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 ...

Cognitive dissonance happens when you hold two conflicting thoughts in your mind at the same time — like loving both hamburgers and cows. Cognitive dissonance is a theory in social psychology first ...

AGI is a theoretical form of AI able to solve any number of hypothetical tasks using generalized human cognitive abilities Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...

Let's be honest, we're all drama queens sometimes. Whether you're texting your bestie you're “literally dying” over the latest celebrity gossip or declaring on social media that Monday mornings are ...

A food web is a detailed interconnecting diagram that shows the overall food relationships between organisms in a particular environment. The simplest explanation is that food webs are "who eats whom" ...

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Imagine a monochromatic world in which everyone is the same color: White. In a sense, that’s what pop culture, the history we’re taught in school and even religion often ask us to do by way of ...

A retrovirus is a virus that works by converting its own RNA into DNA once it is in a host cell. It then integrates this DNA into the DNA of the host cell, allowing the virus to replicate. Three ...

Capital investments fund long-term assets crucial for business operations and growth. High capital investment often indicates a robust economy; low investment may signal economic concern. Investors ...