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

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The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most ...

Scientists working on the Askaryan Radio Array, an extremely large neutrino detector buried around 200 meters (656 feet) ...

William Shatner hailed space as the final frontier while starring as Captain Kirk in Star Trek. Sixty years later, during an ...

William Shatner hailed space as the final frontier while starring as Captain Kirk in Star Trek. Sixty years later, during an ...

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The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could ...

We spoke to a genuine astrophysicist about the accuracy of Star Trek's approach to interstellar travel, the holodeck, and the ...

Discovery of superluminal correlations within 2D hexagonal boron nitride could advance super-resolution electron microscopy ...

For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of the ...