...Satisfactory brought it back

The MAM is the research facility for unlocking all sorts of cool perks and extra things (zipline, blade runners for faster walking, a crude gun, etc). You'll be asked to the MAM during the tutorial. There are multiple research trees, and each requires you to collect (and/or craft) various pre-requisite items.

A key theme here is collecting items you'll find whilst exploring out in the wild; Power Slugs, Somersloops, Mercer Spheres - and remains of each kind of animal after killing them. You'll need many of each.

It's also worth collecting as much Caterium, Quartz and SAM as you can, as early as possible - as the refined outputs of these are needed in some quantity to complete many of the researchable items.

You'll get Curiosity killed the cat... for the first tree you complete, and then this achievement will unlock once you've done all the rest. This will take much of the game playthrough to collect enough of the items needed - but its worth keeping an eye on it all the way through and researching what you can when you can so there's no need for catchup at the end.