Shayne Coplan started building Polymarket five years ago when he was 21. On his prediction market, now valued at $9 billion, users can put up money and bet against each other on nearly anything. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" Yo ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" Yo ...

The last minute of 60 Minutes is sponsored by United Healthcare. Coverage you can count on for your whole life ahead. Tonight, an update on last season's story from the mountains of Mexico, where we witness the mysterious migration of monarch butterflies.>> You can actually hear the sound of butterfly wings. >> Yeah. >> Let's just be quiet for a second.Look at that. Look. Look at that.Oh my gosh. It's still something of a mystery how these monarchs find their way thousands of miles from the US to Mexico. Bu ...

Want to see eyes pop and jaws drop? Ask your soccer loving friends about Laminia Mal, an 18-year-old sensation from Spain. Better yet, watch him play, ideally in person, which you can do next summer when the World Cup comes to North America for the first time in 32 years. The tournament draw will be held Friday in Washington DC. This World Cup likely will double as a valid victory for Global Soccer's GOAT Lionel Messi of Argentina. But it will also be a debut showcase for the extravagant generational talent ...

Spanish soccer star Lamine Yamal sits down with 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Wertheim to talk about his love for soccer, the World Cup, and the pressure of playing on the world stage. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube chann ...

I think it's actually fairly easy to make money on prediction markets if you're a smart person because conventional wisdom is very powerful and very pervasive and often times it's wrong and it's wrong in at least somewhat predictable ways. >> How much are you researching these subjects. I mean is it every day you are spending hours researching stuff just reading up on things.Yeah. So, a lot of my time is spent reading uh Twitter and you know, news articles and stuff like that. And, you know, some events are ...

60 Minutes overtime. >> This week on 60 Minutes, we reported on Poly Market, which is a prediction market where users can bet on the outcome of future events. Betters can potentially win or lose money predicting things like the winner of a football game, the results of a political election, the weather, even a celebrity pregnancy announcement.>> Here's the question. Here's the percentage likelihood. Here's how it's changed over time.And here's a yes and no button if you have an opinion. >> Shane Copelan is ...

Russia's bombardment of Ukrainian cities is relentless as Vladimir Putin tries to plunge civilians into a winter of cold and darkness. President Putin's war approaching four years threatens to draw in all of Europe. Targeting civilians has been an international war crime since 1949. The crimes you're about to see are hard to watch. Putin is hitting homes, schools, hospitals, and 7 months ago, a city bus. In the city of Sunumi, bus route 62 takes you to the university, the mall, and onto the airport. The fai ...

60 Minutes rewind. >> As the Thanksgiving weekend comes to a close, you may feel as oversted as that turkey you ate. And if you're overweight, and the chances are you are, it's probably because you eat too much.Too much of the wrong stuff. Most of the wrong stuff we eat comes in a bottle, a can, or a box. Food that's been processed. Much of that food has been flavored.The flavoring industry is the enabler of the food processing business, which depends on it to create a craving for everything from soda pop t ...

Montana's landscape beguiles as it unfolds. The kind of sheer beauty that could stop traffic if there were traffic to stop. The scale is hard to exaggerate.It's a state roughly the size of California with roughly the population of greater Fresno just north of 1 million. Montanants speak fondly of their neighbors who might live 50 m away. As for the land itself, it's not mere real estate.It's there for recreation, a corridor for wildlife. It's symbolic, too. The open frontier is an emblem of freedom and poss ...