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Frontier science from a garage

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Welcome to June 28, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The capital stack that once gated a novel compound — a lab, a team, a institution — collapses to one person, an agent and a liquid handler. Discovery stops being rate-limited by who you work for.

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2026-08-16: An auto-research loop finds a 232-fold kernel speedup

2026-08-13: A neurosurgery resident cracks a two-decade-old conjecture in sixteen hours

2026-07-24: A graduate solves six open Erdős problems at a 46% hit rate

2026-07-22: A $200 billion research budget is redirected toward individuals and AI

2026-07-05: A startup reorganizes itself as a fab that builds fabs

2026-07-01: A virtual heart turns a deadly drug into its safe twin in three hours

2026-06-28: A lone researcher synthesizes a novel Alzheimer's compound in a garage lab

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Frontier science from a garage
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