British startup plans to supply solar power from space to Icelanders by 2030, in what could be the world's first demonstration of this novel renewable energy source ~space satellites Article 654 words, published Oct 24 2024 21 votes
CO2 turned into fuel: Japan’s scientists convert captured carbon into green fuel ~engineering Link 20 votes
Nuclear breakthrough (laser excitation of nuclei) could improve clocks/measurement and detect variance in currently-believed fundamental constants ~science physics Article 1196 words, published Aug 4 2024 23 votes
Scientists hail ‘smart’ insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real time ~health medicine Article 880 words 23 votes
How AI revolutionized protein science, but didn’t end it ~science biology.molecular Article 10 835 words, published Jun 26 2024 16 votes
Breakthrough in nuclear spectroscopy would lead to more accurate clocks ~science physics Article 1003 words 20 votes
TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough ~tech apple Article 665 words 29 votes
Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to forty-five minutes awarded Longitude prize – could herald sea change in antibiotic use by identifying correct treatments ~health medicine Article 764 words 26 votes
Scientists pinpoint driver of IBD and other disorders; work under way to adapt existing drugs ~health medicine Article 782 words 14 votes
Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer ~health medicine Article 7811 words 18 votes
Morning sickness breakthrough raises hopes of possible cure ~health Article 646 words, published Dec 13 2023 20 votes
Sweden's Northvolt says new lithium-free sodium-ion battery is cheaper, more sustainable and doesn't rely on scarce raw materials ~transport Article 606 words, published Nov 21 2023 49 votes
Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in extracting and sequencing RNA molecules from an extinct species, a century old Tasmanian tiger known as a thylacine ~science biology Article 321 words 16 votes
Kidney stone breakthrough procedure at UW called 'game changer' for patients ~health medicine Article 457 words, published May 10 2023 36 votes
Researchers use AI to read from 2000 year old Herculaneum scroll ~humanities.history Article 2209 words 12 votes
She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough. ~health Article 1576 words 37 votes
Tesla reinvents carmaking with quiet breakthrough ~transport Article 1314 words, published Sep 14 2023 25 votes
US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time ~science physics Article 271 words 80 votes
Superconductor breakthrough replicated, twice, in preliminary testing ~science Text 9 words https://www.tomshardware.com/news/superconductor-breakthrough-replicated-twice 48 votes
Scientists working to generate electricity from thin air make breakthrough ~tech Article 985 words, published May 24 2023 19 votes
Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published ~science biology medicine Article 806 words, published Jun 14 2023 29 votes
The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers ~health fitness medicine Article 2229 words, published Jan 4 2023 17 votes
Millions of Alzheimer’s patients have been given hope after a new drug has been shown to slow memory decline by 27% over eighteen months. It's the biggest breakthrough in a generation. ~health medicine Article 1219 words, published Nov 30 2022 8 votes
Death could be reversible, as scientists bring dead eyes back to life ~science biology Article 679 words 6 votes
Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time ~science medicine biology Article 641 words 19 votes
First pig-human transplant: A recap ~science medicine biology Video 24:56, published Jan 14 2022 4 votes
In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human ~science medicine biology Article 736 words 8 votes
RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice ~science biology Article 979 words 18 votes
How major media outlets screwed up the vaccine 'breakthrough' story ~health Article 2322 words 12 votes
Breakthrough male contraceptive pill derived from Chinese medicine ~science medicine.chinese Article 444 words 17 votes
What do you think is the next big technological breakthrough? ~talk Text 5 words Consumer, environmental, enterprise tech, etc. 37 votes
Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch ~science biology Video 11:04 2 votes
Black hole picture captured for first time in space ‘breakthrough’ ~space astronomy Article 1433 words 63 votes
The laughing gas parties of the 1700s — and how they sparked a medical breakthrough ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
The million-dollar drug: How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was thirty years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared ~science biology medicine Article 1242 words 19 votes
Musk promises manufacturing, self-driving, battery breakthroughs—and profits ~transport Article 1269 words 5 votes