Hungary's Peter Magyar took his oath of office on Saturday to become the country's new prime minister, ending Viktor Orban's ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners were announced Saturday (April 18) as the red carpet opened at the annual gala in Los Angeles, a globally broadcast ceremony often dubbed the "Oscars of Science," ...

The winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics, UC Santa Barbara’s David J. Gross was cited for “a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, from the strong force to string ...

The Breakthrough Prize ceremony was hosted in Santa Monica on Saturday night. A mix of actors, musicians, and billionaires attended and walked the red carpet. Robert Downey Jr. was one of the ...

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced physicist David J. Gross, of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring ...

Celebrities, scientists and CEOs attended the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The event, which dubs itself as the Oscars of the sciences, honors prize winners ...

A-listers came out for the annual “Oscars of science” — the Breakthrough Prize ceremony — on Saturday night where stars and scientists aligned. Anne Hathaway, Robert Downey Jr., Zoe Saldana, Ben ...

Breakthrough Energy, the Bill Gates-backed group that bankrolls climate tech, has stopped making new investments from one of its key funds to scale up nascent green technologies, just as the market ...

In November 2024 a canopy on a Serbian railway station collapsed, killing 16 people. The most likely cause of the shoddy workmanship was corruption. Huge protests erupted, and independent journalists ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ianalumab has received the FDA’s breakthrough therapy designation for Sjögren’s disease. Novartis plans to ...

A man waves the Uganda flag at opposition leader Bobi Wine’s final campaign in Kampala ahead of the country’s January 2026 election. Badru Katumba/AFP via Getty Images When he was first sworn in as ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing this year’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies It’s easy ...