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The Prototype: Study Suggests AI Tools Decrease Critical Thinking Skills

The Prototype: Study Suggests AI Tools Decrease Critical Thinking Skills
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Alex Knapp

InnovationRx: Medical Debts Will Be Erased From Credit Histories

InnovationRx: Medical Debts Will Be Erased From Credit Histories

This week’s edition of InnovationRx debuts a new look. In it, we take a look at new rules for medical debt, the raw milk farm at the center of...

08.01.2025 2

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The Prototype: SpaceX Powered A Record Number Of Rocket Launches In 2024

The Prototype: SpaceX Powered A Record Number Of Rocket Launches In 2024

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the growth of the space economy, a company making quantum integrated circuits, using blue light...

03.01.2025 3

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The Prototype: SpaceX And Firefly Are Sending Science To The Moon

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a new lunar mission for startup company Firefly, how to teach old robots new tricks, our new...

20.12.2024 3

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InnovationRx: What We Know About UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Alleged Killer So Far

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Getty Images Earlier this week, police arrested 26...

12.12.2024 2

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The Prototype: Sending Text Messages With Your Brain

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a brain-computer interface, a battery that can last for thousands of years, artificial solar...

06.12.2024 10

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InnovationRx: FDA Issues New Guidance For AI In Medical Devices

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . getty This week, the FDA issued recommendations...

04.12.2024 20

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The Prototype: $5 Million XPrize Awarded For Using Drones To Monitor Rainforests

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at using drones to protect the rainforest, the newest space billionaire, why you need to get up...

22.11.2024 4

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InnovationRx: Trump Picks RFK, Jr. And Dr. Oz For Key Healthcare Roles

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Getty Images President-elect Trump has announced...

20.11.2024 6

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NASA’s CIO On Managing IT In The Final Frontier

Few organizations in the country manage as vast an array of information and communications as NASA. With incoming data from Voyager probes outside...

19.11.2024 4

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The Prototype: New Treatment Helps Paralyzed Children Walk

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a new way to help kids with a certain neurological disorder walk again, a startup building a...

15.11.2024 3

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Trump Promised To Make Your Medicines Cheaper. His Tariffs Will Make Them More Expensive

D uring the recent presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly promised to lower drug prices, to the point where he falsely...

14.11.2024 50

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InnovationRx: Positive Clinical Trial Results For Generative AI-Designed Drug

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Insilico Medicine CEO Alex Zhavoronkov Insilico...

14.11.2024 3

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The Prototype: SpaceX Plans Orbital Refueling Of Starship

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at SpaceX’s plans for Starship, a startup extending a lifeline to leukemia patients, a...

08.11.2024 3

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InnovationRx: Trump Win Brings Uncertainty To Healthcare

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump is now the...

07.11.2024 4

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How AI Will Make It Easier To Understand Your Dental X-Rays

Wardah Inam, Overjet CEO Sometimes at the end of a dental appointment, the dentist shows you a X-ray, points to an unremarkable spot on it and...

04.11.2024 7

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The Prototype: Inoculating People From Misinformation

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at how to be protected against conspiracy theories, making drugs in space, what’s next for a...

01.11.2024 3

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This AI Model Could Keep Thousands Of Cancer Patients From Getting Unnecessary Treatments

Jan Witowski and Krzysztof Geras One of the challenges of treating cancers is that they aren’t created equal. Some are fast and aggressive,...

31.10.2024 5

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InnovationRx: Venture Investments Into Biopharma And Medtech Reverse 2-Year Slide

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . getty Venture investments into biopharma and...

30.10.2024 4

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The Prototype: Abortion Drug Mifepristone May Have Anti-Aging Properties

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the potential anti-aging properties of mifepristone, a new way to farm food, a new material...

25.10.2024 7

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InnovationRx: Regrowing Cartilage To Fix Damaged Knees And Ankles

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Forbes The 13th Annual Forbes Healthcare Summit is...

24.10.2024 5

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The Prototype: SpaceX Is On Track For Five Launches In One Week

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at SpaceX’s five launch week, liberating scientists from lab-borne tedium with AI, how exercise...

18.10.2024 4

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InnovationRx: This Startup’s Emotion-Sensing Glasses Could Be Used To Improve Mental Health

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Emteq This week, U.K.-based startup Emteq Labs...

17.10.2024 4

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The Prototype: This Startup’s Chips Might Make AI A Lot Cheaper

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at chips designed for AI, building modular nuclear reactors, creating real-life web fluid, the...

11.10.2024 3

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Sepsis Causes Over 350,000 Deaths Annually. This Lab Test Can Reduce That By A Third.

Henry Tse (L) and Ajay Shah (R), cofounders of Cytovale. Every year, over 1.7 million Americans will experience sepsis, which occurs when the...

10.10.2024 3

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InnovationRx: Maven Clinic Valued At $1.7 Billion, A Growth Signal For Women’s Health

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Getty Images for SXSW Infertility can be...

10.10.2024 4

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Robinhood’s Billionaire Cofounder Wants To Set Up Hundreds Of Solar Panels In Space

Aetherflux founder Baiju Bhatt The rapid decline in price for solar power has fueled a revolution in renewable energy, but it has a terrestrial...

09.10.2024 2

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The Prototype: Cloning Big Game Animals

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cloning animals for hunting, making good on the promise of graphene, modeling a fly’s brain...

04.10.2024 8

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The Prototype: Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Tests Its Big Rocket

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at Jeff Bezos’ big rocket test, a startup working on a room-temperature quantum computer, a...

27.09.2024 3

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InnovationRx: The Researchers Who Laid The Foundation Of Modern HIV Prevention

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Courtesy Caprisa Last week, the 2024...

26.09.2024 3

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The Prototype: The Scientist Betting That Worm Secretions Fix Autoimmune Diseases

Welcome to the first edition of the Prototype! Every week I’ll tell you about the latest and most interesting news in science and emerging tech. And...

20.09.2024 2

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The Cybertruck In The Room: Why Elon Musk Isn’t On The First Forbes Sustainability Leaders List

W hen the editorial team behind this year’s Forbes Sustainability Leaders List started brainstorming possibilities for the list, Elon Musk’s name...

19.09.2024 2

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InnovationRx: FDA Commissioner Talks Healthcare AI

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Getty Images Healthcare AI startups developing...

19.09.2024 4

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Get Tomorrow’s Science And Tech News Today – Introducing The Prototype Newsletter

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore (L) and Suni Williams, wearing Boeing spacesuits — which won't do them any good on the SpaceX Dragon they'll be...

17.09.2024 3

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InnovationRx: Two Industry Veterans Aim To Accelerate The Path To Personalized Care

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Highlander Health Two former Verily executives,...

12.09.2024 3

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This Startup Aims To Regenerate Damaged Tissues With The Help Of AI And Lasers

Cellino CEO and Cofounder Nabiha Saklayen Many diseases are caused or made more severe by the destruction of healthy cells in the body, making it...

10.09.2024 10

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InnovationRx: Investing In The $648 Billion Care Economy

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . AFP via Getty Images Melinda French Gates founded...

05.09.2024 6

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InnovationRx: Myocarditis From COVID-19 Is Much More Severe Than From Vaccination

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here . Patients who got myocarditis post-vaccination were...

29.08.2024 10

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