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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
