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Seven technologies to watch in 2023

Nature’s pick of tools and techniques that are poised to have an outsized impact on science in the coming year.
  1. Michael Eisenstein

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A NASA engineer examines JWST mirror segments at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s 6.5-metre primary mirror (6 of 18 segments shown) can detect objects billions of light years away. Credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham

From protein sequencing to electron microscopy, and from archaeology to astronomy, here are seven technologies that are likely to shake up science in the year ahead.

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Nature 613, 794-797 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00178-y

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