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Nearly every conversation about artificial intelligence leads to the same question: What happens to people?

For generations, medicine has treated aging as a one-way street. Time moves forward. Cells wear down. Vision fades, joints stiffen, memory sometimes falters.

What Leaves Do More Elegantly Than Any Lab Scientists can split water in the lab, but leaves still do it with a quiet elegance we are still trying to match. Every day, plants perform one of the most extraordinary chemical reactions on Earth. They take sunlight and water and turn part of it into the oxygen we breathe. Two water molecules go in. Oxygen comes out. That alone is remarkable. But here is the part most people never think about: Plants need a metal released over time from ancient...