Yuri Milner
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My family and I left Russia for good in 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea. And this summer, we officially completed the process of renouncing our Russian citizenship.
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Julia and I are devastated by the horrific unprovoked attacks on Israel. To address the immediate needs of thousands of affected families, the Breakthrough Foundation is donating $5 million to the
@JewishAgency
to provide both emergency aid and longer-term rehabilitation.
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Setting the record straight - here are the facts about my connection to Russia:
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The Breakthrough Foundation is also giving $2.5 million to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center to provide trauma care for victims and their families, as well as additional ICUs, operating rooms and underground emergency hospital.
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Russia’s attack on Ukraine is also an assault on reason, truth and enlightenment, and its nuclear rhetoric is now putting all of humanity at risk. As Stephen Hawking warned us, our civilization must gain control of its aggressive instincts in order to survive.
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Julia & I have been deeply affected by the suffering of refugees from Ukraine. Today the Breakthrough Prize Foundation pledges $100m to the
#TechForRefugees
initiative, joining
@Airbnb
.org
@flexport
.org &
@Spotify
to help people forced to flee their homes.
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This looks like more evidence for the plausibility of the RNA world hypothesis. Scientists in Canada have used an evolutionary process to produce an RNA-synthesizing enzyme that also uses RNA as a template.
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In the wake of Saturday’s brutal assault on Israeli civilians, the Breakthrough Foundation is donating $2.5 million to
@Mdais
to help provide equipment for mobile ICUs, first responders and life support ambulances.
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Machine learning is beginning to change not only the progress of scientific discovery, but perhaps the nature of science itself.
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AlphaFold is a major milestone in science – and it’s just the beginning. The potential of AI to fuel scientific discovery is bigger than we can imagine. Congratulations to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper
@DeepMind
for winning the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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This could be an important finding. Some clusters of dark matter produce gravitational lensing effects up to 10 times stronger than current theories predict.
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Re-engineering the immune system to fight tumors is already saving the lives of patients with leukemia and other liquid cancers, and has great potential for treating more. Congratulations to Carl June and Michel Sadelain on winning the Breakthrough Prize for this remarkable…
Carl June and Michel Sadelain created CAR T immunotherapy, modifying the body's T cells to fight cancer. For this advance they are awarded 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
@MSKCancerCenter
@Penn
@PennMedicine
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Some positive news for human space travel. The brain re-organizes itself to some extent in microgravity, but there is no evidence of neurodegeneration.
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Less than a decade after CRISPR, another gene-editing system has been identified in bacteria and re-engineered to work in human cells.
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Congratulations to in reaching its initial goal of providing shelter to 100,000 refugees from Ukraine. Tech for Refugees will continue supporting them as they continue their critical efforts for victims of this terrible war.
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Julia and I launched the Breakthrough Foundation to support great science and inspire the next generation of scientists. So the Foundation is pleased to donate $2.5m to the innovative Science Gateway at
@CERN
, where the 1st
@brkthroughprize
ceremony took place 10 years ago.
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The tragedy of Russia’s senseless aggression on Ukraine is now a year old, and shows no sign of ending. Julia and I are heartbroken by the loss of life and humanitarian catastrophe it has unleashed.
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LIGO, black holes, time travel, how to get an “Executive Producer” credit…
@Brkthroughprize
winner Kip Thorne talking to
@seanmcarroll
is well worth your time.
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Another intriguing Enceladus result: a new model suggests that the moon’s subsurface ocean is likely to be rich in phosphorus, one of the key ingredients of life on Earth.
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Freeman Dyson was a Leonardo of our age, who thought hard about the far future and influenced every field he put his mind to (as well as being a valued advisor to the Breakthrough Initiatives).
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I believe humanity’s mission is to explore and understand our Universe. From RNA vaccines to protein design, from quantum clocks to algebraic geometry, the winners of the Breakthrough Prize are fulfilling that mission. Congratulations to them all.
Science is humanity’s superpower, and our 2022 laureates – Jeffery Kelly, Katalin Karikó + Drew Weissman, Shankar Balasubramanian + David Klenerman + Pascal Mayer, Hidetoshi Katori + Jun Ye, and Takuro Mochizuki – are real world superheroes.
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We need cross-pollination of ideas from many different scientific fields to understand and treat aging. Here researchers used techniques from physics to reveal a new structure of telomeres.
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Milner Global Foundation is joining
@collision
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@patrickc
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@paulg
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@reidhoffman
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@FionaMcK
and
@tobi
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@sacca
and
@crystale
as sponsors of Fast Grants, a new initiative to radically speed up the process of awarding science grants for COVID-19 to 48 hours:
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This jellyfish can live indefinitely. Scientists have now shown how it invests heavily in gene repair, slows cell division and prevents telomeres from breaking down.
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I am sorry to hear of the passing of Nikolai Kardashev. He was one of the guiding stars of SETI, and his classification of advanced civilization types is still highly useful. In his honor, let’s continue our efforts to answer the profound question, “Are we alone?"
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Many congratulations to this year’s Breakthrough Prize winners. And THANK YOU for advancing human knowledge and, in doing so, elevating all of us.
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“The era of the interplanetary cubesat has definitively dawned.” Interesting
@SciAm
piece on the potential for small-scale, low-cost space exploration.
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The
@NASAWebb
telescope will allow us to explore and understand ever more of our Universe – from its earliest galaxies to the exoplanets that could host life today. Thank you to all the curious and dedicated people who have made it happen.
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Congratulations to Jeff Bezos and everyone at
@blueorigin
on a perfect flight. Earth is just the starting point for humanity - the Solar System is the next frontier.
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With the discovery of a possible signature of life in the clouds of Venus, I am pleased to announce a new Breakthrough Initiatives research study investigating it. The possibility of finding life even in our own star system is very interesting.
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“There’s something particularly romantic about the idea of…artificial intelligence looking for extraterrestrial intelligence which itself might be artificially intelligent.” Andrew Siemion of
#Listen
and
@BerkeleySETI
on the new search for alien life.
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Many congratulations to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna. Fundamental science changes the world.
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Five years ago, Stephen Hawking and I launched Breakthrough Listen. Today, thanks to Listen and our partners at
@UCBerkeley
and around the world, it is breaking new ground in pursuit of one of those “big questions” that meant so much to him: Are We Alone?
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Science not only predicts the future, it also brings the deep past back to life. In a group of 18,000 metal-poor stars, astronomers may have found the remains of the core from which the Milky Way emerged.
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This is an exciting development: scientists in the Czech Republic have designed a nanoparticle that works as a universal, non-toxic transporter of DNA and RNA into cells.
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DST Global donates $3.5 million dollars to humanitarian initiatives launched by
@MilaKunis
and
@Aplusk
. Funds will benefit and to support relief effort for Ukrainian refugees:
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Quantum information is one of the most exciting fields in physics. It’s great to see 4 of its originators, Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch and Peter Shor, win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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I hope these funds will help alleviate the impact of the disastrous war on Ukrainian scientists.
Among millions of civilians fleeing Ukraine, there are many scientists - vital for the country’s (and the world’s) future. The
@brkthroughprize
Foundation has donated $3 million to help them, with $1 million allocated in partnership with
@theNASEM
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Happy 90th birthday to Frank Drake, a hero of science. He helped make perhaps one of the biggest questions - Are we alone? - first an object of respectable scientific study, then a serious experimental program, and eventually an entire thriving field.
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DNA mutation may be far less random than assumed. A clever experiment shows that it depends on how many cell types the gene is expressed in, as well as epigenetic factors.
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Steven Weinberg was not only a giant of modern physics, but a true scientific leader. He inspired so many of us, inside and outside science, to try to understand the Universe we live in. My deep condolences to all who knew him.
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Even if we’re not alone, most life in the Universe may be wildly different from us. So it’s essential that the search includes unconventional possibilities – maybe even hydrogen-based life in molecular clouds, floating in star-forming regions of space.
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The “habitable zone” keeps expanding. A new study posits that subglacial water on exoplanets, especially around M-dwarf stars – the most common stars in the cosmos – could offer a home for life .
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This is remarkable: filmmakers turn 400,000 images released by
@ESA
into movie about the Rosetta mission to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Austrian filmmaker Christian Stangl combined some of the more than 400,000 images taken by
@ESA
's Rosetta mission into a stunning short film: "the Comet."
Together the images show details of Comet 67P, which Rosetta followed and researched for 2 years:
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Surprisingly, there are parts of Antarctica which seem to lack microbial life entirely. Perhaps cold, arid habitats beyond Earth are also hard for life to gain a foothold in.
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This seems very promising. Yale scientists showed that a combination of mRNA vaccine and boosting agent administered via a nasal spray protects successfully against both Covid and SARS.
Vaccines that reduce infection & disease are needed to combat the pandemic. Here,
@tianyangmao
@BenIsraelow
et al. describe our new mucosal booster strategy, Prime and Spike, to induce such immunity via nasal delivery of unadjuvanted spike vaccine 🧵 (1/)
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There will come a time when our civilization will mean far more than the inhabitants of Earth. Congratulations to
@richardbranson
@virgingalactic
on leading the way.
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More evidence of the power of CRISPR technology: a new CRISPR test rapidly and accurately detects Covid-19 and other RNA pathogens.
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The next generation of telescopes may enable us to search for industrial pollution on distant exoplanets.
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There is no hard line between mathematics and the rest of science - because our Universe is mathematical. Physicists have used trapped ions to experimentally measure the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.
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Along with the appalling loss of life, a year of war in Ukraine significantly damaged the country’s science community & institutions. That is why the
@Brkthroughprize
Foundation partnered with national academies of science in the US & worldwide to support Ukrainian researchers.
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4 years after Stephen Hawking and I launched Breakthrough Listen to search for signs of civilizations beyond Earth, it has released to the public over a petabyte of data, including observations of over 1000 stars across billions of frequencies.
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Results from Israel are confirming the remarkable efficacy of Covid vaccines. This should be celebrated as one of the triumphs of modern science.
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Researchers at Caltech have developed an updated version of the Drake equation, incorporating new knowledge about potential habitats beyond our planet.
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Only together can humanity find out if we’re alone. Today Breakthrough Listen joins forces with
@UniofOxford
and its world-class scientists to create its new international headquarters in Oxford.
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Very sad to learn of the passing of Murray Gell-Mann - one of the greatest theoretical physicists in a century that boasted more than a few greats.
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When repairing damaged DNA, how do cells locate the correct sequence so fast? New research shows how a molecule called RecA reduces the number of search dimensions from 3 to 2.
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Julia and I were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Angelika Amon, 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences laureate. Her fight against cancer may have come to an end, but the knowledge of the disease that she gave us could help humanity to eventually overcome it.
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This is impressive. CERN scientists have developed an antimatter “trap” that can be used to transport the substance to other facilities without it annihilating.
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Weapons of mass destruction could be the Great Filter that destroys advanced civilizations. We have not found any extraterrestrials so far, which puts an even greater responsibility on us to avoid this fate.
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Fascinating. A meteorite that landed 50 years ago contains stardust 7 billion years old - far older than the Earth.
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A new model of early Mars suggests that the planet has water, with a thick atmosphere. The case for life in the history our neighboring planet gets more and more compelling.
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’Oumuamua was only the first of many interstellar visitor detections, which promise to vastly advance our knowledge of planetary formation across the galaxy.
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Julia and I are deeply saddened by the news about Frank Drake. He was one of the great scientific pioneers of our age, and an inspiration to all of us to look beyond the horizon to the Universe that created us, and perhaps others.
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A big day for Breakthrough Watch, our optical search for primitive life on nearby exoplanets. NEAR, a new instrument developed with
@ESO
, is now asking an important question: are there ex-oplanets around our nearest sunlike stars, Alpha Centauri A and B?
Today we are announcing “first light” for NEAR, a new infrared coronagraph built by Breakthrough Watch and
@ESO
for the VLT, which could spot new exoplanets in the Alpha Centauri system. Read more at .
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A new set of organic molecules has been found on Mars – plus a new way to find them.
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Humanity’s reach into the quantum realm gets ever more impressive. Physicists at Oxford put two atomic clocks into an entangled state, and in the processs improved their precision.
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“It’s like ‘Star Trek.’ It’s the age of exploration again.” Biologists are using adaptive optics developed in astronomy to create unprecedented moving images of cells in living tissue.
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“If life evolved somewhere else, that buys you about ten billion years of time.” Breakthrough Prize winner Gary Ruvkun talks to the
@NewYorker
about evidence for migration of life in the Universe.
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Have LHC physicists found something big again? Either way, we are lucky to live at a time when humans can ask questions this deep.
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New research shows that the more eccentric the orbit of a Jupiter-like planet is, the more habitable an Earth-like planet in the system becomes.
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Observations of interactions between a nebula and a young galaxy suggest that 80-90% of the Universe’s normal matter is likely to lie outside of galaxies.
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Good decision from the
@NSF
: the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is renamed after the great Vera Rubin, whose discoveries about the astrophysics of galaxy rotation led physicists to dark matter.
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UNICEF’S efforts for refugees worldwide are invaluable. Tech For Refugee will support their programs, helping to bring vital educational assistance to children affected by the war in Ukraine.
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There’s another planet in the star system next door. Let’s make sure interstellar missions like
#Starshot
can pay a visit within the next generation.
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Frank Drake had the courage to ask a big, but unfashionable question – “Are we alone?” And by making it rigorous, he founded a new and vital scientific field. Breakthrough Listen and the SETI community at large will miss him.
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A new study using organoids has identified a molecular switch that makes human brains grow much bigger than our closest relatives.
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The Universe is full of wonders to be explored. Experiments on Earth suggest that nano-scale diamonds rain down inside ice giants like Uranus and Neptune experience.
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My first US home was
@Wharton
, and Israel was also a home for Julia and me. So we’re pleased to announce the Israel MBA fellowship. We hope it will allow students to gain from the first-class Wharton experience and bring that knowledge back to Israel.
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Saturn's moon Enceladus may have pristine organics on its surface – could they be accessible to space missions in the coming years?
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Congratulations to Simon Brendle on winning the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements in differential geometry, expanding our understanding of smooth manifolds.
Congratulations to Simon Brendle
@Columbia
, who wins the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his transformative contributions to differential geometry.
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50 years on, I’m still inspired by the Moon landing - and by the boundless Universe that awaits our next steps.
50 years ago today, people around the globe gathered at their radios & televisions to join two humans as they landed on the Moon for the first time. As they took one small step, a giant leap was accomplished. Relive and understand this
#Apollo50th
moment:
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Every day science brings new gifts for humanity. Thanks to gene therapy, this 11-year-old boy in the U.S with genetic deafness can now hear.
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It’s an amazing thought that black holes were once just an idea, then a theoretical model, but now - thanks to this year’s
@brkthroughprize
winners, the
@ehtelescope
collaboration - we can actually look at one.
We’re pleased to announce that the
@ehtelescope
collaboration has won the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Congratulations to the entire team, across 60 institutions and 20 countries.
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Searching the protoplanetary disks of young stars, the
@almaobs
telescope has found “significant reservoirs” of large organic molecules that form the basis of life on Earth.
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This is an impressively sensitive experiment – using torsion balances to measure the gravitational attraction between objects just 2mm in diameter.
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Carl June and Michel Sadelain won this year’s Breakthrough Prize for their invention of CAR T cell therapy, which has shown impressive results against some major liquid cancers. Now scientists have discovered a mechanism that could help extend their range to solid tumors.…
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Congratulations to Svante Pääbo, the winner of
@Brkthroughprize
in 2016 on winning the
@NobelPrize
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It’s good to see more funding going to the search for civilizations beyond our planet.
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The first Fast Radio Burst ever detected in our galaxy looks likely to originate from a magnetar. But can magnetars explain the most distant and powerful bursts?
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The frontiers of physics are not just at the quantum scale and the cosmic scale. There are regular breakthroughs in the study of even well-known substances, such as new magnetic effects in these “ambidextrous” crystals.
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A sample from an asteroid collected by Japan’s Ryugu probe suggests that water delivered by asteroids to the early Earth already contained organic molecules and salt. Was it a starting kit for life?
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The world needs Ukrainian science, and Ukrainian science needs the world’s support. It’s an honor to collaborate with American, British and European academies of sciences on this important and timely initiative.
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Can we find the meaning of life by looking beyond Earth? wonders Avi Loeb of
@Harvard
and the
#BreakthroughInitiatives
. And could others out there help us find it?
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Carl June and Michel Sadelain won this year’s Breakthrough Prize for developing CAR T cell immunotherapy, with remarkable impact on liquid cancers. Now the discovery of a 'kill switch' for cancer cells could significantly extend its effectiveness to solid tumors.…
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We are one civilization, stepping out into the cosmos. It’s encouraging to see nations coming together in a spirit of exploration.
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Humanity should know how many potentially habitable exoplanets there are in our stellar neighborhood. That’s why the Breakthrough Initiatives and
@sydney_physics
are launching the next phase of the Toliman program.
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Gravitational waves will soon offer a range of new tests of Einstein’s general relativity at large scales.
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