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Unorthodox, brash, and sometimes controversial, Flagship Pioneering is looking for its next blockbuster.

Tackling the UK’s productivity problem will require long-term public investment in quality education aimed at closing the skills gap and boosting equality – a plan the 18th-century economist Adam Smith would certainly have agreed with.

A research team with MIT has unveiled a functional superconducting diode design that enables never-before-seen efficiencies and that's easily manufacturable, opening up the door for more power-efficient electronics.

A new material discovered through research from the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center promises to create the first strain-tunable materials - materials that adjust their electronic properties according to how bended or stretched they are. High impact is expected in the industries of robotics, electronics, and sensors.