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Why China's DeepSeek is threatening to disrupt the AI i...

The new AI model from China's DeepSeek performs on a level with leading US model...

How our ancestors invented clothing and transformed it ...

Remarkable archaeological finds are telling a new story of how prehistoric human...

Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapse...

Muscle patch made from stem cells could treat heart fai...

A patch made from lab-grown muscle cells boosted heart function in monkeys with ...

How humans evolved to think about risk may cost Earth d...

A provocative new book delves into the way humans – and elephants – evolved to m...

Building a true meritocracy means removing barriers, no...

US President Donald Trump has pledged to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusi...

The strange geoengineering idea with potential for sign...

Feedback is intrigued (and terrified) by a new paper that suggests you could set...

How to spot Bode's galaxy this month

We will never get an image of the Milky Way from above, but M81 or Bode's galaxy...

These interstellar spaceship designs are wildly impract...

Scientists’ ideas for travelling to the stars range from the the wholly improbab...

This look at animal consciousness is a moral workout – ...

Some animals – and even machines – may turn out to be conscious. Must we wait fo...

Rewild the UK with lynx soon? Not a cat in hell’s chanc...

Various projects aim to reestablish lynx as a wild species in the UK after being...

A lively history shows that the human neck is full of s...

The neck is less than 1 per cent of the human body's surface area, but it plays ...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays Uponst Us All

And the People of LWON, on this day, are taking a break. They will be back, they...

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All original art by the author. This post originally appeared September 13, 2024

major AI Large Language Models (LLMs) ranked by capabil...

A visualisation of major large-language models (LLMs), ranked by performance, us...

Tech predictions made 15 years ago – how many stand up?

We made this graphical timeline back in 2009 for our book Information is Beautif...

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