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How to speed up clinical trials
Why is drug testing so slow and inefficient, and how can we fix it?
Apr 22
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Works in Progress
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Ruxandra Teslo
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Saloni Dattani
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Ben Southwood
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The myth of Nauru
Many countries want to copy Australia’s immigration rules. But its most-copied border policy is not the one that worked.
Apr 20
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Amelia Wood
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What’s new in biology: spring 2026
A breakthrough drug for pancreatic cancer, organ recovery, weight loss drugs that preserve muscle, a whole-cell simulation, how plants make nicotine…
Apr 16
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Saloni Dattani
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Niko McCarty
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The truth about egg freezing
Whatever you do, do not listen to the articles that say that egg and embryo freezing do not work.
Apr 15
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Luzia Bruckamp
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Ruxandra Teslo
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Works in Progress
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Apply for Invisible College 2026
After two years of success, our residential seminar for 18–22 year olds is returning again
Apr 10
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Ben Southwood
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Issue 23: We're freezing our eggs. Maybe you should too
Works in Progress Issue 23 is out today.
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How to spot a monopoly, Out loud
Competition makes capitalism work. A new method for measuring it may be the holy grail of economic regulation.
Apr 17
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Brian Albrecht
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The secrets of the Shinkansen
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.
Apr 13
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Benedict Springbett
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The death rays that guard life, Out Loud
We disinfect water before we drink it. Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne disease as rare as those carried by water.
Apr 10
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Karam Elabd
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Egg freezing, Australian refugee policy and ASML
A preview of everything to come in Issue 23
Apr 8
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Works in Progress
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Ben Southwood
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Aria Schrecker
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Pieter Garicano
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The creation of instant coffee
The convenience of instant coffee masks a surprisingly difficult problem.
Apr 6
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Inflatable space stations, Out Loud
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.
Apr 3
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Microbubbles
It’s incredibly hard to deliver drugs to the right organ, especially to reach the brain. Microbubbles could change that.
Mar 31
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Ambika Grover
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Escaping the Ogallala trap
There is a closing window to stop Waymos from creating omnigridlock.
Mar 27
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Ben Southwood
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