Those dire wolves aren’t an amazing scientific breakthrough. They’re a disturbing symbol of where we’re heading. ~science biology Article 1557 words 35 votes
New breakthrough in AI cancer detection is pushing accuracy levels to an unprecedented 99% ~health medicine Article 407 words 23 votes
US Food and Drug Administration clears sepsis test that significantly reduces life-or-death risk by shortening identification time ~health medicine Article 1647 words 16 votes
Scientists induce endosymbiosis for first time in lab, a crucial step necessary for complex life ~science biology.micro Article 1697 words 10 votes
Engineers achieve quantum teleportation over active internet cables ~tech internet Article 589 words 17 votes
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 medicine 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 in the US ~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