From stone tablets to iPads, these seven everyday words have abandoned their original meanings so completely that using them ...

Dancing Vowels Explores Identity, Connection, And Meaning Through Reflective Contemporary Poetry NEW YORK CITY, NY, ...

Deep snowpack can act like a crystalline mulch, providing a protective cover with extraordinary insulating properties.

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 ...

The new map revealed tens of thousands of previously undiscovered landforms. Alexey Belenkiy via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.0 Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other ...

The Lorain-based film, “Beneath the Light,” is climbing the charts on Amazon Prime. Prime Video has acquired the Lorain movie and “it’s already making some big waves,” said John Baumgartner, writer, ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. More than 800 million years ago, tectonic rifting ...

Craig Stevens receives funding from the NZ Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment and its Strategic Science Investment Fund, and the Antarctica New Zealand Antarctic Science Platform. He is ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of tiny earthquakes that are far too weak to feel. These faint tremors are ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained a mystery. A rare look at the subglacial landscape of the frozen continent ...

The Fredericksburg Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21 to vote on calling a bond election. In the ...

The traumas of war and genocide and the fascist leanings of Salvador Dalí are among the subjects that this sprawling exhibition leaves out. Instead, it groups the art into vague categories and ...