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Plus: OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US IPO. The outspoken longevity scientist David Sinclair has predicted that, one day, you'll go to the doctor and get a prescription that will make you 10 years younger. MIT Technology Review has learned of his latest step toward this: human tests of a "reprogramming" drug. 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 age, as measured by improvements in immune, cognitive, and muscle function. The grand prize goes to any team able to show a 10-year (or greater) relative improvement after one year of treatment.
Jack Hughes
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Has anyone, in or out of the dentist's chair, shined more brightly after losing teeth than Jack Hughes, the New Jersey Devils center, who at the Milano Cortina Olympics scored the game-winning goal in overtime to give Team USA a 2-1 win over Canada, and the Americans their first men's hockey gold medal since the 1980 Miracle on Ice? Despite a high-stick to the mouth from Canada's Sam Bennett late in the third period, Hughes played on and fired a left-wing rocket past goalkeeper Jordan Binnington to seal the victory.
Cherie DeVaux
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. If you need a lift, just watch--or perhaps rewatch, on a loop-- the viral clip of horse-racing trainer Cherie DeVaux losing her mind as her 23-to-1 Kentucky Derby long shot, Golden Tempo, charged from the back of the pack down the backstretch to clinch a stunning comeback victory. It's almost guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.
Diana Flores
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Flag football will step firmly onto the global stage at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, and Diana Flores is one of the key figures who helped it get there. The Mexico City native began playing at age 8 and made her country's national team by 16.
Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. While at Ohio State, Jaxon Smith-Njigba--the football artist known as JSN--broke the record for receiving yards at the Rose Bowl, with 347 on New Year's Day 2022. In his rookie NFL season with the Seattle Seahawks in 2023, his one-handed catch on Thanksgiving, in front of a prime-time national TV audience, announced his arrival.