As for the prospect of a scientific breakthrough, she doesn't hold out much hope.

Their scientific breakthrough has the potential to improve soil health and conditions, and create far more productive yields for global farmers.

This was a scientific breakthrough and a propaganda coup.

Achieving a scientific breakthrough tends to require an element of personal sacrifice, normally in the form of late nights in the laboratory crunching data.

But it's also, in a way, a tale to puncture humanity's hubris, as the scientific breakthrough they need to reach their destination planet proves elusive.