2025
Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers
Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Casarabe people built an innovative, previously unrecognized network of drainage canals and water-storing ponds that enabled two maize harvests annually, say geoarchaeologist Umberto Lombardo of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and colleagues. Large-scale maize cultivation during rainy and…
DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working
When a small Chinese company called DeepSeek revealed that it had created an A.I. system that could match leading A.I. products made in the United States, the news was greeted in many circles as a warning that China was closing the gap in the global race to build artificial intelligence. DeepSeek also said it built…
Middle East crisis live: Israel names three hostages set to be released on Thursday | Israel-Gaza war
Israel names three hostages set to be released on Thursday Israel has named three Israeli hostages set to be released on Thursday under the terms of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. An official named the Israel women as Arbel Yehoud, 29, Agam Berger, 19, and the man as Gadi Mozes, 80, according to the Associated…
Europe live: Olaf Scholz rejects call for overhaul of German border laws and defends right to asylum | World news
Scholz defends the right to asylum German chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended the right to claim asylum in Germany, rejecting calls for a radical overhaul. The right to asylum is an integral part of our legal and value system. We must not abandon it today. Directly addressing the Aschaffenburg attack last week, he calls it…