Some areas of Kent and Sussex are experiencing water supply disruptions due to the hot spell, with South East Water saying storage reservoirs at critical levels in Whitstable and Herne Bay. Iran ...

NHS maternity units prioritise whoever has the nearest due date, a rule that quietly fails both women who plan ahead and urgent late-arriving cases. Women who know early they'll need a caesarean often ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model has solved an 80-year-old math problem in a feat hailed as a major milestone for AI's mathematical ability. The planar unit distance problem, first posed by ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Asana has acquired the workflow automation company StackAI for $75 million, part of a larger effort to position itself as an AI-native workplace platform. StackAI’s founders, Tony Rosinol and Bernard ...

Battery companies seeing interest from AI data centers Annual deployments of battery storage could reach 110 GWh by 2030 Interconnection queues remain a challenge May 18 (Reuters) - Battery storage ...

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 U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 11, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal by President Donald Trump's ...