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Frontier AI models gained 30 percentage points in a year on Humanity's Last Exam, a test built to defeat them

Frontier AI models jumped from single-digit scores to roughly 50 percent on Humanity's Last Exam in twelve months — a benchmark built by nearly 1,000 experts to be unbeatable.

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What happened when American plains farmers, after a decade of black blizzards burying houses to the eaves in the 1930s, were paid by a new federal agency to plough along the contours and plant windbreak trees?

In April 1935, Congress created the Soil Conservation Service and began paying Great Plains farmers to plough along contours and plant windbreaks. Within seven years, roughly 220 million trees stood in a 1,150-mile shelterbelt from North Dakota to Texas — and the black blizzards began to fade.

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Earlier this year France recruited 41 US-based researchers through its Choose France for Science programme, and in August Canada announced 48 more crossing north, as national talent schemes quietly pick off scientists unsettled by US funding cuts

France recruited 41 US-based researchers through its Choose France for Science programme this year, and Canada added 48 more in August, as national talent schemes quietly draw scientists away from an American research system rattled by funding cuts and visa volatility.

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We tend to think honey spoils like any other food, but sealed jars recovered from Egyptian tombs over 3,000 years old have been reported still edible, preserved by a combination of low water content, natural hydrogen peroxide, and a pH acidic enough to stop bacteria from growing at all

Sealed honey pots recovered from Egyptian tombs have been reported edible after 3,000 years — and the chemistry that makes it possible, from bee-added enzymes to water activity below 0.6, still shapes how modern food scientists and mānuka producers think about preservation.

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In 1665, Robert Hooke sliced a paper-thin sliver of cork, held it under a compound microscope of his own design, and saw rows of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of monks' quarters, giving biology the word 'cell' 174 years before anyone worked out what was actually inside one

How a Royal Society polymath, a leather-tubed microscope, and a sliver of dead bark gave biology its most fundamental word — and why it took 174 years to figure out what was actually inside a living one.

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