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Polymarket, CRISPR Kids, Lamine Yamal

60 Minutes

CBS News

Cbs, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, News

4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

As the popularity of online prediction markets grows, correspondent Anderson Cooper sits down with Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan in his first network television interview. The 27-year-old newly minted billionaire talks about his platform, where users can bet on politics and pop culture, sports and finance, even war and peace, and how all that data can be used to forecast the future. After a three-year U.S. ban, Coplan explains how Polymarket works, and how the company finds itself poised to reenter the U.S. market with backing from Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley.  America’s next wave of scientific talent may come from Lambert High School, where students used CRISPR to develop a promising new way to detect and treat Lyme disease, which affects nearly half a million Americans each year. Correspondent Bill Whitaker meets these “CRISPR kids” as they take their breakthrough to iGEM—the global biotech Olympics in Paris—and face off against the world’s new rising force in biotechnology: China.  Barcelona’s 18-year-old soccer phenom Lamine Yamal has captivated fans with his improvisation and flair. Already, he is considered a generational talent and an heir to the great Lionel Messi. Correspondent Jon Wertheim meets Lamine Yamal in his home country of Spain to talk about his rapid ascent ahead of next summer’s World Cup in North America. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the main page for Polymarket.

0:08.6

Polymarkets users bet on all kinds of questions.

0:12.5

Fed decision, Bolivia presidential election.

0:15.2

Will Taylor Swift get married this year?

0:17.9

When will there be a ceasefire in Ukraine?

0:20.5

Who will win the 2028 election?

0:22.6

And how accurate is it?

0:24.6

It's the most accurate thing we have as mankind right now, until someone else creates some sort of super crystal ball.

0:30.6

America's future as a science leader may depend on students like the ones you are going to meet tonight.

0:38.3

We're doing something in our high school lab that could potentially have a huge impact for like millions of people.

0:45.3

This thing could help save lives.

0:47.3

They did it to prove they are the best in the world at this prestigious international science competition. I'm hoping we finished top 10, but even that, I don't know.

0:58.0

We'll see.

0:58.9

How did the judges see it?

1:00.7

So the winners are...

1:02.8

Stay tuned.

1:06.7

18-year-old Spanish soccer sensation Lamin Mall, is not yet licensed to drive, not yet

1:13.1

liberated from wearing braces, but already the world, like the ball he dribbles, is at his

1:19.5

feet.

1:20.5

One thing we keep hearing is this kid's got it.

1:23.5

Right.

1:24.5

What is it?

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