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Roundtables: Unveiling the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2025

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The Download: feeding the world with poop, and 2024’s performing stories

Is it possible to really understand someone else’s mind? November 2023 Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you must lie... Read more »

Green steel: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Hybrit, a technology developed by  the steelmaker SSAB, the mining company LKAB, and the energy company Vattenfall, uses a similar process to make green steel. LKAB is now constructing a plant in... Read more »

Robotaxis: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

If you live in certain cities in America or China, you’ve probably spotted driverless cars dropping off passengers. Perhaps you’ve even ridden in one yourself. That’s a radical change from even three... Read more »

Stem-cell therapies that work: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

WHO California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Neurona Therapeutics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals WHEN 5 years A quarter-century ago, researchers isolated powerful stem cells from embryos created through in vitro fertilization. These cells, theoretically able... Read more »

Fast-learning robots: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Now, roboticists have made major breakthroughs in that pursuit. One was figuring out how to combine different sorts of data and then make it all useful and legible to a robot. Take... Read more »

Cleaner jet fuel: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

All the world’s planes consumed roughly 100 billion gallons of jet fuel as they crisscrossed the planet in 2024. Only about 0.5% of it was something other than fossil fuel. That could... Read more »

Cattle burping remedies: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Meanwhile, startups like Blue Ocean Barns, Rumin8, and Symbrosia are developing, testing, or seeking approval for products derived from a type of red seaweed, which could reduce methane levels even further. Still... Read more »

Generative AI search: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

But Google’s global search dominance makes it the most important player, and the company has already rolled out AI Overviews to more than a billion people worldwide. The result is searches that... Read more »

Long-acting HIV prevention meds: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

Scientists and activists hope that the story will be different for lenacapavir. So far, the FDA has approved the drug only for people who already have HIV that’s resistant to other treatments.... Read more »