Amy Nordrum

And one of the power sources that a lot of people are looking to is nuclear.

But the problem is there's a lot of reactors in the past that have gone way over budget and taken a long time to build.

Now there's a new generation of reactors being designed by a bunch of companies that could be built cheaper and perhaps more quickly.

They're smaller in size.

They use different kinds of fuel or coolant.

So everybody's been using a lot of AI in their daily life, whether they honestly know it or not.

It's built into all kinds of things that we use every day.

And now there's a huge investment going into building more data centers by lots of different companies.

And these are really a new breed of infrastructure.

They're massive facilities that use hundreds of thousands of specialized chips called GPUs and also require their own kind of very specialized hardware.

cooling systems.

So this new class of infrastructure is something that we wanted to recognize on this year's list because it's unique to our time.

Well, you've heard a lot about extinct animals, maybe that might be coming back according to the claims of some companies.

But they might not be coming back.

But yes, they might not be coming back.

And so we were quite careful with our

What we think is quite exciting, though, is the efforts around bringing back genes from ancient creatures into modern day animals or plants, often for conservation purposes or to help those plants adapt to climate change.

There's been a lot of work in this ancient DNA space and now new efforts to, you know, help endangered species get more genetic diversity by reintroducing genes from past organisms.