More like a breakthrough for Big Brother.
Not even that. It's just the typical breathless reporting of "Advances" from the UK, usually Medical, that either have been around for years, or will never be heard of again. It makes them feel better, in between Yank Bashing, which accomplishes the same thing.
Read the Daily Mail online for a few weeks, and see what I mean.
A quick search on terahertz imaging shows the extent of the "Old News" nature of this silly report.