Something like Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, but more focused on the invention of the Ansible or the simultaneity thing.
Or (spoilers for Interstellar) >!how in Interstellar they found that new formula for gravity but more focused on the fictional science.!<
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Here are some!
* Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham, a classic about anti aging treatments.
* We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker. This author has such an easily readable writing style. About the invention of brain-enhancing implants.
* Synners by Pat Cadigan, the invention of brain-computer interfaces.
* Autonomous by Annalee Newitz, about a particular innovation in pharmaceuticals, but to say what would spoil it.
* Rule 34 by Charles Stross, near future Scottish police mystery. I can’t say anything about what the invention is without spoilers, but don’t be put off by the title!
* Accelerando by Charles Stross, far future with time skips showing technology advancing to an incredible degree.
* The Snow Queen trilogy by Joan D. Vinge. The second and third book explore the implications of a particular technology, >!faster than light space travel without relativistic effects!<
* The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. This is very much a love-it-or-hate-it book, and how you feel will depend on whether you can tolerate the ruthless and unlikable main character, a scientist who invented cloning where you grow a clone to adulthood in a short period of time.
Circadian Algorithms is about a new medical procedure that reduces the need for sleep (with various side effects)