But even while administration sources were contesting the notion that Hegseth had personally ordered the follow-up strike, the secretary himself was letting the grinning, weapon-wielding turtle speak ...

Federal injury data logged shampoo bottles, lightbulbs and vape pens removed during emergency room visits in 2025/ Image: Defector Every year, emergency departments in the US record cases involving ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how galaxies form. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Councillors have voted unanimously to object to plans for onshore cabling for wind farms off the Lancashire coast. Lancashire County Council has decided to write to the government with its concerns ...

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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 new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several mysterious bright spots in the sky. These transient objects, captured on film ...

In case you missed it, there’s a fascinating object from another part of the universe visiting our neck of the woods. Dubbed 3I-ATLAS — “three” as in the third known interstellar object from outside ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...