In this week’s edition of The Prototype we look at the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025–and the year’s best music.

Best-sellers have explored every facet of productivity. Charles Duhigg’s “The Power of Habit” looked at the neuroscience of behavior change. “Atomic Habits” by James Clear touted small, deliberate ...

We are inundated with technological hype. Self-driving cars, human-like robots and AI chatbots are the subject of sometimes ...

Gracy Chen went from TV star, to entrepreneur, became CEO of a top 5 crypto exchange Bitget — and blended it all together on Killer Whales.

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

Learn how Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s management theory revolutionized workplace efficiency through motion study and standardization.

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

Lords of Finance provides an event-driven historical account of the run-up to 1929, but Sorkin’s book is a character-driven ...

A Bizarre, Challenging Book More People Should Read The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as ...

Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking.

A good book, along with an iced coffee, is all you need to feel like you’ve escaped the hustle and bustle. Here’s where to go ...

From Agency Chaos to Dark Energy Shocks: How Politics, Health, Climate Policy and Space Science Defined 2025 A look back at 2025’s biggest science stories—from federal upheaval and public health ...