Batteries and energy storage tracker
A dated timeline of battery and energy storage milestones from 2024 to October 2026: prices, solid-state, sodium-ion, grid storage and trade policy.
Science & Energy
Energy, climate, space and physics: the research and the missions changing what we know.
Battery critical minerals
Lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and vanadium: the minerals batteries depend on, China's grip on refining, 2026 price spikes and export controls.
Battery recycling
How lithium-ion battery recycling works as an industry: feedstock, China's capacity lead, EU recycled-content rules and why volumes lag until the 2030s.
Everything in Science & Energy
CATL
Flow batteries
Iron-air batteries
Sodium-ion batteries
Solid-state batteries
Can battery supply chains diversify away from China?
How close are solid-state batteries?
How grid-scale energy storage works
LFP vs NMC: the battery chemistry split
Artemis program
BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage)
CERN
Chang'e lunar program (China)
Climeworks
Commercial space stations
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument)
Direct air capture (DAC)
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)
Electron ptychography
Enhanced rock weathering
Frontier (carbon removal buyers' coalition)
Future Circular Collider (FCC)
Helion Energy
High-temperature superconducting fusion magnets
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
ITER
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and High-Luminosity LHC
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors
LK-99: the room-temperature superconductor that wasn't
Mars Sample Return
The Materials Project
Metamaterials and metasurfaces
Muon g-2 experiment
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
National Ignition Facility (NIF)
Nickelate superconductors
Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells
SpaceX Starship
Stellarator
Tokamak
Topological insulators and topological materials
Twisted bilayer graphene and twistronics
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Wendelstein 7-X
Climate science and carbon removal tracker
Fusion energy tracker: milestones toward fusion power
Materials science frontier tracker
Particle physics and cosmology tracker: milestones 2024-2026
Space exploration tracker: milestones, launches and discoveries
Can carbon removal scale credibly? The 2026 debate
When will fusion power reach the grid? The 2026 debate
The Hubble tension and evolving dark energy: is cosmology broken?
Signs of life beyond Earth: how strong is the evidence?
Moon race or science? The fight over NASA's priorities
After the LHC: the debate over the next big collider
Perovskite solar: ready for rooftops, or still a lab record?
Room-temperature superconductors: how close, and how to tell?
Solar geoengineering research: the debate in 2026
Carbon budgets explained: how much CO2 is left for 1.5 °C
Climate science and carbon removal in 2026: a crash course
Climate tipping points: coral reefs, AMOC, ice sheets and the Amazon
Dark matter and dark energy, explained
Batteries and energy storage in 2026: a crash course
Fusion energy in 2026: a crash course
Fusion's engineering wall: tritium fuel and neutron-proof materials
How 2D materials work: graphene, stacks and twists
How climate models and attribution science work
How exoplanets are found, and how we look for signs of life
How fusion works
How global warming is measured: temperature and key indicators
How lithium-ion batteries work
How particle colliders work
How perovskite solar cells work
How rockets reach orbit, and why reusability matters
How space telescopes work, and what Webb, Roman and Rubin each do
How superconductivity works
How the Standard Model of particle physics works
Magnetic vs inertial fusion: the main ways to confine a plasma
Materials science in 2026: a crash course
Particle physics and cosmology in 2026: a crash course
Space exploration and astronomy in 2026: a crash course