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Academia’s mission is to accelerate the world’s research, believing in the power of science as a transformative lever for technological progress.

Archimedes' principle, "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world," encapsulates this vision.

Archimedes, circa 287 BC

The scientific revolution has significantly driven GDP growth over the past two centuries, as depicted in Figure 2.

Science has been pivotal in reducing the cost of clean energy (Figure 3) and has drastically decreased the mortality rate for cardiovascular disease over the last 60 years (Figure 4). Moreover, the cost of sequencing a human genome has plummeted from 100millionin2001to100 million in 2001 to 100millionin2001to500 today (Figure 5).

Accelerating scientific progress means faster advancements in critical areas such as global poverty reduction, clean energy, disease cures, and the development of aligned superintelligence.

Figure 2: Global GDP growth in the last 2000 years

Figure 3. World-leveled cost of energy by technology 1984–2022

Figure 4. Age-standardized overall and age-specific premature heart disease mortality rates* among adults aged 25–64 years, 1968–2017

Figure 5: Cost of sequencing a full human genome 2001–2022

If science accelerates, technological progress accelerates