Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of salt? Your dog’s slobbery tongue lolling out the side of its mouth on a hot ...

T HE FEDERAL government’s assault on Minneapolis continues but, for the past few days, it is Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe campaign to rid America of illegal immigrants that has seemed under siege.

We often think we know more than we actually do. While four in five Americans consider themselves knowledgeable about the human body, only one in ten knows that O-negative is the universal blood type, ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

“The odds that we find something on Mars or Europa are high,” said Jack Pallotto, senior in LAS and president of the Astrobiology Club. “But whether I’ll be there? That’s a different question.” Here ...

Although Marina Sirtis didn’t wear any prosthetic space alien makeup in Star Trek: The Next Generation, any of the feature films, or Picard, the truth is, like Spock before her, the character of ...

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 ...

2026 marks 30 years of Alienware history, and all those years have one thing in common: powerful PCs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...