The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

Without science, we’d still be living in caves. We wouldn’t know how to take care of a simple cold or how to travel to space.

True or false? Humans use just 10% of their brains. The Great Wall of China is visible from space. Peeing on a jellyfish stings eases the pain. If you think any of these popular science misconceptions ...

ACCORDING to Cynon Valley-born professor Mark Brake, living to a 1,000-years-old may be imminently possible. In fact, so imminent that a four-year-old today may be able to benefit from this decades-to ...

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 ...