Ohio voters — in a rare election in August — voted in unexpectedly large numbers against a ballot measure that would have made it harder to get a constitutional abortion-rights amendment on the ballot in November. The election came almost to the day after voters in Kansas also stunned observers by supporting abortion rights in … Read more
Tanya Lewis: Hello, this is Your Health, Quickly, a podcast series from Scientific American! Josh Fischman: We’re highlighting the latest major health news: discoveries impacting your body and mind. Lewis: And we break down medical research to help you stay healthy. I’m Tanya Lewis. Fishman: I’m Josh Fischman. Lewis: We are Scientific American’s senior health … Read more
My siblings and I didn’t grow up in a typical “nuclear family” – our family tree did a lot from branches. For the purposes of this story, you need to know that my father married my stepmother when I was a teenager, bringing my stepbrother and stepsister Matthew and Kristina together with my half-sister Natasha … Read more
The digital health sector has entered a new era in terms of funding, now decoupled from the feverish flow of capital in 2020 and 2021. Startups in this space must quickly adapt to a fundraising landscape characterized by smaller check sizes, fewer deals and a smaller cohort of investors, according to a new study report … Read more
In the last year or so, the digital health fundraising landscape has evolved passed From a climate where corporations have had more power (given the extraordinary interest in all things tech) to one where investors have more power. In 2021, this investment space was characterized by inflated valuations and large rounds of funding, but companies … Read more
In 2016 I gave up Diet Coke. This was no small adjustment. I was born and raised in the Atlanta suburbs, where The Coca-Cola Company has its global headquarters, and I’ve never lived in a house with a Diet-Cola in the fridge all the time. In high school I would have one for breakfast every … Read more
top line A new weight-loss drug from Eli Lilly has shown promising results: Participants in a new study lost an average of 24% of their body weight, the highest percentage of weight loss of any drug in its class. Eli Lilly and Company, headquarters of a pharmaceutical company in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain. Cristina Arias Important … Read more
Meet your new personal AI companion getty Meet the latest AI companion Pi, a conversational chatbot developed by feisty unicorn startup Inflection AI and founded by ChatGPT maker OpenAI co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. The company raised more than $225 million last year to build the world’s largest language model to … Read more