Tag: Breakthrough
Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump Destroy
Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump DestroyThe billionaires behind Facebook and Google can do more than hand out glitzy...
Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard ’t Hooft Says Quantum Mechanics Is ‘Nonsense’
In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The Dutch theoretical physicist, now a...
Breakthrough Prizes Awarded to Obesity-Drug Pioneers and Large Hadron Collider Physicists
Obesity-Drug Pioneers and Large Hadron Collider Physicists win $3-Million Breakthrough Prizes
Advances recognized by science’s most lucrative awards include high-energy physics experiments and groundbreaking...
Dennis Gaitsgory Wins Breakthrough Prize for Solving Part of Math’s Grand...
The Langlands program has been described by mathematician Edward Frankel as the “grand unified theory of mathematics.” Conceived by Robert Langlands in 1967,...
Google Makes a Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Quantum computers are a little like librarians: both abhor noise.Compared with their classical counterparts, quantum computers are finicky and need a serene environment...
A Science Breakthrough Too Good to Be True? It Probably Isn’t
In 2014 astronomers announced a whopper of a discovery: primordial waves from the earliest moments of the big bang. The South Pole telescope...
experts hail breakthrough in bid to save native bird
Desert National ParkIn its latest judgment, the court observed that people had the right to be free from the harmful effects of climate...
Scientists Map Fruit Fly Brain, Breakthrough For Human, Animal Insights
<!-- -->The researchers identified the full set of cell classes in the fruit fly's brain.Washington: Scientists announced on Thursday a milestone in neurobiological...
