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Breakthrough Prize

David Hertzog with Muon g-2 storage ring at Fermilab

Physicists share the glory and the wealth after winning $3M for exploring muon mysteries

Breakthrough Prize goes to University of Washington professor — and hundreds of other researchers — for decades of work on Muon g-2 experiments. Read More

Protein design and physics earn UW professors a pair of prestigious Breakthrough Prizes

Researchers at the University of Washington working on both protein design and the understanding of gravity have been awarded the… Read More

Black hole in M87

Black hole portrait wins Breakthrough Prize for Event Horizon Telescope’s team

What’s $3 million divided by 347? That’s the math problem to be solved by the physicists on the Event Horizon… Read More

Zuckerberg and Milner at Breakthrough Prize

Breakthrough Prizes award $22M for new therapies, new materials, math and more

The program known as the “Oscars of Science” has revealed who’ll be getting the spotlight — and almost $22 million in… Read More

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

51 years after discovering pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3M Breakthrough Prize

British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell missed out on a share of the Nobel Prize for her part in the discovery… Read More

WMAP map of cosmos

Breakthrough Prize ceremony shines glitzy scientific spotlight on cosmic mappers

This year’s Breakthrough Prizes, cast as the “Oscars of Science,” are going to genetic engineers, disease fighters, math whizzes — and… Read More

Black hole merger

Breakthrough Prize program awards $25 million to a dream team of researchers

A program that’s richer than the Nobels rewarded more than a dozen researchers tonight with Breakthrough Prize awards amounting to $25.4… Read More

European Extremely Large Telescope

Breakthrough Watch: Alien-hunting effort takes telescopic aim at Proxima Centauri b

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – A multimillion-dollar campaign to look for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations has added telescopic observations of the nearest known… Read More

LIGO Hanford

Gravitational-wave detection earns LIGO scientists a $3 million Breakthrough Prize

This year’s revelations about gravitational waves are certain to win someone a Nobel Prize someday, but an even richer prize… Read More

Enter the Breakthrough Junior Challenge for a chance to win a free ride through college

This is an incredibly cool contest with an awesome prize — and what Priscilla Chan is calling a chance to… Read More

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