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The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

The idea is to treat the disease by regenerating healthy nerves in the eye—but the company already hopes to go further. If the treatment can reverse glaucoma, similar treatments could reverse other... Read more »

You do your own time

I tilted my face up and gave the eye in the sky the finger. It didn’t matter. They already knew where I was. “Let’s go in.” “Wait,” said Gibson, both hands cradling... Read more »

Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

Think of the captain’s bridge on the USS Enterprise, where a live map displays the status of the ship’s critical systems: oxygen levels, energy availability, hull integrity, shield strength. Another set of... Read more »

Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now

Again, that doesn’t mean senolytic drugs that target “zombie cells” won’t work. But it feels as if many in the field have moved on. These days, the buzz is all about ✨reprogramming✨.... Read more »

The Download: soccer’s data renaissance and China’s big nuclear plans

5 SpaceX’s listing price is expected to be revealed todayIt could lead to the biggest IPO ever. (NPR)+ And turn 4,400 employees into millionaires. (NYT $) 6 EPA scientists say they’re pushed... Read more »

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

(I asked Shah if they were considering any worst-case scenarios more on the doomer end of the spectrum, such as widespread economic collapse. “Certainly not if we’re talking by the end of... Read more »

Why China is betting on big nuclear reactors

Meanwhile, the US has built just two reactors in that time—Unit 3 and Unit 4 at Plant Vogtle in Georgia. Smaller reactors are attracting a lot of excitement and investment, though. A... Read more »

Inside soccer’s data renaissance

Davis and his team of researchers employ advanced data analytics to reveal a range of (beg your pardon) game-changing findings that are shifting pro clubs’ decision-making. “His lab is the most influential... Read more »

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

Cernak imagines a world where “the patient was always meant to be a frog in the first place, from the beginning to the end.” Now an associate professor at the University of... Read more »

The Download: the “steroid olympics” and a safer Mythos

A couple of weeks ago, at a $50 million arena built in a casino parking lot in Las Vegas, I witnessed a libertarian thought experiment come to life. The inaugural Enhanced Games... Read more »