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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: April 21, 2026.
A 60-year multigenerational collaboration measured the muon's magnetic moment at 127 parts per billion — 30,000 times more precise than the 1965 baseline — revealing a persistent deviation.
Scientists behind Casgevy — the world's first CRISPR-based medicine — and Luxturna, the first gene replacement therapy to restore sight in children, were honored at the April 18 ceremony.
The Nobel laureate's discovery of asymptotic freedom, made in 1973, provided the theoretical cornerstone of quantum chromodynamics and completed the Standard Model.
The 2011 finding that a single hexanucleotide repeat expansion causes both diseases reshaped neuroscience and has since driven multiple clinical trials.
Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, and Katherine High accepted the million prize for work that restored sight to patients with RPE65 mutations and opened the modern era of genetic medicine.
Mathematician Hong Wang and collaborator Josh Zahl proved that rotating a needle through all orientations in three dimensions requires a certain minimum volume — resolving one of the most stubborn open problems in harmonic analysis.
Frank Merle's decades of work on nonlinear evolution equations — showing how chaotic waves eventually decompose into stable forms — earned him the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
The UC Santa Barbara physicist who co-discovered asymptotic freedom and built quantum chromodynamics into a pillar of the Standard Model received one of the largest individual science awards in the world at a Santa Monica ceremony Saturday.
Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared the $3 million prize for identifying the fetal hemoglobin switch that made the CRISPR therapy Casgevy possible — the first gene-editing treatment ever approved by the FDA.
Three generations of scientists at CERN, Brookhaven, and Fermilab shared the $3 million prize for measuring the muon magnetic anomaly to 127 parts per billion precision, with tantalizing hints that new physics may lurk beyond the Standard Model.