Browsing: Breakthroughs

People who greet the new year with hope, ambitious plans and optimised gut microbiomes might be obnoxiously apparent at the moment, but we all know they’re…

The Roman sage Marcus Aurelius said we should never let the future disturb us. But then he never had a conversation with the futurologist Nick Bostrom…

During her tenure as director general of the World Health Organization, Dr Margaret Chan used to say that all of the “easy” antibiotics had already been found.…

Just a small fraction of our 20,000 genes can cause disease when disrupted – yet that sliver accounts for thousands of rare disorders. The difficulty is:…

Part of the IBM Quantum System Two computer.Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via GettyClaims of leaps in quantum computing are made almost daily, but progress is hard to…

November 25, 20252 min readU.S. Launches Apollo-Style Mission to Harness AI and Big Data for Scientific DiscoveryA new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by…

We Just Discovered the Sounds of Spacetime. Let’s Keep ListeningLess than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten…