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Life-Changing Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Wins $3-Million Breakthrough Prize
A trio of scientists who developed the combination drug Trikafta are among the winners of five major awards in life sciences, physics and mathematics
Zeeya Merali is a freelance writer based in London and author of A Big Bang in a Little Room (Basic Books, 2017).
A trio of scientists who developed the combination drug Trikafta are among the winners of five major awards in life sciences, physics and mathematics
DeepMind’s system for predicting the 3D structure of proteins is among five recipients of science’s most lucrative awards
Physicists have devised a mind-bending error-correction technique that could dramatically boost the performance of quantum computers
The physics Nobelist and author has not exactly found religion—but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped looking
Pioneers of mRNA vaccines and next-generation sequencing techniques are among the winners of science’s most lucrative awards
Biologist Catherine Dulac netted one of four big life sciences awards. Also announced were one for mathematics and two for physics
A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality
The Event Horizon Telescope team is one of six winners of the Breakthrough Prize, which covers physics, the life sciences and mathematics
The Breakthrough awards, each worth U.S. $3 million, honor advances in the life sciences, physics and mathematics
Image joins 13 other winners in lucrative Breakthrough Prizes
Gravitational wave data show tentative signs of firewalls or other exotic physics
Breakthrough awards announce winners in physics, life sciences and mathematics
A cunning experiment plugs loopholes in previous demonstrations of quantum "spookiness," a concept that galled Einstein
A physics-based, “atavistic” model posits that cancer is a “safe mode” for stressed cells and suggests that oxygen and immunotherapy are the best ways to beat the disease...
“Constructor theory” unites in one framework how information is processed in the classical and quantum realms
The notion of an "event horizon," from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, Hawking says
Force-carrying "gravitons" with mass could help to explain the universe's accelerating expansion
A technique that hides rapid data streams could provide ultrasecure communications
Ultracold atoms pave way for negative-Kelvin materials
Encoded photons sent a record distance along busy optical fibers
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