AI Startup Collate Raises $95 Million To Automate Life Sciences Paperwork

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at breakthroughs from ASCO, Harrison.ai’s U.S. expansion, Clear’s move into healthcare and more.

Did Interstate Roads In Houston Create Clouds?

A compelling satellite image suggests that Houston interstate roads can cause clouds. Here’s the science behind it.

The No. 1 Habit All Highly Intelligent People Have, By A Psychologist

The primary habit that signals high intelligence is, surprisingly, not about knowing how to be right. It’s about knowing how to be wrong.

Meet The Gila Monster — The Lizard That Gave Us Ozempic

The fact that the Gila monster slowly chews its venom into its targets might pale in comparison to how it might have inspired the birth of Ozempic.

Trans teens have something to say
Trans teens have something to say

By the time the Children’s Hospital closed its doors to trans patients, Sage had already stopped taking testosterone. A nonbinary high school student, they originally received treatment for the rapid onset of puberty. The changes their body experienced felt frightening and sudden. They developed PMOS, a relatively common hormonal disorder that can lead to hair […]

Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems

Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half
Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline f…

A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy
A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy

Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round to develop a commercial reactor based on the same approach that produced the world’s first controlled fusion reaction with net energy gain. The rou…

Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing
Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip cuts timeline to useful quantum computing

Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company’s first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft’s claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip. Majorana 2 contains qubits, a unit of information in […]

Blue Origin says fuel tanks and key pad components survived the New Glenn explosion, pledges to fly again this year
Blue Origin says fuel tanks and key pad components survived the New Glenn explosion, pledges to fly again this year

Blue Origin has disclosed that last week’s New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral spared the launch pad’s fuel tanks and several other critical components, offering the company a faster path back to flight than the initial images of the blast sug…