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At first glance, Lizzo, the singer, rapper and style icon, might not seem to have a lot in common with Katalin Karikó, the molecular biologist whose research on mRNA technology enabled rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccine. Nor perhaps does Bela

SARA MENKER — FOUNDER, CEO, GRO INTELLIGENCE BY 2050, THE UNITED NATIONS says, we’re going to need 70 percent more food to feed the nine billion people living on Earth. Global climate change threatens to upend their lives—worsening storms, droughts,

KATALIN KARIKÓ SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, BIONTECH ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF NEUROSURGERY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA IATALIN KARIKÓ ADMITS that at the beginning of 2020, when word began to spread of a novel virus called COVID-19, she really didn’t think it w

BELA BAJARIA — HEAD OF GLOBAL TV, NETFLIX WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED that the breakout hits on American television this year would be Squid Game, a survival story from Korea, and Lupin, a French thriller about a Black gentleman thief? Even Bela Bajaria s

JAYKUMAR MENON — CO-FOUNDER, OPEN PHARMA AMONG THE MANY SOCIETAL shortcomings the pandemic has laid bare, the failure to get drugs and vaccines to many people who need them is one of the most painful and urgent. For many people around the world, the

GEORGE HOWARD DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a gulf between the few musicians who make it big and the many, many others who have to do something else to pay the bills. That was true in the days of Mozart, who

DAVID BASZUCKI — CEO, ROBLOX IMAGINE A WORLD IN which you can be anyone you want—a superhero, a rock star, a science fiction monster or an angel. You can play games or meet up with friends. You can go anywhere in this world in an instant. You can liv

AADEEL AKHTAR — FOUNDER AND CEO, PSYONIC WHEN AADEEL AKHTAR WAS 7 years old, he met a little girl who changed his life. His parents took him to see family in Pakistan, where they’d been born, and they were walking into a store when he saw her. She wa

JIE XU — ASSISTANT SCIENTIST, ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY JUST IMAGINE THE NEXT generation of electronics,” says Jie Xu. “It’s not going to be rigid anymore. It’s going to be soft, comfortable. It can even be biocompatible, like our tissue or skin.”

OLIVIA COLMAN IS CONTINUING HER STREAK OF INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES with two big ones this December. First is the HBO miniseries The Landscapers (Mondays in December), based on the true story of Susan and Christopher Edwards, the mild-mannered British

RODNEY PRIESTLEY, XIAOHUI XU PROFESSOR, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MORE THAN 800 MILLION people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. Over half the U.S. population drinks from water with detectable lead levels, studies sugg