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A compass with a red needle points north toward a yellow smiley face symbol, signifying happiness, on a textured background with gray, white, and red horizontal sections.
AI will shape the future of work, but human leadership will decide whether that future is good — and happiness should be the touchstone.
A vivid image of a galaxy with bright blue and red nebulous clouds, set against a black star-filled background in deep space.
With unprecedented resolution, wavelength sensitivity, and light-gathering power, JWST reveals our cosmos like no other observatory ever.
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People don't want you to buy their stories — they want you to listen to them.
A deep space image shows numerous distant galaxies and stars against a dark background, including several bright spots shaped by a gravitational lens cross, with diffuse light sources scattered throughout.
Gravitational lenses arise when foreground masses and background light sources properly align. Einstein rings are rare, but crosses abound.
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"This will help people take meaningful steps to slow the rate of aging and increase what we call their health span or their kind of time of life expectancy free from disease."
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“Our conscious awareness is everything. And the fact that it's still so mysterious to scientists and to all of humanity, the fact that it's still one of the great unsolved mysteries makes it something that everyone can be excited about and that inspires awe in everyone.”