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At its 17th edition, the India Art Fair deepens the conversations around art, design, and culture with an expanded set of ...

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Project Stargate is arguably one of the best illustrations of how state secrecy can allow extraordinary claims to persist well after the files are packed away. The CIA financed remote viewing research ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in the journal Leonardo, our thought experiment lends weight to the idea that ...

Astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 3I/ATLAS was confirmed as the third known object to enter our solar system from interstellar ...

In the 1860s, white settlers flocked to what would become Marysvale, where the Deer Trail Mine is now located, with high hopes to strike gold, silver, and copper. By the 1930s, though, most of the ...

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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 ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...