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What's new in biology: July 2026

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Issue 24: How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism

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How p-hacking built the world's most expensive safety regime

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What's really slowing down the AI buildout

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Epidurals are miraculous

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The secret cause of the industrial revolution

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Why we should vaccinate wild animals

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Issue 24: Rats, The Glorious Revolution and the secret to ultra-Orthodox fertility

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Europe’s housing shortages are even worse than America’s

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What’s new in biology: June 2026

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How the Squamish built Senakw

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Good design is ruining American flags

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Cured in China

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The lost art of building cities

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How Japan stopped civil war

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How we learned what genes are made of

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Review: Recession by Tyler Goodspeed

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Inventing the second malaria vaccine with Katharine Collins

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America’s national style is hiding in plain sight

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Modern Hindu Temples

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