Young Slovak talent wins top prize at world’s largest high-school science fair Nineteen-year-old Adam Kovalčík from Dulovce in southern Slovakia has earned global recognition by winning the ...

MrBeast plans to turn the success of his Amazon Prime Video reality competition series into millions of dollars for charity.

Two UT Austin physicists were part of a collaboration that won the Breakthrough Prize for work at the Large Hadron Collider.

Three Harvard professors were awarded 2025 Breakthrough Prizes, one of the most prestigious prizes in science, on April 5. Awarded annually, the Breakthrough Prize, often referred to as the ...

His latest accolade, announced last April, is the most lucrative in all of science: a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, worth $3 million, in recognition of ’t Hooft’s myriad ...

By Ashley Lan This year’s Breakthrough Prize—popularly known as the “Oscars of Science”—brought the world’s leading scientists together with Hollywood’s top stars to celebrate their ...

That the Breakthrough billionaires can throw a Hollywood ... And Rebecca Jensen-Clem, one of the astronomers who won a physics prize, is funded in part, by NASA. Meanwhile the Carnegies of a ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and Facebook, named UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Rebecca Jensen-Clem and former ...

A Canadian researcher has won a 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering the GLP-1 hormone used in diabetes and obesity medications — including Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro ...

The annual Breakthrough Prize was created more than a decade ago by Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and other Silicon Valley tech moguls to honor scientists for their great achievements in science ...