The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

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Have you ever wondered about the world around you? Like, why the sky is blue, or why people act the way they do? There are two big ways we try to understand these things: through physical science and ...

Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll loves his subject, and dreams of a world where everyone shares his passion. “People have opinions, after all, about supply-side economics or critical race theory,” ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics ...

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A teacher in Virginia uses a micro-controller to connect a computer to a keyboard, allowing kindergarten students to play musical notes that are triggered when they high-five their classmates. In ...