Science
Research breakthroughs and the scientific background needed to understand them.
Battery recycling
CATL
Flow batteries
Iron-air batteries
Sodium-ion batteries
Solid-state batteries
Batteries and energy storage tracker
How close are solid-state batteries?
How grid-scale energy storage works
LFP vs NMC: the battery chemistry split
ARC-AGI
Artemis program
BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage)
BioMADE
Cell-free protein synthesis
CERN
Chang'e lunar program (China)
Commercial space stations
DeepSeek-R1
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument)
Direct air capture (DAC)
DNA synthesis order screening
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)
ECMWF AIFS (Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System)
Electron ptychography
Enhanced rock weathering
Enzymatic DNA synthesis
Extreme ultraviolet lithography
Future Circular Collider (FCC)
Genesis Mission (US AI-for-science initiative)
Ginkgo Bioworks
GNoME (Graph Networks for Materials Exploration)
Google DeepMind
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
JCVI minimal cell (syn3.0 and syn3A)
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
METR
Muon g-2 experiment
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Nickelate superconductors
Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells
Precision fermentation
Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Self-driving labs (autonomous laboratories)
SpaceX Starship
Synthetic yeast genome project (Sc2.0)
Topological insulators and topological materials
Twist Bioscience
Twisted bilayer graphene and twistronics
Vera C. Rubin Observatory
WeatherNext (GraphCast, GenCast)
AI for science tracker: milestones and what to watch
Climate science and carbon removal tracker
Materials science frontier tracker
Particle physics and cosmology tracker: milestones 2024-2026
Space exploration tracker: milestones, launches and discoveries
Has AI discovered new materials? The debate over GNoME and A-Lab
Why biomanufacturing still fails at scale-up
The DNA synthesis screening policy debate
The Hubble tension and evolving dark energy: is cosmology broken?
Signs of life beyond Earth: how strong is the evidence?
After the LHC: the debate over the next big collider
Perovskite solar: ready for rooftops, or still a lab record?
Do reasoning models really reason? The debate over their limits
Room-temperature superconductors: how close, and how to tell?
AI for science in 2026: a crash course
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
How 2D materials work: graphene, stacks and twists
How frontier AI capabilities are measured
How AI designs new proteins, drugs and materials
How AI predicts protein structures
How AI weather models work
How biomanufacturing works
How advanced chips are made
How climate models and attribution science work
How DNA synthesis and assembly work
How exoplanets are found, and how we look for signs of life
How genetic circuits work
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
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
Synthetic biology in 2026: a crash course