History, it turns out, does not end; it mocks those who try to write its final chapter too early. Nearly four decades after Francis Fukuyama argued that liberal democracy represented the endpoint of ...

Welcome to another edition of Hello, Doctor — the TOI+ series that connects India’s leading specialists directly with our readers. Each week, subscribers write in with personal health questions, our ...

Students have been reduced to tears following what many described as an 'impossible' maths examination, with one candidate claiming: "I only got my name right." Nearly 19,000 individuals have now ...

Students have been left in tears after an ‘impossible’ maths paper which left one saying ‘I only got my name right’. Almost 19,000 people have signed a petition demanding a review of the Edexcel A ...

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 ...

Google has long positioned Gemini‘s Flash models as the faster, cheaper alternative to its flagship Pro tier. However, that changes with Gemini 3.5 Flash. Announced at I/O 2026, the new model ...

A new study put ChatGPT to the test by asking it to judge whether hundreds of scientific hypotheses were true or false—and the results were far from reassuring. While the AI got it right about 80% of ...

Genomic prediction and design require models capable of integrating local sequence features with long-range regulatory dependencies. Nucleotide Transformer v3 (NTv3) is a multi-species genomic ...

Travel in Mexico was getting back to business as usual this week days after violence rocked the country following the killing of a cartel leader. The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico updated its ...

Polo Rocha has written about economics and banking for a decade. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s decision on whether to cut interest rates again depends heavily on the uncertain ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...