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Two UC Berkeley faculty, a UCLA physicist and a UC Santa Barbara Nobel laureate were awarded Breakthrough Foundation prizes ...

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The University of Manchester is celebrating a second consecutive year of success at the Breakthrough Prizes, with Manchester physicists again recognised for their leadership in one of the most ...

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

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A new method reveals hidden order in quantum systems, potentially transforming how they are measured and used.

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New research shows how the organization of electrons can reshape how a material responds to light, opening previously ...

Albert Maguire '82 and Emeritus Professor David Gross won marquee Breakthrough Prizes for outstanding scientific discovery, ...