breakthrough
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The aim: Find promising opportunities in breakthrough therapies and emerging technologies across the U.S. and Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“It does feel like we’re on the verge of something new. There’s a breakthrough that’s about to happen,” Henderson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Years of UN-sponsored negotiations failed to produce a breakthrough.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The breakthrough established that neutrinos were real, but detecting them remained an enormous challenge.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
His greatest breakthrough came because he was prepared to spend immensely tedious hours sitting at a screen counting alpha particle scintillations, as they were known–the sort of work that would normally have been farmed out.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Others made their breakthroughs in state and local politics.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Paturi: These breakthroughs extend the frontier of research, but I believe shaping that frontier and moving it forward remain within human capacity and creativity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Such fundamental tests have a long history of advancing scientific understanding and contributing to technological breakthroughs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Many experts, from Microsoft to McKinsey, have pointed to materials-science breakthroughs as a key way in which AI could help cut emissions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Nanotechnologists literally seek to arrange atoms, and could, Drexler wrote, trigger the greatest technological breakthroughs of all time.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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