Richard Feynman was a man for all ages. He didn't fit the mold of a science nerd, and he excelled at teaching and giving ...

Max Planck revolutionized physics with quantum theory and championed doubt as the driving force of scientific progress.

China is closing the quantum gap with the U.S., and the next breakthrough could reshape encryption, defense, and energy.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross warned humans could only have 35 years left on Earth due to the growing risks of ...

Zhores Alferov, a Belarusian-born Nobel Prize laureate, initially set his sights on journalism, but a failure at school pushed him toward physics, which became his life’s calling.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross has issued a stark warning that humanity stands a slim chance of surviving another 50 years, citing the grave risk of nuclear war as the primary barrier ...

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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 ...

For generations, the world’s top universities have represented far more than just elite education. They have become global ...

The Breakthrough Foundation named Albert Maguire of the Class of 1982 and David Gross, a 2004 Nobel laureate in Physics and Princeton’s Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics, Emeritus, as ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Three US scientists with strong ties to the University of California have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments that demonstrated quantum physics in action on a chip, ...