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After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

This year’s Breakthrough Prize—popularly known as the “Oscars of Science”—brought the world’s leading scientists together ...

More than 13,500 scientists who have worked on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, have been awarded the ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. The current president should not be considered for the ...

This year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries — ...

Congratulations to our author, Gerard 't Hooft, one of the world’s most pre-eminent theoretical physicists, on being awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! He is known for ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, seen by some as the Nobel of mathematics, for his contributions to algebraic ...

Science Bridges launches Predict The Prize 2025, a global competition where high school and undergraduate students predict ...

The Partiet Sentrum, a Norwegian political party, faced backlash after it nominated incarcerated former prime minister and ...