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Jun 12, 2025 - Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial in its transformation.

Gateway Project idles while politicians dispute progress

This week: LOL vs. Girl in Progress, two films about teenaged girls' rebellion and the moms they love to disdain.

Nov 26, 2025 - It was once legal to build almost anything, anywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the West banned densification.

Learn about the formation and monitoring of the largest icebergs in recorded history.

Explore why the climate change grassroots movement differs from civil rights activism and why elite leaders may play a crucial role.

Sep 18, 2025 - Systems thinking promises to give us a toolkit to design complex systems that work from the ground up. It fails because it ignores that systems fight back.

Essential business intelligence for Zambia and Malawi entrepreneurs. In-depth insights, market trends, and actionable strategies for growth.

Mar 27, 2025 - Prediction markets are legal, contrary to popular belief. But they remain unpopular, because they lack key features that make markets attractive.

Mar 28, 2025 - Ending acid rain was one of humanity's greatest environmental successes. Here's how it happened.

We viewed the original Kennedy program for Latin America (Alliance for Progress) with a good deal of scepticism, but welcomed the proclaimed ideals behind it....

Nov 26, 2025

A study from General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) measured zero trust maturity in federal agencies since the Executive Order on Improving the...

Sep 18, 2025 - We disinfect water before we drink it. Why don’t we disinfect the air before we breathe it?

Apr 9, 2025 - New York's skyscrapers soar above a century-old steam network that still warms the city. While the rest of the world moved to hot water, Manhattanites...

Progress magazine is a showcase of the interdisciplinary, impactful research taking place here in the School.

Nov 13, 2025 - Works in Progress is a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world. It was founded in 2020, and is now a part of Stripe. We are interested in...

Even though women are entering law schools in larger numbers than men, there is evidence that women lawyers are still underrepresented.

Trains magazine offers railroad news, railroad industry insight, commentary on today's freight railroads, passenger service (Amtrak), locomotive technology,...

Jan 20, 2025 - Google’s path to 24/7 clean energy

Jun 16, 2025 - Lead has been all but eliminated in most of the developed world. Doing the same for the rest of the world might not be difficult.

Military satellite acquisition has come a long way in the last 10 years, but there is still room for improvement, said Cristina Chaplain, a director of...

Trains magazine offers railroad news, railroad industry insight, commentary on today's freight railroads, passenger service (Amtrak), locomotive technology,...

Initial planning has begun for bomber retirements, but the game plan depends largely on progress in fielding the B-21.

FRA releases first quarter 2019 positive train control progress for US railroads

Mar 27, 2025 - We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.