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

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The dismissal of the National Science Board is the latest in a string of erratic decisions that are destabilizing not only the National Science Foundation, but all of American science. Whatever the ...

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An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is planning to hold a hearing on Thursday, Jan. 22 to discuss the progress the National Quantum Initiative Act has made since it was signed into law ...