On December 8 (local time), the globally respected journal Nature unveiled its list of the “Top 10 Scientific Pioneers of 2025,” honoring Du Mengran, a researcher at the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek. Du Mengran garnered international attention for her extraordinary achievement of completing 24 deep dives into 9,000-meter-deep trenches, where she uncovered the deepest-known animal ecosystem on Earth. Her related research findings were subsequently published in Nature. Meanwhile, Liang Wenfeng amazed the global scientific community by developing DeepSeek’s R1, a large language model that combines affordability with high performance, offering an open-source platform for researchers worldwide.
