The Breakthrough Prizes are prestigious awards given annually in the fields of Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics to recognise groundbreaking achievements in science.

06 May 2025

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach. Bringing gravity into the fold has been the ...

05 May 2025

A theoretical study by RIKEN physicists, published in Physics Letters B, has accurately determined the interaction between a charmonium and a proton or neutron for the first time.

01 May 2025

Researchers in the University of California, Irvine’s Department of Physics & Astronomy were among thousands of scientists from 70 countries to share in the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics ...

01 May 2025

In the vast ocean of existence, a silent dance pulses through every particle, every atom, every breath. This dance is ancient and eternal. In the heart of modern physics, scientists discovered the ...

05 May 2025

That is, until now. In a groundbreaking scientific experiment, a team at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering managed to teleport a particle through around 18 miles of public ...

05 May 2025

Light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, challenging traditional wave-particle thinking.

04 May 2025

In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and delivered a speech that would echo through the next century. He outlined 10 — and ...

06 May 2025

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space‑time. Until now.

05 May 2025

Exactly 100 years ago, famed Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (yes, the cat guy) postulated his eponymous equation that explains how particles in quantum physics behave. A key component of quantum ...

06 May 2025