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Rosa Rademakers accepted the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering the most common genetic cause of both ALS and frontotemporal dementia. In her acceptance speech, she highlighted the devastating impact of these diseases on speech and behavior and emphasized the hope that genetic research offers for developing treatments.
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05 Nov 2026
At the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, Artist Jeff Koons expressed his appreciation for the scientists honored and highlighted the importance of giving them support and recognition.
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03 Nov 2026
At the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, James Corden joined YouTube sensation Mark Rober, who live demonstrated how to create a cloud using liquid nitrogen and boiling water.
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02 Nov 2026
Grace Guo earned the title of Popular Vote Regional Champion for North America in the 2025 Breakthrough Junior Challenge. In her video entitled The Gut-Brain Axis: Do We Have a Second Brain?, she explores how the gut and brain communicate, and explains the role of the vagus nerve, gut microbes and neurotransmitters in this connection. Grace also examines how the gut-brain connection could open new possibilities for understanding and treating mental health conditions.
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29 Oct 2026
At the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck joined leading figures from science and the arts to celebrate groundbreaking discoveries and the brilliant minds behind them.
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28 Oct 2026
John Elkann, Chairman of @ferrari and @stellantis_official and CEO of Exor, expressed how meaningful it was to attend the Breakthrough Prize, describing it as a global gathering of inspiring minds.
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27 Oct 2026
Media personality and entrepreneur Paris Hilton, alongside best-selling author and M13 co-founder Carter Reum, joined a star-studded evening at the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony to celebrate scientists whose groundbreaking work is advancing the frontiers of science.
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25 Oct 2026
Rachel Mathews earned the title of Popular Vote Regional Champion for Australia and New Zealand in the 2025 Breakthrough Junior Challenge. In her video Topological Insulators, she explains how electrical resistance causes energy to be lost as heat and explores how topological insulators can conduct electricity with zero resistance. She also examines spin-orbit coupling and topology, exploring how these phenomena could help improve computing efficiency.
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23 Oct 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and software engineer Oliver Mulherin were among those gathered at the 2026 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony to honor scientists whose work is expanding the frontiers of physics, life sciences and mathematics.
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21 Oct 2026
Swee Lay Thein of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, accepted the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for research that transformed sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia from incurable conditions into treatable ones through gene-editing therapy. In her acceptance speech, she reflected on her journey and its 20-plus years of challenges, while emphasizing the need to make these breakthroughs accessible to the millions still without treatment.
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19 Oct 2026
Reflecting on the gradual and collaborative nature of scientific discovery, Henry Maxfield, 2021 New Horizons in Physics Prize laureate, emphasizes that progress does not always come through giant leaps, but through small steps that can open the door to new possibilities and reveal new landscapes to explore.
15 Oct 2026
Dr. Bryan Traynor, 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences laureate, reflects on the honor of receiving the prize alongside co-winner Rosa Rademakers and the many colleagues, patients, and families who made their discovery possible. He notes that identifying a gene linked to neurodegeneration is an important step, but there is still much to uncover about how these mutations lead to neuron death. For Dr. Traynor, the ultimate goal is to turn these discoveries into treatments and, one day, a cure—bringing hope to patients and their families.
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15 Oct 2026
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