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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 »

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 »

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Like Kerley, sprinter Tristan Evelyn from Barbados competed without taking any drugs. She too won big in Vegas, besting her Enhanced peers in two events.SAEED RAHBARAN One thing the athletes wouldn’t talk... Read more »

The Download: whole-body rejuvenation drugs and five things to know about AI

Sinclair, a biologist at Harvard Medical School, plans to launch the tests in a $101 million competition organized by the XPrize Foundation. The winners will “restore” a person to an earlier apparent... Read more »

Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise

Human employees have more time to focus on work “that requires a creative and imaginative mind and cross-functional collaboration, leveraging diverse ideas and thoughts to problem-solve,” says Jayaswal. The AI agent, meanwhile,... Read more »