Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated
Ten entries. Published in the May 2005 issue, not January/February. No availability field. Forward timings from body text are in entry notes; they are often a quoted person's prediction. Read through a summarising fetch; medium confidence.
An Internet in the sky could let planes fly safely without ground controllers.
rank 1mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-001
Wires spun from carbon nanotubes could carry electricity farther and more efficiently.
rank 2mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-002
Making the material of computer chips emit light could speed data flow.
rank 3mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-003
A new diagnostic tool could mean spotting diseases earlier and more easily.
rank 4mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-004
The promise is a 3-D view of the molecular world.
rank 5mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-005
Nanotubes make possible ultradense data storage.
rank 6mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-006
Overhauling a microbe's metabolism could yield a cheap malaria drug.
rank 7mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-007
Computer forecasts enhance farm production and species diversity.
rank 8mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-008
Wireless devices catch bad code through the air and infect secure computer systems.
rank 9mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-009
Mating robotics with the nervous system creates a new generation of artificial limbs that work like the real thing.
rank 10mit-tr-10-breakthrough-2005-010