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How to redraw a city

The magic of through running

Issue 19: American S-Bahn

Lenacapavir: can this drug end AIDS?

New podcasts: Hard Drugs and the Works in Progress Podcast

Gentrification as a housing problem

How the world's first electric grid was built

Why child benefits should be front loaded

The beauty of concrete

The world of tomorrow

The End Kidney Deaths Act

Computers of the future

Why we stopped building subways cheaply

The bad science behind expensive nuclear

From the vault: Animals as chemical factories

One simple deregulation that would save thousands of lives

NIMBYism and how to resolve it

The wonder of modern drywall

From the vault: Getting materials out of the lab

Making American milk safe

Nuclear reactors for dummies

From the vault: Everything drugs

From the vault: How ships escaped the great stagnation

What's new in building beautifully

From the vault: The evolution of psychiatry

An 80,000-year history of the tomato

The purpose of a building is how it looks

Why skyscrapers are so short

What's new in biology

From the vault: Fertility on demand

The dysfunctional tiger

The Spanish grid collapse

The fewer the merrier

From the vault: The future of silk

Write for Notes in Progress

The secret liberalization of animal drugs

The discovery of copper

The breaking of Britain's National Grid

From the vault: The failure of the land value tax

Another reason housing in Texas is cheap

Invisible College: Applications close on 28th April

570 million Frenchmen

Join our events in your city

How DC densified

A syllabus for nuclear power

From the vault: Chinese towers and American blocks

Pieces we would like to commission

The prehistoric psychopath

From the vault: Womb for improvement

A walk down Victoria Street

Legalizing the condo

Apply for Invisible College 2025

How Airbus took off

Good drug news

From the vault: King of fruits

Where's my winter robot chauffeur?

The value of technological progress

Issue 18: Urbanism with Chinese characteristics

Flipping the switch on far-UVC

A review of Charles Piller’s Doctored

The prophet of parking

A writing fellowship on scientific progress

Snakebites, Pig Hearts, and More

We can still build beautifully

From the vault: Why housing shortages cause homelessness

Should we give babies the vote?