They would travel trillions of miles; far further than any previous craft. A $100m (£70m) research programme to develop the computer chip-sized “starships” was launched by the bi... Read more
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur and investor, attracted some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names to join him in starting a life sciences prize this year. Now, he has wooed a titan from C... Read more
A preference for recent advances Tech investor Yuri Milner, who shook the physics world two months ago by dishing out $27 million to the nine inaugural awardees of his Fundamental Physics Pr... Read more
To jump start things, in he stumped up $27m for nine prizes. IN THE late 1980s, while working on a PhD thesis in the fiendishly complicated maths of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the... Read more