Notes

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 changed how we understand natural selection.

For centuries it was a poison. Then colchicine rewrote treatment for gout, heart disease, and later, the debate over drug exclusivity.

Airbus is an example of successful industrial policy and the rare European company that is better than its American rival. Could its success be copied elsewhere?

Why do some neighborhoods get garden squares and graceful streets, while others don’t? The answer isn’t zoning or taste, it’s who owns the land, and how unified that ownership is.

Keeping the grid stable requires overbuilding generating capacity, driving up costs. Batteries fix that.

Pedestrian tunnels are often thought to undermine urban life. The opposite happened in Toronto.

For nearly two centuries, pain relief meant effective but addictive opioids. Scientists have finally made something better.