Discoverer of Neural Circuits for Parenting Wins $3-Million Breakthrough Prize
Biologist Catherine Dulac netted one of four big life sciences awards. Also announced were one for mathematics and two for physics
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
Vote to unshackle clock time from its link to Sun is postponed to 2015
To unify the four forces of nature, physicists are turning to Lie groups, an approach famously resurrected in 2007 by a surfer-dude theorist
Buzz about a quantum gravity theory that sends space and time back to their Newtonian roots
Hořava gravity could explain missing spatial dimensions in a computer simulation
Radioactive clouds hung over villagers as China detonated nuclear bombs in the air for four decades
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