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BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 01: Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he drives after inspecting the troops during a parade to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square in 1949, on October 1, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

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JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 05: Aamir Khan poses in the portrait studio during the Red Sea International Film Festival 2024 on December 05, 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)

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TOPSHOT - People look through documents at the Saydnaya prison in Damascus on December 11, 2024. After Assad's overthrow, thousands flocked to Saydnaya prison hoping to find loved ones who disappeared in government jails. Saydnaya is believed to have several underground levels sealed behind airtight gates. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)

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We took this photo in our laboratory on September 11, 2020. The slightly larger mouse in the middle is a mouse (space mouse) born from sperm preserved (6 years) in space. The slightly smaller mice in the front and back are the offspring of space mice bred together. This experiment proved that space mice grew into normal adults and had normal reproductive abilities

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OSWIECIM, POLAND - DECEMBER 18: The sun rises over the early morning mist blanketing the barbed wire electrified fence that surrounds the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp on December 18, 2019 in Oswiecim, Poland. Ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet soldiers are due to take place on January 27, 2020. Auschwitz was a network of concentration camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Auschwitz I and nearby Auschwitz II-Birkenau was the extermination camp where an estimated 1.1 million people, mostly Jews from across Europe, were killed in gas chambers or from systematic starvation, forced labour, disease and medical experiments. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - JULY 06: Lila Ibrahim, chief operating officer of Google Deep Mind speaks on stage on July 06, 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland. Some 3,000 global experts from big tech, education and international organisations will gather at a two-day summit in Geneva organised by the United Nations to discuss artificial intelligence in its potential for empowering humanity. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

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