Not all breakthroughs are created equal. Some arrive more or less as usable things; others mainly set the stage for innovations that emerge later, and we have to estimate when that will be.

Here is our annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Plus: why predictions matter and how to get better at them. It has fueled prosperity of the last 50 years. But the end is now in sight.

A research team from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has developed transparent ...

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VEIR, founded by MIT alumnus Tim Heidel, has developed technology that can move more power over long distances, with the same footprint as traditional lines. The startup has introduced a ...

For the past decade, disordered rock salt has been studied as a potential breakthrough cathode material for use in lithium-ion batteries and a key to creating low-cost, high-energy storage for ...

US companies and industry experts are worried they’re losing their decades-long lead in the race to master this ...

Engineers have long known that traditional aerodynamics models, used to design the blades of wind turbines and propellers, ...

It's not something we need to work on within a 10-year time frame. For the next few weeks ... and I decided to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to pursue a PhD in Physics in 2023.