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 ...

In a YouTube video called “Teens React to Encyclopedias,” one kid comes up with the definition of encyclopedia as “the internet in books”; another says that “it was Google way back in the day. . . it ...

Almost 250 years after it first appeared, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is ceasing its print edition. This signals the end not just of a venerable print reference, but perhaps the end of the ...

In one of the great tragedies of our age, indigenous traditions, stories, cultures and knowledge are winking out across the world. Whole languages and mythologies are vanishing, and in some cases even ...

There can be no clearer evidence of the swift and steep decline of the printed reference book than these figures taken from a recent New York Times: In 1990, the Encyclopedia Britannica sold 120,000 ...

A knowledge graph provides the associations between resources in a potentially complex information space. There is an intriguing fallacy (what I call the disconnected data fallacy) that seems ...