Chandra and Brandon Carr remember taking their children to visit the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit last year. Upon seeing a replica of a slave ship packed with shackled, ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

Parallel worlds sound like science fiction, but modern physics paints a different picture. Quantum mechanics suggests that particles don’t choose one path—they follow all possible paths, branching ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the year that 28.6% of lower-income households were living paycheck to paycheck. It was 2024. More American households are ...

When Melissa came ashore, it tied strength records for Atlantic hurricanes making landfall, both in wind speed and barometric pressure, a key measurement used by meteorologists. Hurricane Melissa, ...

Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 298 kph winds Tuesday, was a beast that stood out as extreme even in a record number of monster storms spawned over the last decade in a ...

Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 185 mph winds Tuesday, was a beast that stood out as extreme even in a record number of monster storms spawned over the last decade in a ...

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 ...