Neanderthals often found refuge in caves GREGOIRE CIRADE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. It’s early January and south-west Britain is painfully cold. Not that cold, obviously: my friends in Canada and Scandinavia are laughing…
In the chaotic world of Large Language Model (LLM) optimization, engineers have spent the last few years developing increasingly esoteric rituals to get better answers. We’ve seen “Chain of Thought” (asking the model to think step-by-step and often, show those “reasoning traces” to the user), “Emotional Blackmail” (telling the model its career depends on the…
Gordon Ramsay has shared a gushing tribute to his daughter Holly Ramsay, looking back at her wedding a few weeks ago . The 59-year-old shared an Instagram post dedicated to the big day, first sharing a photo from the car journey to the church itself. In the photo, the father and daughter were seen clutching…
China’s surplus reached $1.19 trillion last year, a 20 percent increase from 2024, as Beijing kept the currency weak and pursued self-reliance to replace imports.
China banned the burning of coal for heat around Beijing, but natural gas subsidies have run out, leaving many villagers vulnerable in dangerously cold weather.
Spanish singer Julio Iglesias has been accused of sexual assault by two former employees, according to a three-year joint investigation by Spanish news site elDiario.es and Spanish-language TV network Univision Noticias. The former employees allege they were subjected “to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation… in an atmosphere of control and constant harassment.” The women, who…
QINGDAO, CHINA – JANUARY 13, 2026 – The cargo ship is loading and unloading foreign trade containers at Qingdao Port in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China on January 13, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s exports growth in December sharply beat expectations, catapulting the annual trade surplus to a record high, even…
Mikaela Shiffrin completed another dominant night in Flachau, Austria, on Tuesday, winning a World Cup slalom to extend her season-long stranglehold on the discipline while leading an American one-two finish with teammate Paula Moltzan. Shiffrin followed up her fastest opening run with a composed second run to finish 0.41sec clear of Moltzan, claiming her sixth…
Reza Pahlavi, living in exile in the United States, has long marketed himself as a future leader of Iran. His father’s repressive legacy casts a long shadow.
The last three years were the hottest on record, a new analysis of global climate data finds. They also mark the first three-year period in which the global average temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — a threshold associated with increased risks to biodiversity, human health and weather extremes. “1.5 degrees C is…
