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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...

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

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

These interstellar spaceship designs are wildly impract...

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

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...

Introducing the Information is Beautiful Print Store

Our new online store where you can buy high-quality art prints and canvases of o...

Trump Broke the Federal Email System and Government Emp...

Reply All Turns out that putting a bunch of teenagers in charge of the federal g...

Engineered heart muscle allografts for heart repair in ...

Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08463-0Epicard...

Strange flashes from ancient galaxy deepen mystery of f...

Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00233-wUnusual...

How flight helped bats become invincible to viruses

Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00268-zThe mam...

Molecular basis of vitamin K driven γ-carboxylation at ...

Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08648-1Molecul...

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