A new-year round-up of the science stories you may have missed
Nature, Published online: 08 January 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00031-4
We highlight some Nature Briefing stories from the end of 2024, including the retraction saga of a controversial COVID study, the skin’s surprise immune-system and the running ability of our ancient relatives.
Author Of article : Flora Graham
Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in two months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.
DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a com…