon Musk tweeted that 90 percent of his tweet replies on what was then called Twitter were bot accounts. His insistence that Twitter was essentially one large bot farm ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a ...

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

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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Babe, wake up! There’s a new theory that everyone’s star signs are wrong. Yep, the debate over whether or not the zodiac sign dates are accurate pops up every few years, the latest one being presented ...

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 ...

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 ...