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Energy, materials, and the long-horizon research behind tomorrow.
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Fusion Startups Promise Power by 2030. The Physics Says Maybe.
The funding is real and the milestones are closer. The hardest part is still the plasma.
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A New Battery Chemistry Could Cut EV Charging to Six Minutes
Lab results are dramatic. Manufacturing at scale is the trillion-dollar footnote.
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Room-Temperature Superconductors: Another Retraction, Another Lesson
Extraordinary claims keep meeting ordinary peer review. The field learns anyway.
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The Grid-Scale Battery That Runs on Iron and Air
Cheap, heavy, and stationary — exactly the tradeoffs the grid can accept.
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CRISPR’s Second Act Is About Delivery, Not Editing
We can cut the gene. Getting the scissors to the right cell is the hard part.
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Desalination Got Cheap Enough to Change the Map
Membranes improved quietly for a decade. Then the economics tipped.
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The Telescope That Will Photograph Exoplanet Weather
Not whether they exist — what the skies over them actually look like.