At $3 million each, the Breakthrough Prizes - sometimes referred to as the “Oscars of science” - were founded by Sergey Brin; Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg; Julia and Yuri Milner; and Anne ...

Ellen Sidransky ’77, a clinical geneticist and pediatrician at the National Institutes of Health, has won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her discovery of a common genetic risk factor ...

On Thursday, the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health released updated final guidance for its Breakthrough Devices Program, aimed at verifying medical devices on the market are safe and ...

The Breakthrough Device Program is approaching terminal velocity. The Food and Drug Administration, looking to accelerate access to innovative devices, has now labeled nearly 700 products as ...

The word breakthrough carries a kind of weight: It’s a dramatic step forward, a critical advance in science or technology. But in the context of the Food and Drug Administration’s breakthrough devices ...

We tested dozens of EVs to find out which ones are true breakthroughs, and which are also-rans. These are our Editor's Choice picks. Welcome to the 2026 edition of the InsideEVs Breakthrough Awards, ...

It’s a weird year to be covering EVs, and a weirder one to be giving out awards. 2024 has been defined by both EV excitement and heightened uncertainty as automakers backtrack from their lofty initial ...

Breakthrough Season 1 is a documentary series that delves into the behind-the-scenes of the world of scientific technology and innovation. It was produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and released ...