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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it ...

And each snail has a small piece of circuitry and a tiny antenna on its shell. And when that snail passes by a reader it collects, or it's assigned an email, and then it wanders off and slimes around ...

There’s a trick to finding new species of miniature snails: a bucket of water. “Microsnail” is the term for the creatures with shells measuring 5 millimeters or less, sometimes much less. A species ...