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• Categorized in Culture

  10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

  Here are our picks for the advances to watch in the years ahead—and why we think they matter right now.
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

  By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

  Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.
• Categorized in Business

  AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

  Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us.
• Categorized in Policy

  Europe’s drone-filled vision for the future of war

  Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of annihilation.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

  From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology.
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

  Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment.