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Evolution under a microscope
Generations of microbes evolve in hours, not millennia. By speeding up Darwin’s clock, scientists have watched evolution happen in real time, and it’s…
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Our first print edition ships in two weeks.
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October 2025
Will AI solve medicine?
Some say AI will solve medicine within a decade. Others believe biology is far more complex than people imagine and AI will hit the limits of clinical…
Oct 29
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss
Episode eight of the Works in Progress podcast is about the politics of the Abundance movement
Oct 24
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Sam Bowman
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Pieter Garicano
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The genius of the amateur
The greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who can take a fresh perspective
Oct 22
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Laura Lungu
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Alvin Djajadikerta
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The art of protein design with AI
Watch now | Scientists are using AI to hallucinate entirely novel proteins that could transform medicine, agriculture, and materials science
Oct 15
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Works in Progress
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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What makes Joel Mokyr great
His Nobel is a triumph for history and the importance of ideas
Oct 13
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Anton Howes
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Chinese dams hold billions of people to ransom
Could desalination make them irrelevant?
Oct 9
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Connor Tabarrok
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What's new in biology: October 2025
Safer transplants, new antibiotics, the rise of paper mills, long-term flu protection, slowing down ageing, and more.
Oct 2
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Niko McCarty
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Saloni Dattani
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Hacking proteins with AI
AlphaFold, ProteinMPNN and other tools are transforming drug design, but how do they work, and can we use them to create a strep A vaccine for the very…
Oct 1
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Works in Progress
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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Making antibodies as ubiquitous as aspirin
If antibodies were cheaper, they could prevent millions of deaths from rabies, malaria, and dengue.
Oct 1
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Alex Telford
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September 2025
How traffic modernism ruined cities with Nicholas Boys Smith
Episode seven of the Works in Progress podcast is about urban design
Sep 26
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Sam Bowman
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Ben Southwood
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Nicholas Boys Smith
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